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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378579.I_Love_You_Beth_Cooper?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="I Love You, Beth Cooper" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174314554m/378579.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378579.I_Love_You_Beth_Cooper?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">I Love You, Beth Cooper</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/215658.Larry_Doyle">Larry Doyle</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16385663?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 "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 misusing the word myriad--the thing he feared most often and most enthusiastically was the future.
 
 "[...:]Rich had had a much less tragedy-free life. We needn't go into the details, since it's a long, sad and ultimately unoriginal story, but as a result Rich had developed a coping mechanism by which all of the terrible things that happened to him were merely wacky complications that would, before the movie of his life was over, be resolved in an audience-pleasing happy ending. He occasionally worried that his life might be an independent film, or worse, a Swedish flick, but he chose to behave as if the movie he lived was a raucous teen comedy and he was somebody like Ferris Beuller or Otter from Animal House, or, worst-case scenario, that guy who fucked a pie."
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"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 misusing the word myriad--the thing he feared most often and most enthusiastically was the future.

"[...:]Rich had had a much less tragedy-free life. We needn't go into the details, since it's a long, sad and ultimately unoriginal story, but as a result Rich had developed a coping mechanism by which all of the terrible things that happened to him were merely wacky complications that would, before the movie of his life was over, be resolved in an audience-pleasing happy ending. He occasio...more

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message 1: by Jane

03/17/2008 08:54AM

I am immediately placing a hold on this book.