these kids scare me. ( )

Poetic and haunting, but ultimately not a book I'd recommend to anyone - I only give it three stars because it is well written. However, I could not imagine an eight year old kid who was as intelligent as our narrator actually acting out his Oedipal urges in this way and his 12 year old friend who is a Marxist is just a bit over the top for me. If the kid had anything else besides a good vocabulary going for him, perhaps I would have had more empathy for him, but as a narrator he was totally unlikable. ( )