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alsoiread's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
bgee99's review against another edition
4.0
Not what I was expecting towards the end, however still a good read after every chapter
valeriaana_reads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.75
cupofteenspirit's review against another edition
1.0
rare occurrence of excellent movie, terrible book.
sophiaknudsen's review against another edition
4.0
The idea of the game, Nerve, is sadistic and freaky. But from a reader's standpoint, it is thrilling and enticing. I kind of feel bad for liking it so much because it was very twisted, but it just sucked me in!
carlisajc's review against another edition
2.0
Maybe it’s my fault because I saw the movie first, but the stakes in this one just weren’t super high. I enjoyed the movie but felt pretty meh about the book.
guillevaldata's review against another edition
3.0
El libro no es malo, tiene una trama bastante original e interesante, y en sí, esta bastante bueno. Mi problema es que no disfrute su lectura. Nerve es de género thriller, y leer las situaciones en las cuales Nerve metía a Vee me generaba malestar. Sentí literalmente que estaba leyendo algo como el juego de miedo, es por eso que no me gusto como yo quería.
Juzgando el libro y no mis gustos creo que el libro tuvo 2 fallas, una fue con una prueba que fue completamente confusa y siento que estuvo muy mal escrita, y después fue el personaje de Vee.
Por momentos me cayó bien, pero la odie mucho la mayoría de las veces. Hacía todo sin pensar claramente y siempre tomaba las peores decisiones. Eso me sacaba de quicio.
Fuera de eso, el libro al final tiene 2 giros inesperados que me sorprendieron para bien, y el final fue muy muy creepy.
El libro en general es creepy, todo el tiempo me daba mala vibra todo lo que pasaba. Además te das cuenta que hay gente realmente idiota que por plata harían lo que fuera, hasta matar a alguien.
Le dí 3 estrellas porque creo que es un buen libro aunque no me haya gustado y ahora quiero ver la película porque esta Emma Roberts <3 (Aunque Vee es morena, pero bueno)
Juzgando el libro y no mis gustos creo que el libro tuvo 2 fallas, una fue con una prueba que fue completamente confusa y siento que estuvo muy mal escrita, y después fue el personaje de Vee.
Por momentos me cayó bien, pero la odie mucho la mayoría de las veces. Hacía todo sin pensar claramente y siempre tomaba las peores decisiones. Eso me sacaba de quicio.
Fuera de eso, el libro al final tiene 2 giros inesperados que me sorprendieron para bien, y el final fue muy muy creepy.
El libro en general es creepy, todo el tiempo me daba mala vibra todo lo que pasaba. Además te das cuenta que hay gente realmente idiota que por plata harían lo que fuera, hasta matar a alguien.
Le dí 3 estrellas porque creo que es un buen libro aunque no me haya gustado y ahora quiero ver la película porque esta Emma Roberts <3 (Aunque Vee es morena, pero bueno)
ingo_lembcke's review against another edition
4.0
Switched the edition on Goodreads to the Movie-tie-in-Cover (Kindle-Version).
Hope to finish it 2016, today being December 30th, 2016. Reading this together with the Circle, an incredibly boring book, which covers some of the same problems (no privacy, paranoia, etc.) with a different premise, which sounded interesting, but the writing is so bad, I will probably never start a book by [a:Dave Eggers|3371|Dave Eggers|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1432065054p2/3371.jpg] again.
Both books have also been filmed so there is more to compare, I already bought Nerve as a Blu-ray, will probably try to watch Circle as cheap as possible (Netflix/Prime or a used Blu-ray).
Finished the book just minutes after Midnight December 31st, 2016.
Wanted to watch the movie after breakfast, but my Blu-ray player shows wrong region, which I will switch later and watch another movie instead.
The book is a reasonable fast read and I strongly recommend to read in a few days. As I did not, the prologue was lost on me, after I finished the book, I skimmed it again, to check the names and put it into the context. As I do not remember names too well (sometimes I am a numbers kind of guy, but mostly I just do not remember, getting old...), I thought the person in the prologue was "V" - the MC, but it was not, my bad. Also later in the book they talk about part of what happened in the prologue, but tell mostly what happened exactly after the prologue which muddled it for me.
In the book, something that sure will come to pass in a short while, the viewers are aptly called Watchers and film the tasks with their smartphones or cameras, for the chance to get credit or things they crave. This also true for participants in the NERVE-game, they do it for getting expensive things or services (like payed for education) they crave.
Recommended for the fair warning about the direction shows like Big Brother and the like might go. As I do not watch a lot current live TV, and I hate shows like "Candid Camera" -German "Verstehen sie Spass?" says it all, roughly translated as "Do you understand fun?", not my kind of show, I do not consider this kind of pranks fun and cannot laugh about that, so my answer is a firm "No" with capital "N", this confirmed my worst fears: I just see someone pick this up as a manual and develops a show like it.
Probably only money reasons and the fact that nearly everything is traceable nowadays will stop them, but other shows are not too far from it - "I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!" comes to mind, I think, as far as I know about that show.
While I can see the appeal for some viewers, even participating with voting per internet or phone, I find that whole lot absolute cringe-worthy.
That also made it a little harder for me to read this fast, I cringed the whole book, fearing for the next task. So while well written and technically correct and imho today not even a bit SF, I think all is possible, it was a little by-the numbers and gets only 4 stars from me.
Recommended and way better - as a warning - than [b:The Circle|18302455|The Circle|Dave Eggers|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1376419833s/18302455.jpg|25791820].
As for the warning, though going in a quite different direction, I suggest [b:ZERO|20871473|ZERO|Marc Elsberg|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1392831945s/20871473.jpg|40209932] (look for english translation).
Information or a comparison with the movie will be added after viewing that, hopefully today or tomorrow (wah, that would be next year...).
Hope to finish it 2016, today being December 30th, 2016. Reading this together with the Circle, an incredibly boring book, which covers some of the same problems (no privacy, paranoia, etc.) with a different premise, which sounded interesting, but the writing is so bad, I will probably never start a book by [a:Dave Eggers|3371|Dave Eggers|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1432065054p2/3371.jpg] again.
Both books have also been filmed so there is more to compare, I already bought Nerve as a Blu-ray, will probably try to watch Circle as cheap as possible (Netflix/Prime or a used Blu-ray).
Finished the book just minutes after Midnight December 31st, 2016.
Wanted to watch the movie after breakfast, but my Blu-ray player shows wrong region, which I will switch later and watch another movie instead.
The book is a reasonable fast read and I strongly recommend to read in a few days. As I did not, the prologue was lost on me, after I finished the book, I skimmed it again, to check the names and put it into the context. As I do not remember names too well (sometimes I am a numbers kind of guy, but mostly I just do not remember, getting old...), I thought the person in the prologue was "V" - the MC, but it was not, my bad. Also later in the book they talk about part of what happened in the prologue, but tell mostly what happened exactly after the prologue which muddled it for me.
In the book, something that sure will come to pass in a short while, the viewers are aptly called Watchers and film the tasks with their smartphones or cameras, for the chance to get credit or things they crave. This also true for participants in the NERVE-game, they do it for getting expensive things or services (like payed for education) they crave.
Recommended for the fair warning about the direction shows like Big Brother and the like might go. As I do not watch a lot current live TV, and I hate shows like "Candid Camera" -German "Verstehen sie Spass?" says it all, roughly translated as "Do you understand fun?", not my kind of show, I do not consider this kind of pranks fun and cannot laugh about that, so my answer is a firm "No" with capital "N", this confirmed my worst fears: I just see someone pick this up as a manual and develops a show like it.
Probably only money reasons and the fact that nearly everything is traceable nowadays will stop them, but other shows are not too far from it - "I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!" comes to mind, I think, as far as I know about that show.
While I can see the appeal for some viewers, even participating with voting per internet or phone, I find that whole lot absolute cringe-worthy.
That also made it a little harder for me to read this fast, I cringed the whole book, fearing for the next task. So while well written and technically correct and imho today not even a bit SF, I think all is possible, it was a little by-the numbers and gets only 4 stars from me.
Recommended and way better - as a warning - than [b:The Circle|18302455|The Circle|Dave Eggers|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1376419833s/18302455.jpg|25791820].
As for the warning, though going in a quite different direction, I suggest [b:ZERO|20871473|ZERO|Marc Elsberg|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1392831945s/20871473.jpg|40209932] (look for english translation).
Information or a comparison with the movie will be added after viewing that, hopefully today or tomorrow (wah, that would be next year...).