#gray pete wentz

[heaveniowa]

gray - pete wentz // love from the other side - fall out boy

[iohera]

anybody have a pdf of gray i could download. wanna read it, but alas i am a broke college student and pete wentz doesn't need the money

[x-phonehome-x]

just found out my library has a copy of pete wentz’s book so i’ve got. a thing to do now

[frnkieroismydaddy]

I need a copy of Gray by Pete Wentz to read and another to annotate and chew on and cry into

[sarcasmandships]

re-reading gray by pete wentz and listening to northern downpour, it’s mental illness innit

[xxi0naxx]

[licdracuyalli]

Dear Lord, when I get to Heaven please let me bring my man...

Father tell me if you can.

[literallyscene4]

Pete Wentz/William Beckett book

While I was surfing around google, looking for a cheap listing of Gray (doesn't exist) I found references to a Pete Wentz/William Beckett book on like three different sites. Hilariously, the first reference to it I found was on the Blues Clues Wiki. Obviously, that sounds crazy fake. Upon further googling, I found earlier references. I thought at first that maybe this was some sort of draft of Gray as Gray kept popping up in google suggestions, but the Blues Clues (least reliable source) mentions them as separate entities. This blog references it once again and this blog claims to have an excerpt from the book. THIS site has a quote that reads “I've been following this book since it was supposed to be written with William Beckett,”. All in all, I'm VERY confused and have no clue about this seemingly canceled project? Was this really a first draft of Gray? What happened to William Beckett's chapters? Is this lost media?

EDIT: There is this excerpt from this Wordpress article:

“It’s called Rainy Day Kids,” explains Wentz. “It’s gonna be between 100 to 200 pages. It’s a lot different than The Boy With The Thorn In His Side. It’s closer to my true voice as a writer.” Wentz adoration for literature is tremendously evident due to the fact that he’s already begun collaborating on yet another book with best-friend/The Academy Is… singer William Beckett, whose band has been quite “the buzz” lately. “He’s one of my closest friends, so it’s rad to be involved with him doing any of that kind of stuff,” says Wentz fondly. “He’s a good kid. I love him.”

Chat, I this is in reference to the original scrapped version of Gray. William Beckett/Pete Wentz untitled book may be lost to someone's crappy old laptop.

[transbeamrooikat]

day 1 of cringetober - heterochromia :D

decided to draw mikey for this cause I realized he had heterochromia pretty soon after I first saw the cringetober post (or right before?) so he was the first person I thought of :3

[heaveniowa]

“you’re losing it,” they say, but I know I am, so technically speaking, I’m pretty sure I’m “giving it away,” not “losing it.” gray - pete wentz

[iohera]

so, gray

i like pete wentz, theoretically. i'm drawn to his lyrics because i think they're clever, self-aware, self-aggrandizing in a way that i find to be tastefully ironic and relatable. however, i think there's a difference between pete wentz (lyricist) and pete wentz (novelist). spoilers for gray (2013) ahead.

gray is not a good book. or, at the very least, i found it very difficult to enjoy. one, it crystallizes a misogyny from fall out boy's early lyrics in a much more detailed, virulent way that honesty made the novel difficult to get through sometimes. i don't think there's a single female character with a name throughout the entire book, and the way wentz writes about women conveys an inability (or disinterest) in seeing them a people rather than accessories to the narrator's life. this is most evident in the character Her. not giving her a name is a stylistic choice i can appreciate— only calling the character "Her" conveys that the narrator deifies her and puts her on a pedestal, stripping her of the fallibility inextricable from human nature. i wish the novel went literally anywhere with that theme, because it's good! instead, the ending seems to reinforce the narrator's view of her. it literally ends with him fantasizing about her as an angel waiting for him on the other side after she's suddenly died. the only interesting scene between a woman and the narrator was when he met ashlee simpson an unnamed hyperfamous celebrity party girl constantly bombarded by the paparazzi. i can't say that her portrayal was particularly nice, but i found their dynamic to be very compelling; she was someone who had her own desires, evident flaws, she made the narrator nervous and put him on his toes. the one chapter that she was in was the only point in the entire book where i was engaged in the relationship between the narrator and one of his many sexual conquests (each of which the novel takes great care to detail), because she was the only one who it felt like wentz was interested in empathizing with her point of view and the root causes behind her problems.

i would criticize the ending for having the main female love interest (who was treated very poorly by the narrator throughout the entire book) die for the sake of the narrator's character development, but i can't because his character never develops! this is the second major flaw in the novel; the characters are shallow, go nowhere, and not as interesting as pete wentz thought they might be. the toxic downward spiral of the narrator and Her's relationship might've been compelling if we knew anything about Her flaws as a person, because as it is it just makes the narrator look like entirely unsympathetic. main characters don't necessarily have to be sympathetic, but the story reads like "the narrator torments and manipulates this girl repeatedly until she kills herself, and then uses it to advance his own myopic self-pity"— which is as uninteresting as it is unsympathetic. it makes the structure of novel unbearably route; the narrator and Her get together, fall apart due to the narrator projecting his insecurities onto her, he goes on a drug binge and harasses her until they get back together and have sex, rinse and repeat. i think that wentz was going for meandering character study, a catcher in the rye type story, which for me did not work at all. for the record, i also dislike a catcher in the rye but can at least recognize that at the time it was published it was a unique look at teenage angst and depression— that type of miserable ennui is far less engaging when the narrator is 27. the narration itself is also just not very compelling— what makes wentz's lyrics good (clever, smug turns of phrase, florid descriptions of internal malaise) makes for insufferable prose.

i could go on. the side characters (who go by transparent pseudonyms for dirty, andy, and patrick), barely in the novel, who way more interesting than the main characters and "plot"; the sprinkling in of fall out boy lyrics reformatted as prose is bizarre and masturbatory; the constant, stagnant, mean-spirited pseudophilosophy that reads like baby's first misanthropy; etc, etc. there are things i liked about it— his descriptions of anxiety and addiction are raw and real, for example— but i cannot recommend this book to anyone. 2/5. go read the bell jar or even a catcher in the rye for a more competent version of the same thing.

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

have you seen her? now you have.

[frnkieroismydaddy]

It's Pete Wentz's world and we're all just living in it

[pisshandkerchief]

Far as I can tell, the Disaster is meant to be Dirty, Martin is Patrick, the Animal is Andy, and Joe is conspicuously lacking a stand-in. Also Her is Jeanae, from what I've read (although I'll admit I don't know much about her as a person, and the ending deviates quite drastically from reality in that regard)

I feel like some of this is wrong but I'm in no position to dispute it

[chaoswalking67]

Anyone else take about 5 minutes after waking up to realise that they are not in fact married to the famous man twice their age and/or the fictional character? Is it just me? Am I going insane?

[looselipssinkships-x]

If i had gotten my hands on this book when i was 19 it would have been over for me. I had not learned how to articulate or even identify gender envy but i would have latched onto pete wentz because there would've been something about that man that scratched my brain just right