Wafflings of a Cozmonaught

Thirteen Reasons Why  (2007) written by Jay Asher - I couldn't give two hoots whether a book "romanticizes suicide" or "gives a voice to teens in need". I just care about if a story is good or not, and this book most certainly is not. So allow me to give you my own reasons why this book was horrible. Apologies for not making thirteen to fit the theme. Let's imagine that I stretched for anything to reach that magic number just like Hannah Baker did. #1 - The Narrative Voice sucks. Seriously. Could it be more boring? More grating? #2 - The Flow is awful. The protagonist constantly injecting his own dull and annoying thoughts into the tapes hurts an already schizophrenic structure. #3 - The Mystery is uninteresting. Some girl named Hannah killed herself. Okay? And I should care because...? That's an all right hook, but far from good enough to make me want to slog through 50k words of petty teenage drama. Homegirl, there are kids in Africa starving right now...