Currently, I am about 80 pages into the book It's Kind of a Funny Story, a young adult novel written by Ned Vizzini. Although it is too soon to form a solid opinion about the book, I think the portion I have read of it is pretty good. It is about a teenager named Craig Gilner who is suffering from depression and eventually gets admitted to a psychiatric hospital after the stress of attending an elite Manhattan high school gets to him, leading to a suicide attempt. The book is very well written, and it is very interesting that the author wrote the book after spending five days in a psychiatric hospital himself. While I wouldn't quite recommend it yet due to not being far enough along in the book, I do not think the book is terrible by any means. It's Kind of a Funny Story draws you in with its interesting choice of words and keeps you turning page after page. In conclusion, the book It's Kind of a Funny Story is a decent book.
When I read this book, I felt that it helped me to understand teenage depression a bit better as well as life in a psychiatric ward.
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