Book It S Kind Of A Funny Story

It s kind of a funny story.

Book it s kind of a funny story. Lincoln award nominee 2009 goldener lufti 2008 main characters. In the early stages of the story craig discusses his small circle of friends his mostly typical childhood and his problems with stress and depression. Its kind of a funny story.

Rating 207 571 ratings. It s kind of a funny story is a 2006 novel by late american author ned vizzini. The novel is set in the present day and is narrated by craig gilner an incisive imaginative troubled fifteen year old who resembles vizzini himself.

The narrator craig gilner is 15 years old and lives with his family. A film adaptation directed by anna boden and ryan fleck was released in the united states on october 8 2010. His childhood is indeed described but how his childhood relates to his depression is left up to the reader s own interpretation.

But once craig aces his way into manhattan s. Ambitious new york city teenager craig gilner is determined to succeed at life which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. The book was inspired by vizzini s own brief hospitalization for depression in november 2004.

Parents need to know that it s kind of a funny story deals with teen depression and suicide and is based on author ned vizzini s five days in the adult psychiatric unit of a brooklyn hospital. It s the story of 15 year old craig a high school freshman who collapses under the pressures of a demanding school sexual desire jealousy and party drugs. It was released in the united states on october 8 2010 and received mixed to positive reviews.

This aspect of the novel may strike some readers as absurd since craig s comfortable life in manhattan bears few surface level similarities to a military lifestyle of any clear sort. Throughout it s kind of a funny story craig is addressed by an overbearing imaginary voice. Aaron nia craig gilner noelle.