![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s struggling to lose weight as well as find himself, because he has no friends and his family life is rocky. In fact, he only refers to himself as ‘Butter’, the cruel nickname handed to him after his classmates bullied him terribly. I’ve been wanting to read this book for a while so I’m glad that I finally got around to reading it, though I didn’t end up enjoying it quite as much as I was hoping I would.īutter follows to story of an obese boy who can’t see himself as anything but that. Lange allows readers to identify with both the bullies and the bullied in this all-consuming look at one teen’s battle with himself. ![]() But what happens when Butter reaches his suicide deadline? Can he live with the fallout if he doesn’t go through with his plans? Yet as their dark encouragement grows, it begins to feel a lot like popularity. What he gets are morbid cheerleaders rallying around his deadly plan. When he first makes the announcement online to his classmates, Butter expects pity, insults, and possibly sheer indifference. He is going to eat himself to death-live on the Internet-and everyone is invited to watch. And then maybe someday you’ll look in the mirror and see the same thing.”Ī lonely obese boy everyone calls “Butter” is about to make history. Memorable quote : “ If you just stop expecting perfection from everyone and everything, you might see the good stuff outweighs the bad. ![]()
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