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(3) Base Camp
When you first start reading Punkzilla, you might find yourself wondering why you shouldn't just read the Twitter feed of some wannabe gangsta who objectifies women and uses mad as an adjective a lot. Jamie's letters to P are so full of slang and run-on sentences that they just might leave you brimming with gratitude for P's ability to use a comma correctly when he writes back.
But Punkzilla is to young adult literature what Jackson Pollock is to fine art—it seems like something anyone could do, until you realize just how well-crafted (if not well-punctuated) it is.
In short, come for the compulsively readable narrative; stay for the outsider poetry.