The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green-Book report Part 1

I thought this book was one of the best books I have ever read. The author who wrote this is Joshua Braff. He did an amazing job writing this. This book was easily one of the top 3 funniest books I have ever read in my life.

The book is about a young teenager named Jacob going through life in the 1970's in America. Jacob's dad is a Jewish man, who is very dedicated to church. Jacob doesn't like going through all of the traditions, but he respects his dad to much to tell him anything. Jacob's dad especially wants Jacob to participate, because Jacob is an amazing singer, and he is very good at reading the Tora. Jacob wishes he was like his older brother Asher, who is a popular rebel who totally disrespects everything having to do with his religion, and does whatever he wants. So Jacob goes through life wondering what to do about it. Through the book a lot of things happen. Jacob's parents get divorced, Jacob goes through school thinking about stuff the average teenager guy thinks about, (sports, classes, girls, etc.) and Jacob starts wondering about sex. Whenever something like this happens, there's always a funny twist.

One of the reason's I liked reading this book is because the author actually thought like an average teenager when he wrote this. A lot of times kids don't like going to church because we think it's boring, but we don't say it to are parents because we respect them to much. (Or we're just scared of them.) Either way, on the inside we usually want to rebel, and say 'Screw this, I have better things to do.' He also added some teenage humor, like when Asher went into Jew school and drew funny inappropriate pictures on the walls. It was almost like the story was like a memoir. I think the book was very good. I think everyone should read this.