Will Grayson, Will Grayson By John Green and David Levitihan Can you even imagine being at high school and having your incredibly giant and incredibly gay best friend writing a musical with you as a feature character? This is the reality that faces Will Grayson #1 in the book Will Grayson, Will Grayson, a cute piece of gay teen fiction which looks at the very different lives of two teenagers who share the same name. The book is written by John Green and David Levitihan, and the co-authors are effective in giving the two Will Graysons very different, but very strong and plausible voices. The first Will Grayson is an adorable straight music-nerd. He has a substantial attention-grabbing gay best friend, with the perfectly unfitting name of Tiny, who is described with the following: "he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large." The second Will Grayson is rather subdued gay type, whose life changes drastically after a chance meeting with his name-sharer in a Chicago porn store. It may all sound a little confusing, but that's probably a reflection of the gay-friendly teenage world the book is based in. The story contains all the same teenage issues we all dealt with – with plenty of added gay spice and drama, chiefly in the form of song and dance. While it canvasses many issues, the true heart of this book is the friendship between the first Will Grayson and Tiny Cooper – a sweet, straight teenager and his incredibly camp, larger than life best friend. The unlikely pairing beautifully expresses what I wish I knew when I was a teenager – who cares if you're straight, gay, fat, nerdy, musical or whimsical - as long as you have true friends who have your back no matter who you are. Or as Will Grayson #1's father succinctly puts it "Will, you can pick your friend, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose." Says it all really! Actually I don't know what that says, I just thought it was funny. Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a hilarious, sugary, easy read that makes me wish I went to a gay-friendly high school ... oh, and that I had Tiny Cooper as my best friend. Jacqui Stanford - 12th July 2010