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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
now that i'm reading this as a quasi-adult, I can't decide if this is sex-positive or anti-feminist
Snappy, sharp and read-in-one-sitting read with an important message about slut shaming. Apparently seen as a marmite book but I was quite in the middle - a 3.5 star read - so I definitely liked it, but didn't LOVE it... it seemed a little light when it should have been deeper, and a little deep when it should have been light in place. Interested to see the film adaptation.
I enjoyed this book. It was really funny, the characters were really cool. I enjoyed this alot better then the movie. I did read the book before the movie, but i did really like the movie even though it was really different from the book
The audiobook - not so great, actually. The reader reads like she's reading. That may sound dumb - and it is - but instead of telling a story, bringing characters to life, she's reading a book out loud. She sounds indifferent and bland, which, come to think of it, is appropriate to the characters so maybe she was a great find, as far as readers go.
So. Bianca. Bianca, dear, let's have a discussion, shall we? I have some questions I want to ask you. For instance, how is it you have any friends? For someone as self-involved and unable to listen to anyone else at all...ever...I'm surprised other humans want to hang around you. Also, aside from your assumption that Wesley's a bad guy because he flirts and there are rumors he sleeps around, what has Wesley actually done wrong? Is he a twit, a jerk, an arrogant annoyance? Sure. But what really makes him so awful? Maybe he has and maybe he hasn't had sex with every female in the school but why do you get to judge him? You're not squeaky clean either, you went off and had a seedy affair with a guy who had a girlfriend so I'm not sure how you get to throw stones. Yes, Wesley said something hurtful to you, but you hated him already and his bitchy comment just fueled your fire and you kept using it to fuel your fire. Over and over and over and over and over. I'm surprised you didn't go up like Joan of Arc. But where was that fire from in the first place? You kinda made it up. Just like you and your BFF, someone who has been your friend since kindergarten but not someone you feel you can talk to (indicating you don't actually trust her as your friend, though she seems to be going out of her way to make sure you know you're the closest of friends), decided that Jessica was fragile and needed protecting and that's why you couldn't tell her about the relationship you had with her brother. Nice of you to lie to your best pals, to expect so much from but to give so little to them.
Bianca, you're something of a judgmental bitch who is really caught up in her own little world and cannot be bothered to pay attention or feel compassion or show a little decency ever at all. Maybe it's because you don't have real feelings? Maybe that was passed down to you by your flighty mother. Remember her? You were mad at her, but not really, and then you had a chance to confront her and were all like, "Meh" and now the two of you are fine and she's buying you cutesy jewelry and hanging out at your house waiting to meet your boyfriends! Peachy! If these traits in you would have changed, had you been able to grow past the strange little box you'd constructed for yourself, had you become a flawed-but-loveable-and-growing teen, I'd have been able to cheer you on. But you didn't have to, did you? Everyone enabled you so that the environment could change and you wouldn't have to. Your dad had a couple of weeks of down-and-out, culminating in you getting smacked and called a whore and that was enough to put him right back into AA and become your dorky but loving father again. You didn't have to stand up to him. You didn't have to make a decision to stay or go to tell your mom or find his sponsor. No. He took care of it for you. Your cute boy, the one you'd pined for for years and finally got, through who knows what abilities, let you off the hook and you didn't have to even think about your actions, your feelings, your reasons to not be with him. He just let you go, nice and tidy. And now you can be with the guy you accidentally fell in love with while hating and having casual I-don't-want-to-feel-my-life addiction sex with him, despite teenagers not being able to feel love, and you're back in with your best friends who have forgiven your assholeyness in the blink of an eye. And this is why I don't like you, I don't like your story, and I won't recommend you to anyone I know...unless it's to torture someone. Or to show what unexplained low self-esteem wrapped in a blanket of self-involvement looks like.
Note to author: While I know you were young when you wrote this and might have been trying a little too hard to convince us we were in the mind of a genuine teenager, remember to be consistent. It's hard to follow a character who exclaims, "oh, mother," blah blah blah to her parent and then suddenly remembers, in the middle of a up-til-then normal conversation, that she is a teenager and is supposed to be swearing so switches from banter to fuckfuckfuckityfuckdamnhellshitfuck and then back to regular banter. Watch the lingo - sprinkle words in like you'd hear in a real conversation instead of saving expressions to dump out all at once every few paragraphs, ya know? Perhaps you know plenty of people who exclaim grandly, seemingly pulling their speech from a B&W '50's movie, and then suddenly change course to swear like a gangsta before going back to using regular words to form regular conversation. However, it's really hard to connect to a main character who does that.
So. Bianca. Bianca, dear, let's have a discussion, shall we? I have some questions I want to ask you. For instance, how is it you have any friends? For someone as self-involved and unable to listen to anyone else at all...ever...I'm surprised other humans want to hang around you. Also, aside from your assumption that Wesley's a bad guy because he flirts and there are rumors he sleeps around, what has Wesley actually done wrong? Is he a twit, a jerk, an arrogant annoyance? Sure. But what really makes him so awful? Maybe he has and maybe he hasn't had sex with every female in the school but why do you get to judge him? You're not squeaky clean either, you went off and had a seedy affair with a guy who had a girlfriend so I'm not sure how you get to throw stones. Yes, Wesley said something hurtful to you, but you hated him already and his bitchy comment just fueled your fire and you kept using it to fuel your fire. Over and over and over and over and over. I'm surprised you didn't go up like Joan of Arc. But where was that fire from in the first place? You kinda made it up. Just like you and your BFF, someone who has been your friend since kindergarten but not someone you feel you can talk to (indicating you don't actually trust her as your friend, though she seems to be going out of her way to make sure you know you're the closest of friends), decided that Jessica was fragile and needed protecting and that's why you couldn't tell her about the relationship you had with her brother. Nice of you to lie to your best pals, to expect so much from but to give so little to them.
Bianca, you're something of a judgmental bitch who is really caught up in her own little world and cannot be bothered to pay attention or feel compassion or show a little decency ever at all. Maybe it's because you don't have real feelings? Maybe that was passed down to you by your flighty mother. Remember her? You were mad at her, but not really, and then you had a chance to confront her and were all like, "Meh" and now the two of you are fine and she's buying you cutesy jewelry and hanging out at your house waiting to meet your boyfriends! Peachy! If these traits in you would have changed, had you been able to grow past the strange little box you'd constructed for yourself, had you become a flawed-but-loveable-and-growing teen, I'd have been able to cheer you on. But you didn't have to, did you? Everyone enabled you so that the environment could change and you wouldn't have to. Your dad had a couple of weeks of down-and-out, culminating in you getting smacked and called a whore and that was enough to put him right back into AA and become your dorky but loving father again. You didn't have to stand up to him. You didn't have to make a decision to stay or go to tell your mom or find his sponsor. No. He took care of it for you. Your cute boy, the one you'd pined for for years and finally got, through who knows what abilities, let you off the hook and you didn't have to even think about your actions, your feelings, your reasons to not be with him. He just let you go, nice and tidy. And now you can be with the guy you accidentally fell in love with while hating and having casual I-don't-want-to-feel-my-life addiction sex with him, despite teenagers not being able to feel love, and you're back in with your best friends who have forgiven your assholeyness in the blink of an eye. And this is why I don't like you, I don't like your story, and I won't recommend you to anyone I know...unless it's to torture someone. Or to show what unexplained low self-esteem wrapped in a blanket of self-involvement looks like.
Note to author: While I know you were young when you wrote this and might have been trying a little too hard to convince us we were in the mind of a genuine teenager, remember to be consistent. It's hard to follow a character who exclaims, "oh, mother," blah blah blah to her parent and then suddenly remembers, in the middle of a up-til-then normal conversation, that she is a teenager and is supposed to be swearing so switches from banter to fuckfuckfuckityfuckdamnhellshitfuck and then back to regular banter. Watch the lingo - sprinkle words in like you'd hear in a real conversation instead of saving expressions to dump out all at once every few paragraphs, ya know? Perhaps you know plenty of people who exclaim grandly, seemingly pulling their speech from a B&W '50's movie, and then suddenly change course to swear like a gangsta before going back to using regular words to form regular conversation. However, it's really hard to connect to a main character who does that.
I will admit, sometimes I really hated this book. It got under my skin and I just did not like what the main character was doing or saying or thinking. By the end, though, I was to the point of tears and ready to scream with joy. Maybe I'm over exaggerating, but it's true. Though the main character is not really a Duff, like she believes, this book really gets the point across. I had to skip some... awkward-for-any-normal-person-to-read scenes and swim through unnecessary swearing, but that made it all the more realistic. I was even more surprised to find that it was written by an 18 year old. Keplinger is exceptionally talented at writing and I hope to see more of this kind of book from her. Everything was worded in the way normal teens would speak and act and think. Plus, the story was well thought out and you could see every character's motives despite it being told from a first person perspective. All around a great book.
I liked The Duff because the characters felt real to me.
They used foul language and acted recklessly and while it wasn't the centerpiece to the story, it was honest in a way that a lot of young adult novels are not.
Bianca's world was realistic and flawed and proved that sometimes our reckless behaviors don't have severe consequences other than the emotional traumas we put ourselves through and that being abrasive isn't the same thing as being honest, and putting your trust in the people you care about the most is the hardest thing to do but is completely necessary.
They used foul language and acted recklessly and while it wasn't the centerpiece to the story, it was honest in a way that a lot of young adult novels are not.
Bianca's world was realistic and flawed and proved that sometimes our reckless behaviors don't have severe consequences other than the emotional traumas we put ourselves through and that being abrasive isn't the same thing as being honest, and putting your trust in the people you care about the most is the hardest thing to do but is completely necessary.
More like a 2.75
I had really high hopes for this book. I picked it up because I saw the trailer for the movie and it seemed like something I would enjoy so I wanted to pick the book up before I watched the movie which comes out In late February.
First off I would like to say it is very different from what the trailer would suggest, which kind of bummed me out because the tone and storyline of the trailer is what drew me to this book in the first place. The first half of this book I didn't enjoy all that much. It was okay but I found myself so annoyed at the characters and their choices. I just wanted to smack them upside the head at points. I liked the second half more than the first I think it was because of the sap factor and the fact that things started to round out better in the second half. The writing was not something that I would write home about either.
I really wanted to like this book. Maybe I will pick it up again in the future just in case it just wasn't the right time for me to read it and maybe I'll like it more then but I was really dissappointed.
I had really high hopes for this book. I picked it up because I saw the trailer for the movie and it seemed like something I would enjoy so I wanted to pick the book up before I watched the movie which comes out In late February.
First off I would like to say it is very different from what the trailer would suggest, which kind of bummed me out because the tone and storyline of the trailer is what drew me to this book in the first place. The first half of this book I didn't enjoy all that much. It was okay but I found myself so annoyed at the characters and their choices. I just wanted to smack them upside the head at points. I liked the second half more than the first I think it was because of the sap factor and the fact that things started to round out better in the second half. The writing was not something that I would write home about either.
I really wanted to like this book. Maybe I will pick it up again in the future just in case it just wasn't the right time for me to read it and maybe I'll like it more then but I was really dissappointed.
Un libro totalmente disfrutable y lleno de amor.
Aparentemente comienza al revés: odio, sexo, encaprichamiento, confesiones y más odio.
Original y cínico.
Bianca se ganó mi respeto y demuestra con este libro que todos somos Duff's.
No es un libro hueco, también esta de cierta manera alejado de la realidad, pero entrega un potente mensaje (':
Aparentemente comienza al revés: odio, sexo, encaprichamiento, confesiones y más odio.
Original y cínico.
Bianca se ganó mi respeto y demuestra con este libro que todos somos Duff's.
No es un libro hueco, también esta de cierta manera alejado de la realidad, pero entrega un potente mensaje (':
Entretenimiento americano, no aporta la gran cosa, sus personajes son malos y no es memorable, es como una película Teen de Nexflix: Igual de cliché y mala. Pero aún así es entretenida.
Skvělá knížka, něco takového bych od YA contemporary nečekala. S Biancou se dokážu stotožnit, úplně se v ní vidím, a Weasley. Aaaaaach!