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This is the funniest novel I've read since Boonville, also one of the pithiest. I've only reviewed one other book on Amazon, Lopsided, a similarly hilarious and insightful memoir about surviving breast cancer. Just as you don't have to have breast cancer, or even be interested in such a morose topic, in order to love that book, you need not be a Deadhead to be totally enthralled by this one. Or so I think. Being a Deadhead, I can't know that for a fact, but I'd be willing to bet my ample tie-dye collection on it. Try it. The only time you'll put this book down is when you drop it while falling out of your seat in laughter!


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Freaked J T Dutton Books Reviews

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the writing style and the descriptions. The writer had such a great way of summing characters up in one phrase. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of the Grateful Dead or to anyone who is not and never could see what the fuss was about. This book gave me a new appreciation for people who I thought were nothing like me.
The main character of Scottie is a unique and constantly suprising invention. If you love The Grateful Dead then you'll love this book; however, I'm not much of a fan of the Dead and I STILL loved it--for its language, its wonderfully creative plot, and again, for its incredible main character, whose puzzled meditations on drugs, family, and friendship strike close to the bone.There's humor and insight on every page. Highly recommended for young adults and adults.
The Catcher in the Rye meets Freaks and Geeks . . . and they go to a Grateful Dead concert together. This book is funny, powerful, and best of all, real. I WAS Scotty Loveletter once, and no doubt some part of him still lives on inside me.

This book gave me a chance to relive my teen years - and I loved every second of it. By the ending of the novel I was left with a kind of bittersweet sense of loss - knowing I can never go back to those days myself, but content with the knowledge that this book exists and so, in a way, now I can.

I would recommend this book to anyone with a sense of humor and an understanding of how music moves us, shapes our world, pushes us to become something more than who we are. I would have loved a book like this as a teen but I love it, anyway, as an adult and I urge you, no matter who you are, to give yourself a chance to love it, too.
The year is 1993. Scotty is a sophomore at an elite Connecticut boys' boarding school. He is facing expulsion. The other boys tease him because his mother is a famous sex therapist. To cope, he smokes dope and drops acid. He idolizes Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. The story centers on a bad trip (literally and drug-induced) to a Grateful Dead concert for which he does not have a ticket; however, he does have a .45 caliber handgun.

Dutton's narrative is strong, but the book is full of clichés (e.g., last-chance prep school full of delinquent and unloved rich kids; dumb jocks; and socially inept nerds), and pre-personal cell phone cultural references that will be lost on fourteen-year-olds. All Scotty wants is to be loved by a real family; however, his is whiney and unsympathetic. Freaked is more of a baby-boomer memoir of acid trips and following the Dead than a contemporary young adult novel.
Scotty was sent away to Stillwater, a boarding school for boys, so that his mom could spend more time on her book and focus on speaking about the sex lives of others.

Scotty just wants to have a normal family a mom who cares about him, a dad who isn't changing every few years, and maybe even a sibling or two. However, he's stuck with knowing that all of the boys at his school fantasize about his mother - and might even be able to see her nude, if she goes ahead with her photoshoot plans.

Though he might not have a family to rely on, Scotty can always turn to Jerry from The Grateful Dead in times of need. On Parent's Weekend, Scotty finds himself forced into a car with a gun by his roommate, Todd, and they are off to the Freedom show!

FREAKED has a really good premise and I definitely enjoyed the characters. Music plays a main part in this novel, as it gives Scotty an outlet, along with drugs, to truly feel and express his emotions. Most of the story is Scotty's past memories and thoughts on life, which were interesting, but I was also waiting for more to happen throughout the book.

Overall, though, this is a coming-of-age story that has a lot of life truths.

Reviewed by Lauren Ashley
This is the funniest novel I've read since Boonville, also one of the pithiest. I've only reviewed one other book on , Lopsided, a similarly hilarious and insightful memoir about surviving breast cancer. Just as you don't have to have breast cancer, or even be interested in such a morose topic, in order to love that book, you need not be a Deadhead to be totally enthralled by this one. Or so I think. Being a Deadhead, I can't know that for a fact, but I'd be willing to bet my ample tie-dye collection on it. Try it. The only time you'll put this book down is when you drop it while falling out of your seat in laughter!