Yea, James Franco wrote a book. If you don't know who he is, he's an actor whose been in a lot of movies: 'Spiderman', 'Pineapple express', 'Milk' etc. He's also up for a Golden Globe for '127 hours'. It's a compilation of stories told from the perspective of teenagers living in Palo Alto, CA. So far it's pretty good. The first story 'Halloween' is about a boy named Ryan who kills someone while drunk driving on his way to his girlfriends house. This isn't much of a spoiler because the story starts out 'Ten years ago, my sophomore year in high school, I killed a woman on Halloween.' This is an older Ryan telling the story, looking back on his troubled youth. The ironic thing is that Ryan and his friends attend a party where Ryan ends up cheating on his girlfriend, he leaves the party drunk and drives to his girlfriends house because he thinks she's cheating on him and he's angry about it. He never told anybody about what happened.
This story is kind of just disturbing because everything leading up to is just stuff that happens to teenagers and in their lives, and then he just ends up killing someone. Maybe it speaks to the irresponsible side in all of us. Before I got this book I read the review online, and one of the reviews said that it lacks general characterization. This story defiantly does lack characterization, but I think maybe Franco did that on purpose, because Ryan, the character in the story, probably represents a lot of teenage boys combined, and possibly even James Fracno himself, who grew up in Palo Alto.
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