Nick's review
I Love You, Beth Cooper
by Larry Doyle
I agree--still liked it, but damn if it didn't feel like it's own worst enemy--too cool for itself, distracting from the overall enjoyable-ness of the book. And it was enjoyable.
Nick's review
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
Nick's review
rating:
recommended for: 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 Nadelberg which documents real journal entries from people from their pre-teens up through high school. EVEN BETTER YET, re-read your own journal or flip through a year book. Believe me, it's all still there waiting to haunt you.
A SECOND OPINION:
I wanted to keep my above review, because while it was written only 100 pages into my reading, I think its argument over those first 100 pages stands. HOWEVER, the book did seem to hit its stride soon after that and either it lost some of its &...more
A SECOND OPINION:
I wanted to keep my above review, because while it was written only 100 pages into my reading, I think its argument over those first 100 pages stands. HOWEVER, the book did seem to hit its stride soon after that and either it lost some of its &...more
I agree--still liked it, but damn if it didn't feel like it's own worst enemy--too cool for itself, distracting from the overall enjoyable-ness of the book. And it was enjoyable.