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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (Goodreads Author)

3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 · rating details · 33,563 ratings · 2,452 reviews

It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York City—and smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a fir...more

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Published May 23rd 2006 by Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Jun 19, 2011 Joel rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: me, age 14

Recommended to Joel by: the movie

Shelves: 2010, 52-in-2010, seen-on-film, ya, vote-getters, 30-day-book-challenge

A few years ago I posted a far-too-personal blog on MySpace (ok, so maybe it was more than a few years ago) offering a retrospective analysis of select mortifying excepts from my circa-age 14 journal (note: not a diary). It's the only year I kept one, and thank god, because while it's perhaps worthwhile to have a snapshot of what I was thinking and feeling at that particular, tumultuous time in my life, what I was thinking and feeling was stupid and the way I went about putting it into words was...more A few years ago I posted a far-too-personal blog on MySpace (ok, so maybe it was more than a few years ago) offering a retrospective analysis of select mortifying excepts from my circa-age 14 journal (note: not a diary). It's the only year I kept one, and thank god, because while it's perhaps worthwhile to have a snapshot of what I was thinking and feeling at that particular, tumultuous time in my life, what I was thinking and feeling was stupid and the way I went about putting it into words was even worse and no one should ever have to revisit their emotional idiocy in such stark and concrete fashion. Ever. As a rule, teenagers are not good at analyzing the world, or their feelings, or their feelings about the world. Because they are idiots.

Take, for example, the lead characters of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist: they are idiots. This account of their madcap adventures, both sonic and sexual, across a very busy night in Manhattan during their senior year of high school is a lot of fun to read, but it's also excruciating, because it is written so accurately in the alternating dear-diary voices of a teenage boy and a teenage girl, respectively, and wow, you probably don't really want to be quite so inside a 17-year-old's mind, even one as seemingly jaded and witty as Norah, the cynical rich daughter of a recording industry exec who meets cute with tragically sensitive emo punk & damaged romantic Nick. Because all of her oh-so-learned insights about the world, which probably would have seemed really wise-beyond-her-years if she was real and I knew her when I was 17 myself and totally in love with her even though I would never actually say anything to her about my feelings? Self-centered, self-indulgent claptrap.

And don't get me started on Nick: his chapters are even worse. Whether he's moping about his big breakup or waxing poetic about his new attraction to Norah, he sounds like nothing so much as if he is stringing together crappy lyrics from bad emo songs ("I open my mouth and she opens my mouth and it's like she's breathing right through me. And her body is wet and it's right against mine and I want, I want, I want."). There's this section where he goes on and on about how beautiful and wonderful it is to just stand out in the rain, to really be in the rain, you know? And this part is just so painful for me to read because my very own ~~diary~~ journal has a long section about how I was feeling confused and conflicted about this girl so I just went out at night and went rollerblading in the rain and it was just so quiet and true and man do I want to punch 14-year-old me in the face (though it did subsequently spark the creation of my own bad emo song parody, Rollerblading in the Rain, which goes like this: "Needing you/ wishing you/ hoping you/ wanting you/ is like rollerblading in the rain/ you might slip and fall but you'll/ pick yourself up again").

So what exactly does it mean that N&NIP is written so accurately in the voices of its characters that it is regularly frustratingly twee and trite, because hey, what are the musings of teenagers if not twee and trite? It's like the Showgirls conundrum: is that a really really bad movie about a stripper, or is it a really really smart, intentionally bad genre parody? Either way, both entertainments are actually entertaining, even if I remain unconvinced of their genius, so I guess that's something.

A side note about Nick & Norah: The Movie - I like it. I think it benefits from a more focused structure and a wider cast of characters to take the pressure off the occasionally insufferable leads. Plus it has a great soundtrack. On the other hand, the book doesn't have Michael Cera's terrifying face. Who expected he would grow up to so closely resemble The Penguin?

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Nov 07, 2012 Jennifer Wardrip rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: trt-posted-reviews

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

Before I start the story that is Nick and Norah, I decided we needed to get some misconceptions out of the way first.

1) I don't live in Manhattan, so I won't understand what the characters are talking about. Wrong! I don't live in Manhattan--actually, I've never been farther East than Ohio, but I still got the gist of the story quite easily. Sure, I might never have visited Times Square, but I've been on the Square in my hometown (population 3,400), and the sa...more Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

Before I start the story that is Nick and Norah, I decided we needed to get some misconceptions out of the way first.

1) I don't live in Manhattan, so I won't understand what the characters are talking about. Wrong! I don't live in Manhattan--actually, I've never been farther East than Ohio, but I still got the gist of the story quite easily. Sure, I might never have visited Times Square, but I've been on the Square in my hometown (population 3,400), and the same types of things went on there that go on in New York.

2) This book is full of cursing. Right! And if you haven't heard a lot of curse words (do I really need to spell them out?), especially from the mouths of teens, in the last twenty years or so, I'm guessing you live on a commune somewhere in the middle of Utah.

3) This book only covers one night. Right again! And oh, what a night it is! One night, filled with all the ups, downs, and sideways that being a teen in todays world brings.

Now that we've got that out of the way, we can concentrate on the story. It's about Nick, a bassist for a band with an ever-changing name, who recently had his heart broken by a b***h named Tris. It's about Norah, an uber-complicated girl with more issues than The National Enquirer, who not too long ago had her virginity broken by Tal. And then there's Caroline, and Jessie, and Uncle Lou, not to mention Dev and Thom, and Randy from Are You Randy?, and Hunter from Hunter. There's beer, and there's drugs, and there's sex, although none of it is Nick or Norah's.

There's heartbreak, and devastation, and lust, and forgiveness, and acceptance. There's parents to deal with, and friends to attempt to deal with, and a boy and a girl who wish that, just once, they could be themselves and not deal at all. There's a love story, and a song about a girl on a street in the middle of the night, and a band that just might make it big, and a car that won't start, and a subway ride that requires jumping the turnstyle.

There's love, and anger, and disappointment, and desperation, and redemption. There's life, and then there's Nick and Norah. There's a story here, and you need to read it. (less)

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May 13, 2009 Keith rated it 5 of 5 stars

My wife loved this book and dragged me to the movie shortly after it came out. I thought the movie was cute---a better than average teen romance set in my old stomping grounds of New York City's Greenwich Village and Soho. On leaving the theater, I soon heard from my wife how much better the book was, and how disappointing the movie was. I guess it's all a question of what you're expecting going in...

I started reading the book as soon as we got home.

It opens with a great hook. Nick sees his ex-g...more My wife loved this book and dragged me to the movie shortly after it came out. I thought the movie was cute---a better than average teen romance set in my old stomping grounds of New York City's Greenwich Village and Soho. On leaving the theater, I soon heard from my wife how much better the book was, and how disappointing the movie was. I guess it's all a question of what you're expecting going in...

I started reading the book as soon as we got home.

It opens with a great hook. Nick sees his ex-girlfriend at a club and doesn't want to face her. So he turns to the girl next to him, Norah, and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes. Surprisingly, she responds by kissing him. Over the course of an all-night adventure in New York, they get to know each other better while each wrestles with their own doubts and insecurities and tries to figure out what to think of the other.

I loved it! And my wife was right about the movie.

The lead characters were likable and realistic. Their concerns and doubts, their hopes and fears, the roller coaster of she loves me, she loves me not, all resonated with the distant memories of my teen years. The fact that the story is set in a realistic New York City was a bonus. The story wasn't always predicable (despite having seen the movie!) and included a nicely humorous touch to keep things from getting too serious (or too overwhelmed with teen angst).

In reading through other reviews, here and on other sites, I'm surprised by the number of people who find the casual cursing and implied sexuality objectionable. I don't know quite how to respond. It's realistic fiction. And these things are part of reality, especially for teenagers on the cusp of adulthood. Obviously younger kids are probably not ready for, and wouldn't understand, some aspects of the real world. But I think this book would be fine for most high school kids. I doubt they will find much here (except perhaps the night life of New York) that they haven't heard about, thought about, and talked about with their peers. In fact, the biggest surprise for a high school reader may be the authors' empathy for the doubts and fears and ups and downs of teen life.(less)

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Aug 13, 2008 Snorkle rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: loathe, young-adult, did-not-finish, read-2008, review-on-blog

Nick sees his old girlfriend coming towards him with a new guy and he can't let her see him like this, so he asks the girl next to him to be his girlfriend for just five minutes.

This book was trash - complete and total trash, with the F-word making an appearance at least every other page and other profanities littered across the story I found it highly offensive and vulgar. I didn't have to read much to realize what kind of book this would become, and needless to say, I did not finish this book....more

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Jan 09, 2010 Minli rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, young-adult

This book is FUCKING EPIC. So there.

I think all YA lit is exaggerated in a sense, not in a bad way, but in an interesting way--who wants to read about just the ordinary? Of course, I could just be saying this because it was done well here. I bet you anything the next YA book I read, I'll be griping about it being 'too unrealistic.'

What's the difference then? Writing. Levithan and Cohn's writing is sooo gorgeous in that 'witty but not so witty you're annoying and pretentious' kind of way.

And e...more

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Feb 18, 2012 Nora rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, own

Pane bože! Pane bože! Tyhle slova normálně při psaní nepoužívám (abych byla upřímná, bohužel i já takhle mluvím... ale psát takhle, to je něco úplně jiného), ale tohle... tohle mám tendenci pořád psát! Tahle knížka... no ty brďo! Nikdy jsem si nemyslela, že se toho tolik může udát za jedinou noc a nevyznít to... co já vím... divně... ale... ty jo!

Tahle kniha vypráví o jedné noci dvou lidí. Dvou lidí, kteří za sebou mají svůj vlastní příběh, osud, pocity, zklamání, lásky, nevyřešené účty. Dva li...more

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Nov 11, 2007 Emma rated it 3 of 5 stars

Novels written by two authors can go one of two ways: they can be really cool, or really bad. Happily, writers of young adult novels seem to have a knack for working in collaboration. "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" (from 2006) was written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Cohn wrote Norah's part and Levithan wrote Nick's part, but they are not really Nick and Norah.

The story starts in the middle of the night (or is it the beginning of the morning?) at a club on Ludlow Street in New York C...more Novels written by two authors can go one of two ways: they can be really cool, or really bad. Happily, writers of young adult novels seem to have a knack for working in collaboration. "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" (from 2006) was written by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Cohn wrote Norah's part and Levithan wrote Nick's part, but they are not really Nick and Norah.

The story starts in the middle of the night (or is it the beginning of the morning?) at a club on Ludlow Street in New York City. Nick is "the nonqueer bassist in a queercore band who is filling the room with undertone" as his band tears through their set. His life is seeming pretty great when Tris, The Ex, walks into the club. That's where Norah comes in.

Norah is "the daughter of an Englewood Cliffs-livin', fat-cat record company CEO" who happens to be in the right place at the exact time that Nick really needs a five-minute girlfriend. That also happens to be right when Norah needs to get a ride for her friend.

So it all kind of works out. It also sets the stage for the novel: a first date that makes it through the club scene in New York, a date where everything goes wrong (or maybe it goes right), a date that goes on and on--in a good way, mostly.

In other words, "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" is a fast story. Events jump around and the prose moves just as quickly. Cohn and Levithan keep up this speed with their narratives (Nick and Norah get alternating chapters) which have the verve appropriate to a hip, teen novel.

Because this book really is firmly grounded in the Young Adult genre. Older readers who have an interest in music (or the upcoming movie) might be interested but the novel is very centered on teen concerns and interests. None of which is a bad thing since this is a YA novel.

The narrative here is really tight. Cohn and Levithan do a great job keeping the story coherent as they alternate chapters without getting redundant. I really like the style here. The duel narratives overlap enough that readers get to see key events from Nick and Norah's point of view. This technique helps to give a fuller version of the story as well as humorously showing how differently two people can see the exact same thing.

My only qualm with the novel is the language. There is a lot of cursing. That doesn't bother me ideologically, but it does start to seem over the top. About two thirds into the novel I started to wonder if anyone could really curse that much in day-to-day conversation (Norah is a self-proclaimed "potty mouth" to be fair), but maybe I just hung out with a different kind of set when I was younger.

"Nick and Norah's Playlist" is a crazy ride of a novel. It has music, borscht, romance, and some great dialogue. Readers familiar with Levithan's other novels ("Boy Meets Boy" to name one) will recognize his frank writing style here. I haven't read any of Cohn's other novels ("Gingerbread" to name one) but she's definitely on my watch list now. (less)

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Mar 02, 2008 Morgan rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone

Recommended to Morgan by: Dawn Foster

Shelves: favorites

I noticed this book in our house--my mom was reading it, and the cover both intrigued me and repelled me. However, after my mom's recommendation, I read this book--and loved it. It is one of the most dead-on accurate books I've ever read about young emotions and feelings. The initial plot is slightly contrived: a heartbroken teenager sees his ex with her new guy and asks a girl to pretend she's his girlfriend. However, the story is told by both Nick and Norah's point of view, so the reader is al...more

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Jan 02, 2008 Jennie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: yaliterature

Plot: When Nick and Norah meet in a NYC rock club, they have no idea that they are about to embark upon a romantic relationship. Nick just wants a girlfriend for five minutes in order to make his ex jealous, but there's something about Norah that leaves him wanting more after she kisses him in response to his asking for a five minute girlfriend. The two end up spending the night together in NYC and begin to fall for each other.

Evaluation: I have to say that just like Doing It and Forever, sex is...more Plot: When Nick and Norah meet in a NYC rock club, they have no idea that they are about to embark upon a romantic relationship. Nick just wants a girlfriend for five minutes in order to make his ex jealous, but there's something about Norah that leaves him wanting more after she kisses him in response to his asking for a five minute girlfriend. The two end up spending the night together in NYC and begin to fall for each other.

Evaluation: I have to say that just like Doing It and Forever, sex is talked about just as openly in this novel. When Nick and Norah are getting intimate in the ICE room of the Marriott, the novel goes into great detail as to what the couple is doing in there. Norah says, “My heart is pounding pounding pounding and my mouth wants to go there but my head turns upward first, wanting to make eye contact with Nick, but in the fluorescent light I see his eyes are closed, so I speak instead, and I say, ‘Tell me. Guide me.’ Because I want it to be both our instincts making this happen” (Cohn & Levithan, 164). Norah is describing the fact that she wants to perform oral sex on Nick and it’s a rather frank description, but the reader also sees the emotional excitement that Norah is experiencing. Just like Katherine in Forever, Norah is taking pleasure in what she is doing and is not being forced into it. There is this recognition that sex is enjoyable and that it isn’t some sort of forbidden act. When Norah and Nick choose to wait in order to sexually consummate their relationship, it’s because they want to take it slow and get to know each other. They want to take pleasure in falling in love and to relish the sweetness of what might be in store for them in the future. To quote Norah, “What’s the big fucking rush?” (Cohn & Levithan, 166). It’s implied that the characters will continue their romantic relationship even after the novel’s conclusion.

It is the flirtatious relationship between Nick and Norah that is most enjoyable in this novel. Nick is a songwriter, so he is very good with his words and Norah is very witty. The two spend the evening taking delight in flirting verbally and getting to know each other in an emotionally intimate sense. Another aspect of the novel that is appealing is that both characters are very sensitive and afraid of jumping into a relationship, but they just can't seem to help themselves since they are so attracted to each other. Nick has been dumped by Tris and Norah has been dumped by Tal. Both characters are wounded and afraid of being hurt again, but I think that this makes them even more perfect for each other because they know what it's like to be hurt, so they are willing to take it slow and enjoy their romance. They treat each other's feelings rather delicately and most readers will take delight in the slow pacing of the novel and how the characters are sensitive towards each other. I have to say that I thought that Nick and Norah were an extremely romantic couple, which was quite refreshing after reading Burgess's Doing It.
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Aug 11, 2012 Anthony Chavez rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I envision Nick working somewhere like The Strand which was featured in "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares" and now I understand some of the places that were mentioned in that book and the bathroom writing on the wall they mentioned in "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares" by the same authors.

After reading it I was trying to think of what the writing reminded me of, what with all the musical references and the language used, and I went back to my Textual Healing review and thought, "YES." It's like a...more I envision Nick working somewhere like The Strand which was featured in "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares" and now I understand some of the places that were mentioned in that book and the bathroom writing on the wall they mentioned in "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares" by the same authors.

After reading it I was trying to think of what the writing reminded me of, what with all the musical references and the language used, and I went back to my Textual Healing review and thought, "YES." It's like a feel good teen romantic comedy, loaded with musical and pop culture references. I imagined the soundtrack that would be playing to the background of it as I was reading it and would often flip to the beginning of the book to see the map and "The Acknowledgements Playlist," I really dug that those were included.

Many reviews of the book harp on the use of the F word. I don't know, maybe I have become desensitized to the word but either I didn't notice it and it didn't matter or it just flowed with the book and I skimmed right past it without another thought. It fit. It worked. Let's move on past the small details.

There is nothing special about the storyline, that's not what grabs the reader in my opinion. It's a typical boy-meets-girl/girl-meets-boy type of story but its the execution of the story that seals the deal. The switching of points of view and way it is written while at the same time not taking itself too seriously. I like the non-cliche and non-sappy poetic lines thrown by both Nick and Norah on their alternating chapters, and the lyrics Nick throws together throughout the evening. It drives the point home that every sentence in the book is well thought out.

I wasn't entirely taken with the ending. I mean, after everything you've been through that night, going into an ice room with him, and getting into a car with him, and a train, and an elevator and eating and dancing and so on - all those leaps of faith you took with a person who WAS a complete stranger, you are now going to try and decide whether to jump over a turnstile and actually make that into a metaphor about your relationship with him? AND after already making a BIG decision and ditching him once in a taxi. I don't know - it was a little cheesy I thought, but it works. I think it would have been nice if at the end he takes her home, kisses her good night/good morning, she closes the door, runs to her room and looks out the window to try to get one last glimpse of him to remember this night and their meet cute. But hey, that's just me.

In my opinion this story is a wild adventure AND all taking place in the span of one night which makes it even wilder. A lot of teenagers and even adults can relate to it though, it touches sensitive areas from intimacy, getting over an ex, making plans for the future, etc. And as I have said before it is one for music lovers as well. It was a fun light read, and a good escape for a week. It was also a good follow up to Paper Towns, another good young adult/teen read. Recommended for the romantic teen comedy types out there.(less)

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Jun 25, 2008 SheWunders rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-childrens_lit, 2008-06

Ok, I don’t think I’ve ever read the word f*&k so many times (sheesh), but I like this book for its innovative and true representation of the current teenage mind. I’m sure not all teenagers are like Nick and Norah (I know I wasn’t), but many are the dialog in this books is insightful. It’s written in alternating chapters from Nick & Norah’s POV. It’s great to see what’s going on in their head simultaneously. Whoa to the person who could put up with it in everyday life. Anyway, Nick and...more

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Mar 16, 2008 Nicola rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, teen

On the emo (punk? oh whatever, EMO) music scene in New York City, Nick and Norah meet and fall in love over a single, remarkable night. Unfortunately, what had the potential to be a great book fails in its execution.

The trouble with a co-written book (Cohn and Levithan wrote alternating chapters, sending the manuscript back and forth) is that half the writing I liked a lot (Cohn's) and half the writing I damn near hated (Levithan's). I like wordplay. I do not, however, like it nearly as much as...more On the emo (punk? oh whatever, EMO) music scene in New York City, Nick and Norah meet and fall in love over a single, remarkable night. Unfortunately, what had the potential to be a great book fails in its execution.

The trouble with a co-written book (Cohn and Levithan wrote alternating chapters, sending the manuscript back and forth) is that half the writing I liked a lot (Cohn's) and half the writing I damn near hated (Levithan's). I like wordplay. I do not, however, like it nearly as much as Levithan. After about ten pages of his incessant wordplay, I wanted to stab myself in the face. Also, for such a slender novel (even for a teen novel), there was a hell of a lot of ramble. I suspect this is a result of the unplanned, back-and-forth way the novel was written. (There's also a bit near the end where the fourth wall is all but demolished: Levithan screws up the continuity on who exactly Dev's boytoy is; Cohn uses Norah as a mouthpiece to ream him about it during the next chapter.) Perhaps inevitably, after the first few chapters, the story descends into "and then this happened, and then this, and then, and then, and then". I like novels to have a tight story arc. This novel was a sprawling mess.

Billed as a love story, it's really not. There's about 30% falling-in-love stuff. The rest is angst about ex-boyfriends and -girlfriends. Realistic? Sure. Fun to read? No. There are chapters and chapters where Nick and Norah do nothing except obsess over their exes. It would be more forgivable if what love stuff there was didn't veer into rather cloying, romance novel territory.

The thing to love about this novel is how well the authors inhabit a generation. So much of it rings true. The authors evoke the current youth culture impressively well. (I sound so old. "Young culture". Whatever. It's not my generation. And for the record, an eighteen-year-old would not mourn the cancellation of MSCL. She would have been SEVEN when it was airing. Jeez.) These are the kids I recognize from shows and I'm pretty thrilled to read a book that does them justice. I suppose my beef with the novel is that it tries so hard to be original, but fails. It's only a stale story rebranded for a new generation.(less)

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Nov 11, 2011 Eunice rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, realistic-fiction, favourites, ya-romance, young-adult, multiple-pov, new-adult

4.5 of 5 stars

I adore this book very much. The writing, the characters, the place, the music, the humor, everything! It was just so adorable! I find myself wishing the story not to end or just that it was longer. I grew instantly attached with it in just a couple of hours. Haha! ^^

The story all started when Nick, a bassist of an indie band who has been sulking from the break-up with his girlfriend asked Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes upon seeing his ex approaching him with a differe...more 4.5 of 5 stars

I adore this book very much. The writing, the characters, the place, the music, the humor, everything! It was just so adorable! I find myself wishing the story not to end or just that it was longer. I grew instantly attached with it in just a couple of hours. Haha! ^^

The story all started when Nick, a bassist of an indie band who has been sulking from the break-up with his girlfriend asked Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes upon seeing his ex approaching him with a different guy.

Nick and Norah met in a really peculiar and inconvenient circumstances. It was funny, cute, and lovely. Though they were struggling with each of their own issues when they met, their meeting did helped them to come out of it, understand it, learn something, and realize what they are, what they need and what they really want.

I love Nick! And I can say I swooned a lot from him. He may not be described as stunningly attractive guy, but his every characteristics is just so uniquely attractive. A straight-edge guy who loves music, plays the bass guitar, a promising lyricist and according to Norah, a good kisser. He's sort of the soft kind of guy but he has this cool and hot aura that you'll definitely love about him. Norah is just so adorable. I love how she describe things, how she thinks, how she likes music, how she loves Oreo, and how she describes Nick. Haha. She's a funny, witty, frigid girl but totally lovable.

What I enjoyed the most is when they flirt verbally, I mean, when when they talk and their comebacks with each other are just really cute, not overtly and obviously cheesy but still sweet it will make you grin. And yes! The setting, New York. You could just imagine it so lovely and beautiful, especially the scene in the rain. That was totally aahhhhh~! Haha. And also, of course, the scene in the ICE room in Marriott. That was...hot but also really really funny.

The writing's definitely good! Having both POV's narrate the story made me able to enjoy both thoughts and perspective. In that way, it also made it easier for me to know and understand both characters. The pacing was also fast you could finish it in just a couple of hours. There were lots of swear words and profanities but I don't really mind.

This is a one funny, touching, lovely story to read. I highly recommend this to everyone! ^^

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Mar 05, 2013 Margarette rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: loathed, unfinished

While Twilight was a psychological nightmare, I found it more tolerable to read than Nick & Norah. I was/am more ashamed of myself when I had wasted time having reached halfway of this book than when I read a few free chapters of Twilight. The Nick and Norah characters—well, to be honest, all the characters—were shallow. Let me summarize the book to those who haven’t read it, from Nick’s POV: “Ex is coming over. Time to protect ego. Find the next girl and have her pretend she’s my new girlfr...more While Twilight was a psychological nightmare, I found it more tolerable to read than Nick & Norah. I was/am more ashamed of myself when I had wasted time having reached halfway of this book than when I read a few free chapters of Twilight. The Nick and Norah characters—well, to be honest, all the characters—were shallow. Let me summarize the book to those who haven’t read it, from Nick’s POV: “Ex is coming over. Time to protect ego. Find the next girl and have her pretend she’s my new girlfriend. Norah spotted.”

If that wasn’t already a bad, immature plot unraveling, the book was written in alternating voices, which in actuality, were just Nick and Norah rephrasing what the other was saying! Take out all the repetitive events and what you’d have left is a 10-minute gossip, tops. I have read Flipped at a young age—another alternating-POV novel—and it’s still one of the richest novels I’ve ever had my hands on.

But what I really hate most about this book? The authors made “fuck” an adjective, a noun, and an adverb. After failing to read the book twice, the third time I just merely flipped through it because hey, third time might be the charm. Turns out it wasn’t. By the third try, I realized that there were at least ten usages of “fuck” in all shapes and sizes per page. Now, I have nothing against people who curse. I love cursing. But the overuse of the bleeping word comes across to me as though the authors were trying too hard to make it sound like the voices were actual teenagers. They weren’t. They were cardboard. And what’s even more painful is the book is being sold under YA. And then they complain about why young adults “kiss their mothers with that mouth.”

This is not a bash on the book just because it's “popular.” I've never heard of it before I picked it up, nor did I know that it had a movie adaptation until I realized that I was looking at the movie tie-in edition. I picked it up because I love twenty-four-hour stories, more so if they were written beautifully. I also liked playlists and novels that are music-related, so all three wrapped in one book? Glory! But as much as I tried, it was trash—three times.

A friend asked for my copy and while I would love to get it out of my hands, I feel like it’d be much better to lock it inside a trunk where it couldn’t hurt anyone anymore.(less)

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Feb 15, 2010 Aaron Vincent rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Open-minded readers.

Shelves: contemporary-ya

This book was the runner-up for book of the Month of February in one of the groups I am active here in GR. Bridget Jones Diary won the poll but its too chiclit for me. I don't have anything against chiclit, infact I'm curious about Meg Cabot's novels, its just that I saw BJD movie and I was pretty much bored. So being stubborn and everything, I read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist instead.

I am pretty suprised that I really like this novel despite of the prominent usage of curse words, the wor...more This book was the runner-up for book of the Month of February in one of the groups I am active here in GR. Bridget Jones Diary won the poll but its too chiclit for me. I don't have anything against chiclit, infact I'm curious about Meg Cabot's novels, its just that I saw BJD movie and I was pretty much bored. So being stubborn and everything, I read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist instead.

I am pretty suprised that I really like this novel despite of the prominent usage of curse words, the word "fuck" to be exact, and reference to making out and sex. A lot of people dislike this book because of these facts but I'd say if you find these acts pretty offensive then you are living in a cave for the past couple of years. There is MORE from this book than these "offensive" acts.

Now, let me explain what do i mean by "more". There is really nothing special about the storyline. It's a typical boy-meets-girl/girl-meets-boy type of story but I guess its the execution of the story that seals the deal. It's even commendable that the story is not too ambitious just like some books I read that has great ideas for the story but failed to execute it very well. Some novels trying to be too intellectual and some trying too much to send across the readers its message and some are just plain stupid.

Nick and Norah just made it to the top of my favorite non-fantasy fictional character. Aside from Nick and Norah having really good taste in music, I have learned to love them because they are not some delusive potrayal of teens of this generation. I really think they are wickedly cool and smart. Some minor characters are also notable especially Tris. How her impression evolve from just being a plain bitch to a caring and thoughtful bitch. I guess it will be good for parents to read this for them to understand their children. The world we are now living in is a pretty nasty place, and when you live in a nasty place its unevitable for you to become nasty but that doesn't mean that we are throwing our lives away.(How I wish my mom could read this review.). Not that I am defending our age but that's just how is it. Ideal teenagers have gone long past been endangered(or extinct).

I also like the non-cliche and non-sappy poetic lines thrown by both Nick and Norah on their alternating chapters. Its seems that every sentence in the book is well thought-of. I would love to list them all but that would be like typing the whole book so I'll just mention one of my favorite from Nick:

"We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards."

and

"The crowd is pressing in on us and the bassline is revealing everything and we are two people who are part of a lot more people, and at the same time we're our own part. There isn't loneliness, only this intense twoliness."

And from Norah:

"I mean, I don’t know how the world broke. And I don’t know if there’s a God who can help us fix it. But the fact that the world is broken - I absolutely believe that. Just look around us. Every minute - every single second - there are a million things you could be thinking about. A million things you could be worrying about. Our world - don’t you just feel we’re becoming more fragmented? I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces - they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it would mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe that."

I also love the one from Nick that explains why the title has "Infinite Playlist" but that would be much of a spoiler already. So if you want to read more of there brilliant remarks, go grab the book.

I am glad that I've been sappy and chose to read a romantic novel few days before the Valentines day. I am glad that I didn't chose a Nicholas Spark Tragic love story for that selection. I am glad to meet this smart "bitch", named Norah, and this band-member "jackass", named Nick.

(Wow. Just noticed that this is one of the longest review of a book I've ever written. I didn't knew I like this book this much.)(less)

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Jun 29, 2008 Anna rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: pretentious punk rocker wannabes

Recommended to Anna by: I have no one to blame -- I foolishly picked it up myself in the

Shelves: chick-lit, fiction, young-adult

This book left such a bad taste in my mouth! Where do I begin...?

First, the language was ridiculous. This is supposed to be a young adult book, yet I can't tell you how many times the authors [over]used the word "fuck." Why? In most of the situations it was totally unnecessary and sounded like they were trying too hard to impress their young readers. I understand that "fuck" is a word just like anything else, but just like every other word in the English language, it does not need to be the only...more

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Jul 12, 2007 Meghan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya, fiction, music

Two successful young adult writers combine forces to tell the story of two lively, impassioned, music-loving teenagers who meet at a punk rock show and fall in love over the span of one long night spent in the clubs and streets of New York City. Told in alternating chapters, Rachel Cohn narrates the voice of the girl and David Levithan the boy as we hear each side of the story and relate to both characters’ hesitation, confusion, and vulnerability as the night continues and they face the challen...more

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Sep 02, 2011 Teresinha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: česky, favorites, cooboo

UPDATE, více zde: http://mundo-da-teresinha.blogspot.co...

Dost jsem přemýšlela, jestli téhle knize dát čtyři nebo pět hvězdiček... je to tak na půl, možná čtyři a půl. Ale ne, těch pět si zaslouží... :D
...za způsob, jakým je tahle love story napsaná. Příběh sice není nijak závratně objevnej, ale tím, jak je to celé vyprávěné a pojaté, to na mě vyhrává na celé čáře. Tahle knížka je jeden velkej necenzurovanej proud vědomí a myšlenek dvou hlavních postav a je tak strašně strašně strašně moc sexy!...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Stephanie (Stepping out of the Page) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: movies-or-tv, read-in-2011, realistic-fiction, young-adult, let-down, contemporary, books-i-own

This book wasn't bad, but not as good as I expected it to be. It took me a little while to get into it because of the way it was written. For a young adult book, I think this was actually a little over-the-top with all of the swearing - this is definitely a book for older teens. It also took some time before I got used to and enjoyed reading about the characters. The writing was fast paced and I could sense the atmosphere of the city and the feelings of Nick and Norah, but I thought some of thei...more

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Jan 08, 2008 Suzanne rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: youngadult-fiction

Finally done. Just over a week to get through a slim 183 pages. Blech.

17-year-old Suzanne would have loved this book. 30-year-old Suzanne hated it. I feel like it tried too hard. And the f-bomb is used way too gratuitously. It's not even used for emphasis's sake.
Example:
Normal Human: I am going to take out the trash right now.
Nick and/or Norah: I am going to f*@%ing take out the f*@%ing trash right f*@%ing now.
Is this how the teens are talking these days?

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Dec 14, 2008 Ally rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: older teens, music fans

Shelves: young-adult

Any music-obsessed geek would find this book to be an entertaining read. I just love how the characters constantly make playlists and match-up songs to their experiences in the book. The little commentaries by Nick, Norah, and friends about bands, like the Cure, and quotes from 80's movies like Heathers, almost jars the reader from believing that these characters are modern teens. You can tell the authors had some pop culture obsessions they had to let loose in their writing.

I usually never do t...more

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Feb 10, 2009 Brian Hodges rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-mg, better-than-the-movie

This YA book was a little bit "High Fidelity" a little bit "Can't Hardly Wait", a little bit Chuck Klosterman and a little bit "Go" with a heavy PUNK vibe.

The story is told in double-first-person switching back and forth each chapter between Nick and Norah's point of view. Nick is the eighteen-year-old guitar player in a "queercore" punk band who has recently been dumped by the girl he thought he was in love with. When said girl shows up at one of his shows, he can't bear to face her, so he turn...more This YA book was a little bit "High Fidelity" a little bit "Can't Hardly Wait", a little bit Chuck Klosterman and a little bit "Go" with a heavy PUNK vibe.

The story is told in double-first-person switching back and forth each chapter between Nick and Norah's point of view. Nick is the eighteen-year-old guitar player in a "queercore" punk band who has recently been dumped by the girl he thought he was in love with. When said girl shows up at one of his shows, he can't bear to face her, so he turns to some chick named Norah and asks, "You you mind being my girlfriend for five minutes?"

That one line launches them into the most insanely wild, romantic, confusing, badass, angsty, funny, self-conscious, self-aware, punk rocking, tender, sexy, back-and-forth first dates EVER.

The whole book was seriously one long ride where you find yourself cheering for and getting annoyed at the two main characters as they dance around and toward each other in a series of events that make you say, "Wait these kids are in HIGH SCHOOL." Yes, the mature, wordly, sexually experienced self-awareness exhibited by the characters made me frequently think, "These sound like 25-year-olds," and I often pictured the cast of "Go" as opposed to "Dawson's Creek". But I just as frequently found myself saying, "Damn, these are the coolest mutherf---ers you have ever met and I would have given anything in high school to hang out with them."

This book was for me what I think "The Notebook" was for women. Just once, I wish I had had one night with a girl that was as emotionally "all out" as the one these two kids experienced traipsing through Manhattan and the underground punk scene. It's an unrealistic fantasy that you can't help but believing.

This is supposedly a Young Adult book, but it is INCREDIBLY mature both in language and sexuality... yet funnily and sweetly, the two main characters are surprisingly chaste and straight-edge. All in all this one is definitely worth picking up. It's a fast read and a faster ride.(less)

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Apr 30, 2011 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this story, though it could have been longer. But in a way, I can kind of understand why it wasn't. It would have been easy to just keep the story going and going, but it had to end somewhere. I guess it possibly had the potential to become tedious had it continued too far.

I like the format, with both characters getting a chapter in turn.
It was interesting to have two protagonists giving their separate narration on the story. It was actually quite funny, because, as happens in life, one...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: excellent-ya, guilty-pleasure, lived-up-to-the-hype, saved-by-characterization, good-books-have-good-covers, detailed-reviews, realistic-fiction, contemporary, quiltbag

When I went into this book, I can't say I had high expectations. I expected a cheesy story, with a clumsy plot, and I wouldn't like it. I turned out to be right on all of these presumptions except that I wouldn't like it. Because actually, I quite enjoyed it.

But yes, the plot was clumsy. The characters go around in a repetitive manner, not seeming to want to accomplish anything. Often, things happen simply because the authors needed them to for the sake of characterization. I did like this book,...more When I went into this book, I can't say I had high expectations. I expected a cheesy story, with a clumsy plot, and I wouldn't like it. I turned out to be right on all of these presumptions except that I wouldn't like it. Because actually, I quite enjoyed it.

But yes, the plot was clumsy. The characters go around in a repetitive manner, not seeming to want to accomplish anything. Often, things happen simply because the authors needed them to for the sake of characterization. I did like this book, but the plot was easily my least favorite part.

However, I did like the characterization. This book wasn't cheesy in the sense that it was unrealistic or cliched in its characters, it was cheesy in that you knew they would have a happy ending from the start. Actually, it's characters were awesome. I bought Nick's voice completely, although I was a bit iffy about Norah's (more on that later). It was a realistic look at the interactions of teenagers. Nick, Norah, Tris, and Tal were all people that you might actually find. In particular, I was impressed that Tris was developed beyond simply a bitch. People who act like her are real people too, and books often forget that. Said one of my friends (Sean), "Why does everyone hate cheerleaders so much? I've never been to an American high school, but from what I've read, it seems like they would be full of testicular sucking sluts." (I am paraphrasing. If you're reading this, Sean, feel free to correct me on that.) In this book, Tris is developed far beyond that, and I loved it.

The prose was... mixed. I loved the Nick chapters (written by Levithan). They were written in a poetic way that a teenager would really speak. But the Norah chapters (written by Cohn), weren't up to this standard. Levithan handles Nick's teenspeech realistically, but Cohn takes it way too far. Frequently, she overuses the f-word, she extends vowels in the narration, (i.e. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"), and capitalization is often used for emphasis instead of italicizes. They got better as the book went along, but I frequently found myself cringing when Norah did things like this in the narration that didn't come across at all in her dialogue. However, I'll let this go because the narration was hilarious.

So, overall, it's a win. If you don't like contemporary, you won't like this. It's basically a standard contemporary story told very, very well. However, I can still picture a lot of people hating this. Particularly if you like books that are emotionally unique or even mildly plot-oriented. However, if you're a fan of either author, this is perfect.

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: After I read this book, I read an anthology called Foretold 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction. One of my favorite parts of the book was a story called "Fate", which was basically this book, only in short story form. Reading it helped me sort out my feelings about this one. The two had a lot of similarities: both feature a slow-burning romance and little else, both have characters with hard pasts to keep it from being sappy (but end up being sappy anyway), both rotate POV between the two protagonists, and both have wonderful characters. There were differences - Carson and Willow were nothing at all like Nick and Norah, and the two settings were drastically different - but it ended up being mostly similar. I think that Fate was more successful than this book. The main reason is that it never let its plot feel repetitive or boring, probably because it didn't have the space to, whereas Nick and Norah felt like a short story expanded out to form a book. Also, Norah's voice was taken too far in my opinion - Elkes (the author of Fate) made no attempt to imitate the voice of teenagers, which made their voices sound more believable, ironically enough. This was a great book, but I think it could've been better, as Fate was, all things considered.(less)

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Oct 28, 2012 vcheung rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Never have I ever read a book with that much profanity in it. It was so full of swearing and crude language, it was disgusting.

There were some touching/memorable moments. Notable quotes include the following:
"My jacket looks good on you. "
She puts the glass down. Stares at me. I think, Fine, I'm a freak.
So be it.
"no, "I go on. "it does. And if I left, you'd probably want to give me my jacket back. And if you did, I wouldn't be able to put it on, because the whole time I'd know how perfectly i...more

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Mar 03, 2012 Cynthia rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Not everybody likes a typical love story...But Nick and Norah's love story isn't any romance it's a young romance.

"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", By Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan write this book, from a first person point of view. The chapters,go back and forth from the point of view of Norah to Nicks. This allows the reader to see the actions through out the story from the point of view of the two main characters. It allows the readers to captivate the inner thoughts and conflicts in...more Not everybody likes a typical love story...But Nick and Norah's love story isn't any romance it's a young romance.

"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", By Rachel Cohn and David Leviathan write this book, from a first person point of view. The chapters,go back and forth from the point of view of Norah to Nicks. This allows the reader to see the actions through out the story from the point of view of the two main characters. It allows the readers to captivate the inner thoughts and conflicts inside the characters. Instead of just giving the point of view from one character. This way of writing the story, helps convey the many themes in this story. It conveys the theme that sometimes going with the flow can be the best of things. Not knowing what is going to happen next in life, and yet going along with the unexpected moments can sometimes get you far.

Nick and Norah meet, in a downtown club in Manhattan. Nick out of impulse to try and avoid his recent ex-girlfriend and her date, asks a girl who is next to him(Norah). If she would be his five minute girlfriend. Norah agrees, she was observing him from a distance, just so she can evaluate his straightness,because he is a bassist in a homosexual band. As Tris, Nick's ex approaches them out of impulse Nick kisses Norah. What Nick doesn't know was that Norah already knows Tris from school. Norah Doesn't know that Nick, is the "poor schmuck". Who use to write songs, and create playlist's for Tris. And Tris being the mean person that she is, would through them away. Norah would then take them out of the trashcan. That one kiss, made these to young love birds on a Adventure to find the band "Where's Fluffy". But there is a slight problem. Norah's promiscuous wild bestfriend, is wasted. And Norah has to get her save home, Nick offers a ride in his beaten up Yugo. Who won't start, in Nick's rescue his band mate Thom and his boyfriend suggest that they would take Caroline home.

They agree to Thoms suggestion of a "First date"and are quickly on their way to find Where's fluffy. As they drive they run into, Norahs not yet dumped ex-boyfriend Tal. He is returning to the states, and tries to get her back, but Norah refuses. He leaves warning Nick that Norah appears to be something she is not. For the rest of the night, Nick and Norah discover things about to each other that they would never expect. They discover they are both in heartache over people who never actually never cared about each them. And now they are scared to open up. Becoming to over whelmed with all the confusion Hops in a Taxi and leaves Nick. As Nick is trying to figure out what is going on, he gets a pep talk from his band Mate Dev, he tells him that Norah then goes to a Restaurant, to grab a bite after sitting for a while in the cab. As she is in the restaurant awating her food she feels a vibration in Nick's Salvatore jacket. It's Nick's phone, she answers. It's Nick, yet when she answers she doesn't know it's Nick. In my opinion this is the most cutest part of the story. He tells her that he was stupid for letting her go, he then meets up with her at the restaurant. They meet up, and allow each other in completely into each others life's.

In my opinion this story is a wild adventure. But a lot of teenagers and even adults can relate to it. It touches sensitive areas from intemincy to figuring out future plans. This book is for music lovers as well. It is filled with teenagelove, endless laughter,confusion, and a lot music. I recommend this book for young adults.

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Jun 02, 2011 Jessica-Robyn rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, pov-multiple, standalone-novels, romance, movie-theatre

2.5 rating
I have mixed feelings about this book. For the first half I just couldn't get into the story, the plot was interesting, but the way it tried to come together with the writing didn't bode well with me. This is another one of those books where information is thrown at you in order to keep the plot moving. This made the initial character establishment feel rushed, and because this is a character driven book this made it difficult to getting into the set up.

Another problem I had was with...more 2.5 rating
I have mixed feelings about this book. For the first half I just couldn't get into the story, the plot was interesting, but the way it tried to come together with the writing didn't bode well with me. This is another one of those books where information is thrown at you in order to keep the plot moving. This made the initial character establishment feel rushed, and because this is a character driven book this made it difficult to getting into the set up.

Another problem I had was with the writing, most of it was based on thoughts or dialog but during Nick and Norah's long periods of thinking the writing didn't give much direction. There was very little emphasis put on body language when they weren't with another character and it made it hard for me to imagine what they were doing in those situations. They could have been standing in one place like a statue and I wouldn't have known.

The plot itself is very chaotic and I actually mean this in a good way. When you're experiencing one night of life changing madness things need to be a little all over the place. It made the situation feel more honest. Nick and Norah didn't know what the other was thinking or how this was all going to work out and that lead to conflict. I really started to enjoy the story after the Where's Fluffy trip to the grocer. Everything sort of came together and the characters were actually beginning to figure things out. From that point on I really did like the book, which is what made me round up instead of down for my rating. The music references were great, the characters of Nick and Norah were likable enough, it had some funny dialog, and when everything did click it clicked well.

Back to the writing, The Infinite Playlist is written in alternating point of view chapters. I think that they were not used to the full extent of what it could have been. After having read only days ago Will Grayson, Will Grayson which uses the same format but brings it to an entirely new level, it is hard to say comparisons weren't made despite the huge differences in writing styles and story.

Overall Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist wasn't a let down for me but I didn't like it as much as I thought I would, or perhaps could with such an interesting concept to plot the story around. (less)

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Apr 01, 2011 Sarah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2011, sold-or-given-away

I thought this book would be completely different. That being said, I probably would not have read it if I knew what the content of the book really was. I thought it would be a sweet book, but if I had seen the movie or even read a review (!), I might not have even read Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. As for the rating, I had a hard time deciding what to give it. I considered giving it a rating somewhere between a one and three. In the end, I decided to give it a two point five, because I di...more

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May 22, 2011 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult

Nick and Norah meet in a punk rock club one night when Nick asks Norah to be his 5 minute girlfriend. Why? Because Nick's ex, Tris, is in the club with her new man and Tris broke Nick's heart. From that point on, Nick and Norah recognize the chemistry between them, but their feelings are compromised by their previous relationships.

The book is okay. Told in stream-of-consciousness chapters alternating between Nick's point of view and Norah's, some of it becomes repetitive (although this technique...more

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Dec 04, 2009 Sara ♥ rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, young-adult, challenge-fall-2009, film

I think I would have given it 2.5 stars, but I did enjoy the journey the two main characters went on... in retrospect though, the language was so gratuitous that I'm bumping it down to 2.

Nick and Norah at a club, where Nick just finished playing a set with his band (he's the bassist). His ex-girlfriend is there with another guy, and he was about to run into them, so spur-of-the-moment-like, he asks Norah (whose name he doesn't even know at this point, but she's standing next to him, so it's ultr...more

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Rachel grew up in the D.C. area and graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in Political Science. She has written many YA novels, including three that she cowrote with her friend and colleague David Levithan. She lives and writes (when she's not reading other people's books, organizing her music library or looking for the best cappuccino) in New York City.

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“I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide.” — 722 people liked it

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