Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion?...
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.
Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
JENNETTE McCURDYis the#1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died, winner of the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award. The book has been published in more than thirty countries and has sold more than three million copies. McCurdy is creating, writing, executive producing, and showrunning an Apple TV+ series loosely inspired by I’m Glad My Mom Died, star...
JENNETTE McCURDYis the#1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died, winner of the 2023 American Library Association Alex Award. The book has been published in more than thirty countries and has sold more than three million copies. McCurdy is creating, writing, executive producing, and showrunning an Apple TV+ series loosely inspired by I’m Glad My Mom Died, starring Jennifer Aniston. Half His Age is her debut novel.
So I guess attractiveness and attraction are different things. Maybe what I felt in the past was...appreciation, for a good physique or face or haircut. And maybe this is attraction. Something more primal, that makes less sense. (查看原文)
"Well, being harrowing doesn't automatically make writing good. Or impactful. It can bog something down. Make it heavy-handed. And actually, some of what you write is quite funny. Good writing has nothing to do with how tragic or not the facts of the story are. Good writing is in how you tell the story. In getting people to feel what you want them to feel when you want them to feel it. And I think that's the kind of writer you are." (查看原文)
It’s all about chaos, turmoil, endless list of wants. 这学期的tutorial结束后立马一天看完。总体而言我非常喜欢，McCurdy的文字辛辣，幽默，优美，并且收放自如。如果要量化我的评价的话我会给这本书打7.5/10。 据我对美国出版业的了解，近年这种师生题材的小说很受青睐，...
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0 有用 巴黎獭读书浣熊 2026-03-01 15:35:05 天津
女孩们的悲哀，是男孩对于我们来说太过幼稚，而我们对于男人又过于单纯。首部小说写成这样已经很到位了，全书可以看到Waldo的成长，心路历程拉满，真实可信。有一些床戏但是很节制，都是为人物服务。综评4.1⭐，多0.1给codenames😂
0 有用 懒小龟 2026-06-01 12:45:52 美国
好真实……
0 有用 illuminase 2026-06-30 13:04:54 上海
几个scene简直心理阴影
0 有用 Voodoo 2026-04-17 13:40:51 美国
为什么要叫男主Mr. Korgy，虽然不知道正确读法是什么，但我们满脑子都是Mr. Corgi（柯基无故风评受损）
0 有用 自愿悬置怀疑 2026-04-27 13:23:59 福建
“普通读者”播客推荐而来。老故事，新讲法，出乎意料的很有新意。笔法轻盈，读起来没有什么压力，而且会一直往下读（除了一些sex scene有些distasteful）。最后的反转很有力量，读完仿佛经历一场精神洗礼，自己也从莫名其妙的迷恋中解脱了出来，很有现实意义。也许可以算是“Z时代恋爱脑疗愈之书”罢。