Reviews for Essie and Myles

The average rating for Essie and Myles based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-07-09 00:00:00 Charles Brogan This book had all of the elements of a story that I find to be dull: golf, teenage boys checking out teenage girls, teenagers "rediscoverying their potential," father-son stories, and the nice nuclear family going through hard times. Bleah. This story is about a Gardner, a boy who does nothing with himself all day, and is disappointed in his own lack of interest in all topics from exercise to reading his impossible stacks of library books. On the side, his father is going through a mid-life crisis, and plays profusive amounts of golf while making feeble attempts to find a job in yet another month of unemployment. And then, from the out of the blue comes a girl named Annie, who mysteriously turned beautiful and sexy since moving from Gardner's town, but has since moved back. However, Gardner only hangs around the edges of Annie's perception and waits in a line of boys that wants to go out with Annie. I figured that the story would somehow pick up (this hope grew feebler as I made it halfway through book), but it never does. It is intensely dull the whole way through with a message of "don't wait for your life to pick up, just seize the day!" I could find better prose in a rap song on the radio.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-07-22 00:00:00 G Horsley "You and Dad both have a problem in the focusing and following-through departments ... you come up with a new delusion every week but you don't act on a single one." Gardner wants to change his ways: become more goal oriented and follow through on his ideas. After he sees his father struggle with being unemployed and not being motivated to find another, Gardner realizes that life requires a little effort and a lot of heart.