I was friends with that guy!

When someone becomes famous or infamous, their "friends" come out of the woodwork! It is crazy!  I The author of My Friend Dahmer claims that he was just that- a friend of Jeffery Dahmer when he was in high school.
Now I liked this book a lot.  But I didn't give it 5 stars because something was niggling at me.  It seems like the author really wasn't much of a friend of Dahmer.  He wasn't a very good friend, anyway.  He excuses himself a lot, saying, "We were just kids!" But kids do some really great and brave things.  They do and they can. But these "friends" of Dahmer didn't.
So yes, I recommend this book, but I hope it will be a lesson to kids, adults, whomever, that if you have a friend in trouble, you have to do what you have to do to get help.  Not make excuses later.