Daniel Handler is Lemony Snicket? So he switched names.

I read this because of Daniel Handler being Lemony Snicket but oh my god was it ever different. There was a great deal of underage drinking. It seems had there not been underage drinking, there might not have been a story. But I liked the concept, and the illustrations were really well done--even the ones of the condom wrappers which I must admit were kind of shocking because I didn't know the book would be like THAT when I started reading it. I don't know why so many people found the movie references hard to get. That was the point; only Min and her really good friends got them. Ed didn't, and Ed is the real reader. She just says how she feels and explains it with movie examples so don't have to know the movie to know what she's trying to say and that what's why I read this book to the end, but we're done now and you should know that's why we broke up.

I found it very hard to read, due to the old movie references. Good plot and ideas, but not well written at all. Kind of like Stephanie Meyer..... I reccomend this book to anyone who loves old movies or want a challenge, but it isnt my sort of book.

i actually found this book pretty boring. the movie references were hard to understand, and it didn't make sense a lot of times. not horrible, but not good either.

The main character makes frequent references to very old foreign movies to portray her emotions, so it is a little difficult to get a handle on how she is feeling throughout the book. The story, though, is very cute, relatable, and very laid back. May require a little extra patience if you're used to reading drama-packed, fast-paced books.

OMG, this is a cute and funny book about why a couple broke up. Min has kept a box of things from her relationship with Ed, the most popular and hottest guy at school. But they break up, so as she drives to his house with her best friend Al to drop off the box of stuff she collected she is writing Ed a letter about why they broke up which includes each item in the box and how it played a hand in their break-up. So cute, so very real and relate-able for everyone. We have all had that relationship that just did not work out and always kept the stuff we got through out the relationship with us, I would have loved to have been able to do this to a past boyfriend at that age, but I never had the guts to do anything like this, just cried myself to sleep instead!!

I am a fan of the Lemony Snicket books, and I enjoyed this book. Overall, it was nothing too exciting, but very cute and somewhat fun to read. The illustrations were enjoying to look at while reading the accompanying story that went with it. But as a whole, the stories together were lackluster. I think Daniel Handler is funny and clever, so I think his little movie references are cute but tiresome. I think if you're looking for an easy and careless read, if you can manage getting through all the fake movie references, and if you like a little teenage comedy/romance then you might love it.

What's with all the bad reviews!?!? I loved, loved, loved this novel. I read it in one sitting. The concept was creative, the art amazing, and the writing beautiful. I also still can't believe this is from the same author who wrote the Series of Unfortunate Events books, or that it was even written by a guy at all. Throughout the novel, I always believed she was a real girl. I can't wait to read other books by him now.

I liked the concept, I did, honestly, before I really started reading, with the illustrations and and epistolary format all. But the story itself, I thought it could have, well, been more interesting, more developed characters, more reasons to sympathize, at all, with the narrator. But, reader, what I really hated was the prose style, the narrator's voice, the run-on sentences with excessive descriptions to the point of boredom, the awkwardly interrupted and punctuated lines, that actively repelled me from reading, and that's why we broke up.

I found this book to be painfully boring and lackluster.