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(More customer reviews)Days ago I read Shelf Life by the same author which although lacked much of a plot was a pretty entertaining and fun light read. Although The Passenger Seat has a lot more structured plot it certainly can not be classified as entertaining. I only persisted with it because I had read Shelf Life and thought this may get better as I turned the pages.
The Passenger Seat is the story of a two unpopular loser kids who have no real friends growing up other than each other so form a tight bond. Written through the eyes of the lesser loser Wires, he explains how they weren't the most intelligent or motivated at school and Bones the bigger loser of the two is also not opposed to shop lifting. The Passenger Seat follows the story of their primary school days, then their high school days where they meet another loser, this time a female called Shell. The rest of the book just outlines how the three of them get into graffiti, each others pants and stumble through life being friends and enemies at various times throughout. Give this a miss, read Shelf Life or Corbet's second novel Fifteen Love instead.
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Shell was the kick up the bum that Bones and me both needed. All of a sudden everything was an adventure again, like the time we first escaped from Central Avenue. Shell was a roly-smoking, law-breaking A-plus reject, and she had Bones and me going nuts for her right from the start.That was the hitch, basically. Because two's company, three's a maggot heap.The Passenger Seat is a story about friendship, sex and graffiti, about choice and destiny and the writing on the garage wall.
