ttyl

Released: April 1, 2004

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2.2

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ttyl Review

Item: ttyl Review
Rating: 2.2
Author: Alexandra and Chelsey

Alexandra and Chelsey December 10, 2011 Death of the Author Reviews, Reviews, Video

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Filled with outdated references and unlikable characters, ttyl is a look inside the mind of three teenage girls. Or is it?

Good

Clever idea

Bad

Horrible English
Forced chat speak
Dated
Dialouge feels unnatural

2.2

Awful

Plot - 1

Characters - 1

Setting - 1

Writing Style - 4

Enjoyability - 4

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Alexandra and Chelsey

Chelsey and Alexandra have been posting book reviews by text or video for over 5 years now. When they're not reading and writing reviews they usually have a fantasy project in queue that they're working on. You can also catch them around town at cons and expos once or twice a year.

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ttyl

Released: April 1, 2004

Audacious author Lauren Myracle accomplishes something of a literary miracle in her second young-adult novel, ttyl (Internet instant messaging shorthand for "talk to you later"), as she crafts an epistolary novel entirely out of IM transcripts between three high-school girls.

Far from being precious, the format proves perfect for accurately capturing the sweet histrionics and intimate intricacies of teenage girls. Grownups (and even teenage boys) might feel as if they've intercepted a raw feed from Girl Secret Headquarters, as the book's three protagonists--identified by their screen names "SnowAngel," "zoegirl," and "mad maddie"--tough their way through a rough-and-tumble time in high school. Conversations range from the predictable (clothes, the delicate high-school popularity ecosystem, boys, boys in French class, boys in Old Navy commercials, etc.) to the the jarringly explicit (the girls discuss female ejaculation: "some girls really do, tho. i read it in our bodies, ourselves") and the unintentionally hilarious (Maddie's IM reduction of the Christian poem "Footprints"--"oh, no, my son. no, no, no. i was carrying u, don't u c?").

But Myracle's triumph in ttyl comes in leveraging the language-stretching idiom of e-mail, text messaging, and IM. Reaching to express themselves, the girls communicate almost as much through punctuation and syntactical quirks as with words: "SnowAngel: 'cuz--drumroll, please--ROB TYLER is in my french class!!! *breathes deeply, with hand to throbbing bosom* on friday we have to do "une dialogue" together. i get to ask for a bite of his hot dog.'"

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Writer:Lauren Myracle

Genre:Bramance, Contemporary, High School, Humour

Publisher:Harry N. Abrams

Reading Level:Teen

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