I Love You, Beth Cooper
by Larry Doyle
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone who likes a funny book
When I read this book, I had no idea that the author, first-time novelist Larry Doyle, was an established television writer, with writing credits for "Daria," "Beavis and Butthead," and "The Simpsons," but I easily could have guessed. I Love You, Beth Cooper has the frantic pace and zany, unrealistic plot points that are necessary to keeping a television audience (especially the youthful ones of the aforementioned shows) interested for the whole half-hour. It is f...more
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Read in September, 2007
This is one of those classic teen movies that is quoteable and funny, but it also is making fun of those movie while throwing back omages to them. The best part: It's a novel, not a movie.
High School Graduation speech Denis Cooverman, debate team captin, total nerd, and validictorian declares his love for Beth Cooper head cheerleader, most popular girl in school. He also throws in a few nameless aqusations and how he feels about everyone else in their class.
Besides the upset principle ...more
High School Graduation speech Denis Cooverman, debate team captin, total nerd, and validictorian declares his love for Beth Cooper head cheerleader, most popular girl in school. He also throws in a few nameless aqusations and how he feels about everyone else in their class.
Besides the upset principle ...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
fans of high school flicks who find themselves saying "I wish I could READ this movie!"
although I'm unabashedly female, I read Esquire magazine without fail every month, so when this book by frequent Esquire contributor Larry Doyle came out, I figured it was worth a read.
I Love You, Beth Cooper! is a pretty funny, quick-moving, if wholly unbelievable story that would translate really well into one of those rollicking R-rated "end of high school" teen movies. I'll be incredibly surprised if the film rights for this book haven't already been purch...more
I Love You, Beth Cooper! is a pretty funny, quick-moving, if wholly unbelievable story that would translate really well into one of those rollicking R-rated "end of high school" teen movies. I'll be incredibly surprised if the film rights for this book haven't already been purch...more
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
Anyone who wants a good laugh.
Plot: Denis Cooverman is a short, sweaty nerd and extremely unpopular. When he gives his graduation speech, he confesses his love for Beth Cooper, one of his classmates, who doesn't even know that he exists. Denis invites her to his party and hilarity ensues. Beth Cooper and her friends take Denis and his friend, Rich, for a wacky ride around town. Denis gets the shit kicked out of him by Beth's army boyfriend. He also ends up loosing all of his clothes and wearing only a poncho, but best of all...more
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This is one of the funniest books I've ever read.
I'd read it when our library first got it and laughed my butt off. They just released the new paperback edition and it was even better the second time. This book is a great achievement, as far as books that can make you laugh go.
High school can either be great or it can suck. There is no in between and if you were like me and valued learning Dungeons and Dragons rules over getting loaded and laid on the weekends, then it was sucky. I laugh...more
I'd read it when our library first got it and laughed my butt off. They just released the new paperback edition and it was even better the second time. This book is a great achievement, as far as books that can make you laugh go.
High school can either be great or it can suck. There is no in between and if you were like me and valued learning Dungeons and Dragons rules over getting loaded and laid on the weekends, then it was sucky. I laugh...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
former high school nerds, current high school nerds, fans of The Simpsons
On the day of his high school graduation, debate captain Denis Cooverman makes his valedictorian speech. He stands up in front of the podium, and it starts off typical and boring enough. Until he says the following five words: "I love you, Beth Cooper." This declaration of love for the head cheerleader - as well as a few other choice statements - stuns the crowd, and sets into motion a series of events that turns Graduation Night into the craziest, most dangerous, and exhilirating n...more
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Read in September, 2007
Denis Cooverman, the valedictorian of his high school class, decides to use his commencement speech to air some dirty laundry, the get some stuff off his chest, and mostly just confess:
“I love you, Beth Cooper.”
Of course, Beth Cooper is pretty and popular and Denis is nerdy and unpopular and she has no idea who he is. This leads to one night of Denis and his best friend Rich going on a mad adventure with Beth Cooper, all the while being followed, threatened and beaten up by Beth Cooper...more
“I love you, Beth Cooper.”
Of course, Beth Cooper is pretty and popular and Denis is nerdy and unpopular and she has no idea who he is. This leads to one night of Denis and his best friend Rich going on a mad adventure with Beth Cooper, all the while being followed, threatened and beaten up by Beth Cooper...more
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Read in June, 2007
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John Hughes fans
I just started this, so I'm talking out of my ass, but early predictions say I'm gonna be giving this send up to teenage angst and misery a thumbs down for trying too hard to be clever and timely with its product name dropping and for borrowing heavily from movie quotes and references that even I, an avid film geek, find lazy and derivative. Just watch the John Hughes movies that this book yearns to be. Or better yet, read MORTIFIED: REAL PEOPLE. REAL WORDS. REAL PATHETIC edited by David Nad...more
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone
The beginning of this book has some of the funniest writing I have seen in a very long time. Although, as I noted to my friend, Amy, some of the humor might be lost on someone who was never an adolescent boy.
The middle does kind of drag on a bit, as the "main character constantly getting the crap kicked out of him" theme gets a bit overplayed. But it does end nicely.
I think every guy, at some point in high school, had a Beth Cooper. That's why it is so funny.
Mine was Chr...more
The middle does kind of drag on a bit, as the "main character constantly getting the crap kicked out of him" theme gets a bit overplayed. But it does end nicely.
I think every guy, at some point in high school, had a Beth Cooper. That's why it is so funny.
Mine was Chr...more
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Read in March, 2008
"Denis was afraid of many things. A very long list of them could be found in a manila folder in the office of Dr. Maple, the phobophilic lady psychiatrist Denis had seen from the age of five until twelve as a result of his parents having too much disposable income (Denis's therapy was completed successfully at age thirteen, a typical outcome for Dr. Maple, who suffered from ephebiphobia, a fear of teenagers). But of the myriad things Denis feared--which included, briefly, a fear of misusin...more
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Read in April, 2008
Do you enjoy movies like Superbad and Knocked Up, that have a bit of a whacked out sense of humor that is somehow so wrong yet rings so true?
Then you will enjoy reading I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle.
Denis has had a crush on Beth Cooper since the start of high school when he was seated behind her in class. Beth doesn't know he exists. But when Denis gets up to give his graduation speech, he decides to proclaim his love for the star cheerleader. And it just gets crazier from t...more
Then you will enjoy reading I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle.
Denis has had a crush on Beth Cooper since the start of high school when he was seated behind her in class. Beth doesn't know he exists. But when Denis gets up to give his graduation speech, he decides to proclaim his love for the star cheerleader. And it just gets crazier from t...more
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Chick lit doesn't really do it for me. Thank god Larry Doyle isn't a chick.
If he was, I might have found "I Love You Beth Cooper" to be cheesy, nauseating and a little bit pathetic. But coming from the perspective of a lovelorn geek with his heart on his sleeve, I thought it was endearing, quirky and totally funny.
His main character Denis Cooverman, a valedictorian with hyperactive sweat glands, uses his moment at the podium to declare his love for Beth Cooper, the head cheer...more
If he was, I might have found "I Love You Beth Cooper" to be cheesy, nauseating and a little bit pathetic. But coming from the perspective of a lovelorn geek with his heart on his sleeve, I thought it was endearing, quirky and totally funny.
His main character Denis Cooverman, a valedictorian with hyperactive sweat glands, uses his moment at the podium to declare his love for Beth Cooper, the head cheer...more
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Read in September, 2007
This is such a guy's book, but I still found it totally hysterical. Doyle is a former Simpson's writer and now writes for The New Yorker. This book has all the elements of a geek movie - unpopular valedictorian Denis Cooverman takes his chance at commencement to profess his love for head-cheerleader Beth Cooper. Surprise surprise, Beth Cooper and her two friends ("The Trinity" to Denis and his friend, Rich) stop over at Denis' later that night and become embroiled in a turf war with Be...more
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Read in May, 2008
Doyle, who used to write for "The Simpsons" has a pretty good take on high school life today. The set-up is great, and while the book sometimes drops into crassness and raunchy behavior, so does a lot of high school life. Still, Denis Cooverman, the protagonist, is likeable and funny, if a little unbelievable (no high schooler knows THAT much about medicine, the law, AND quantum theory, even if he is valedictorian and captain of the debate team), and the fact that Beth Cooper turns out...more
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Read in March, 2008
It started off promising... really, it did. I'll admit it, I was a nerd in high school, so I can relate to Denis Cooverman a little bit. He uses his time at the podium during his high school graduation ceremony (valedictorian, of course) to criticize some of his classmates before professing his love for popular girl Beth Cooper.
The promising beginning didn't really go anywhere, unfortunately. Denis, who was repeatedly beaten up and made fun of during his school career, continues to be b...more
The promising beginning didn't really go anywhere, unfortunately. Denis, who was repeatedly beaten up and made fun of during his school career, continues to be b...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Skottie Young (by way of Around Comics) recommends it for: Fans of good Teen Angst comedies (Can't Hardly Wait/John Hughes flicks)
This book isn't perfect, but the reading experience was so fun that I gave it five stars. If you try hard enough you can poke holes in anything, but if the over-all experience is this satisfying why try?
I have a hard time connecting with humor in books. Maybe it's because I control the delivery, but the fact remains that I'm not one to laugh out loud often when reading. Which makes this book extra awesome since I found myself laughing quite often.
The humor could be a little crass at time...more
I have a hard time connecting with humor in books. Maybe it's because I control the delivery, but the fact remains that I'm not one to laugh out loud often when reading. Which makes this book extra awesome since I found myself laughing quite often.
The humor could be a little crass at time...more
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This definitely feels like a '80s John Hughes movie. As much as I liked this book I did feel as if there were still a handful of problems with it; such as: Larry Doyle doesn't know how to incorporate his "big" words well. It felt as if he just studied really hard through his SAT word flash cards and memorized as many of them as he could for his work. The "big" words stick awkwardly from the rest of his sentences, which for the most part, are fairly simple constructed sente...more
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Read in February, 2008
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John Trembly
Dennis Cooverman is the archetypal geek, and in an attempt to break the stereotype, he confesses his unrequited love for the cheerleader of his dreams during his valedictorian speech to his senior class at graduation. This sets in motion a series of events that results in one of the funniest novels I have read in some time. Imagine Christopher Moore writing a coming of age novel filled with teen hormones, parties and the age old geek vs. jock dynamic and you get the idea. Doyle turns the very cl...more
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Read in October, 2007
Oh boy. There's no question that Larry Doyle is clever, and I'm enough of a fangirl to have picked this up because I think the Simpsons is one of the best-written shows (if not always the most consistent, but that's what happens when you've been on for One. Billion. Seasons) on television. But you know? I liked this better as a movie. Almost any of them. There's a reason that there's a teenage misfit movie genre--it's a formula that works, sometimes brilliantly, sometimes not. But it's muc...more
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