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3.08 AVERAGE
3.08 AVERAGE
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.
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)
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
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...).
dark
adventurous
funny
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I didn't tooootally hate this! I think there are some interesting ideas I enjoyed like the reality TV personalities, the producers manipulating people in these shows, and offering life-changing prices to desperate people with no other choices. I do feel like it lacked a bit of depth, some of these things were superficially discussed, and the resolution was too rushed.
The book was easy to read, so I give it extra points for that. The characters were a bit simplistic. Again: too superficial, but the potential was there. Vee grated on my nerves a couple of times just because she has too much internalized misogyny. Yeah, she wasn't congruent with her actions, obviously, but I had to remind myself that she was just a teenager, her brain wasn't fully developed and she was being pressured into most of these dares. I can't expect her to act level-headed and to my liking because then there would be no book.
The romance was just filler, I didn't feel like it added anything to the story, I don't even remember his name. Tommy was a total incel waste of a character. Sydney didn't really do anything, either wrong or right in my opinion: she was just there.
I feel like I have to repeat what I did like about this book because I gave it three stars. It is a competent book, I feel like there was a clear focus on what the author wanted to achieve, the main thesis she wanted to put out there. I liked the main concepts, and the potential, some specific scenes were really nerve-wracking (that was the purpose of those scenes, to stress me the f- out). The teenager in me would have LOVED this book, I think. I'm not sure why I waited seven years to read it.
The book was easy to read, so I give it extra points for that. The characters were a bit simplistic. Again: too superficial, but the potential was there. Vee grated on my nerves a couple of times just because she has too much internalized misogyny. Yeah, she wasn't congruent with her actions, obviously, but I had to remind myself that she was just a teenager, her brain wasn't fully developed and she was being pressured into most of these dares. I can't expect her to act level-headed and to my liking because then there would be no book.
The romance was just filler, I didn't feel like it added anything to the story, I don't even remember his name. Tommy was a total incel waste of a character. Sydney didn't really do anything, either wrong or right in my opinion: she was just there.
I feel like I have to repeat what I did like about this book because I gave it three stars. It is a competent book, I feel like there was a clear focus on what the author wanted to achieve, the main thesis she wanted to put out there. I liked the main concepts, and the potential, some specific scenes were really nerve-wracking (that was the purpose of those scenes, to stress me the f- out). The teenager in me would have LOVED this book, I think. I'm not sure why I waited seven years to read it.
After watching the movie, I was so excited to read this book. I originally wanted to read the book first, but I ended up breaking my rule. Unfortunately, the movie ended up being better than this book in this case.
I love the idea of this book, but in the book version, Vee seems a lot more immature. The dares weren't as entertaining in the book, but the story was still fun.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is one of the few times that I feel like the movie is better than the book.
I love the idea of this book, but in the book version, Vee seems a lot more immature. The dares weren't as entertaining in the book, but the story was still fun.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is one of the few times that I feel like the movie is better than the book.
DNF at 60% i loved the movie so much more and the writing was odd
2 stars
I didn't hate it. I really didn't. I knew it wasn't going to be well-written going into it; I was really just looking for a guilty pleasure kind of thing that would be easy to breeze through when I couldn't sleep. There wasn't anything that seriously angered me, either--just a bunch of WTF moments, which I've bookmarked to comment on.
Page 41: Her face is serious. "Well, let's stop and think." In addition to being blond a beautiful, Syd maintains an A average. So, only straight-A students are able to reason through a problem? It's really a simple solution she comes up with: "Just act confident!" It doesn't take perfect grades to be able to stop and think for a second.
Page 44: I assure them that I was just goofing around and that everything's fine. Being in the honors program, they're both more skeptical than the rest of my friends, but they don't pursue the subject. So not being in the honors program means you have the emotional intelligence of a coffee cup?
Page 136: Sydney . . . flits around the stage with the male cast members , gay and straight, following in her wake. This is just plain stupid. If Sydney is magnetic enough that people who aren't sexually attracted to her follow her around, why isn't there a trail of girls behind her? (Assuming none of the girls would be sexually attracted to her, which, if literally everyone who's attracted to women finds Syd attractive like Vee keeps claiming, should be statistically improbable.) It's subtly promoting the "girl vs. girl" mindset, like of course the girls wouldn't follow Syd around because she's competition rather than being someone they would look up to.
Page 145: Syd worries for Vee's safety and tries to get her to quit the game. I actually liked this moment and was surprised that it was in the book. I guess it's not saying much that the book surprised me by not making Syd a "bitch" or whatever and ruining the only female friendship in this book with background. (Vee is supposedly friends with these two girls called Liv and Eulie, but they have about as much character development as red-shirts, without the dying part.)
Page 189: Tommy is an asshole to Vee and has a total moodswing. It's not his first one, but it's kind of cray. He starts off sweet and nice, then turns into a friend-zoned monster, and then is forgiven at the end of the book, which sucks. Down with Tommy!
Page 196: While our partners are off being tortured or caged with rats, the other girls and I get get together near the refreshment cabinet . . . . Why not? It strikes me that we're the weaker half in each of our couples. What. The. Fuck. I totally forgot about this. This really did piss me off. She's not even talking about physical strength, just emotional. So the guys and the butch girl are emotional rocks, but the other, more traditionally feminine girls are weaker? As though masculinity is a sign of emotional strength? Fuck this. This book started off 3 stars when I started this review bc I enjoyed it so much, but wow. This line blows.
P. 198: Hmmm. I'm thinking of myself as a cast member? Interesting. O.o You're literally a cast member. I get maybe being a little startled when you really internalize that you're a cast member, but commenting that thinking of yourself as a cast member is "interesting" when YOU ARE A CAST MEMBER is just confusing. And what's the "Hmmm" doing there? This isn't some sort of intriguing question that just occurred to you. You're referring to yourself as a cast member because WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU BE???
P. 229: We spend the next five minutes learning how to load our guns, cock the hammer, pull the slide back, and aim with one hand or both. Besides the fact you seriously cannot learn how to use a gun this fast, which I'll let slide because NERVE is hoping for maximum blood and gore, not great gun-handling, you spend most of the rest of the book wondering if the guns are loaded or not. Didn't you just learn how to load a gun? SO CHECK AND SEE IF IT'S LOADED! THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE!
P. 245: Samuel speaks up . . . "There were five shots . . . " ...how could you tell? Vee recounted it as "shots fire." Did they nicely fire one at a time? This entire scene was chaos. I mean, if Samuel could tell how many shots were fired, I'm seriously impressed.
P. 252: And the shiny wall next to the door isn't a wall, it's a one-way window. WE have Watchers only feet away. In about two pages, Vee and Ian are about to smash a couch through that window (long, stupid story). So we know the window is breakable. And we know there are watchers on the other side? And you know what else we know? There are seven untrained teenagers currently pointing guns at each other from every vantage point possible! In the dark! The likelihood of shots not going through that window are insanely low. This entire situation is an entire mess of stupid.
Also, I don't have the page number, but there's this big thing where kids killing each other is good advertising? Okayyyy, if you want the police to get super hot on your back. Speaking of police, they apparently wash their hands of NERVE, which is super confusing considering how dangerous NERVE is. I can't remember, did NERVE delete the texts or something? Because there must have been some trace left behind of something. I don't even remember if they deleted the texts or not, I may have just made that up. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The police should be investigating NERVE. The epilogue is only a month later.
Also, apparently being a celebrity is bad bc crazy people will stalk and kill you. Too bad the girl at the beginning of the book doesn't have oodles of cash to spring on bodyguards . . . oh, wait . . .
I didn't hate it. I really didn't. I knew it wasn't going to be well-written going into it; I was really just looking for a guilty pleasure kind of thing that would be easy to breeze through when I couldn't sleep. There wasn't anything that seriously angered me, either--just a bunch of WTF moments, which I've bookmarked to comment on.
Page 41: Her face is serious. "Well, let's stop and think." In addition to being blond a beautiful, Syd maintains an A average. So, only straight-A students are able to reason through a problem? It's really a simple solution she comes up with: "Just act confident!" It doesn't take perfect grades to be able to stop and think for a second.
Page 44: I assure them that I was just goofing around and that everything's fine. Being in the honors program, they're both more skeptical than the rest of my friends, but they don't pursue the subject. So not being in the honors program means you have the emotional intelligence of a coffee cup?
Page 136: Sydney . . . flits around the stage with the male cast members , gay and straight, following in her wake. This is just plain stupid. If Sydney is magnetic enough that people who aren't sexually attracted to her follow her around, why isn't there a trail of girls behind her? (Assuming none of the girls would be sexually attracted to her, which, if literally everyone who's attracted to women finds Syd attractive like Vee keeps claiming, should be statistically improbable.) It's subtly promoting the "girl vs. girl" mindset, like of course the girls wouldn't follow Syd around because she's competition rather than being someone they would look up to.
Page 145: Syd worries for Vee's safety and tries to get her to quit the game. I actually liked this moment and was surprised that it was in the book. I guess it's not saying much that the book surprised me by not making Syd a "bitch" or whatever and ruining the only female friendship in this book with background. (Vee is supposedly friends with these two girls called Liv and Eulie, but they have about as much character development as red-shirts, without the dying part.)
Page 189: Tommy is an asshole to Vee and has a total moodswing. It's not his first one, but it's kind of cray. He starts off sweet and nice, then turns into a friend-zoned monster, and then is forgiven at the end of the book, which sucks. Down with Tommy!
Page 196: While our partners are off being tortured or caged with rats, the other girls and I get get together near the refreshment cabinet . . . . Why not? It strikes me that we're the weaker half in each of our couples. What. The. Fuck. I totally forgot about this. This really did piss me off. She's not even talking about physical strength, just emotional. So the guys and the butch girl are emotional rocks, but the other, more traditionally feminine girls are weaker? As though masculinity is a sign of emotional strength? Fuck this. This book started off 3 stars when I started this review bc I enjoyed it so much, but wow. This line blows.
P. 198: Hmmm. I'm thinking of myself as a cast member? Interesting. O.o You're literally a cast member. I get maybe being a little startled when you really internalize that you're a cast member, but commenting that thinking of yourself as a cast member is "interesting" when YOU ARE A CAST MEMBER is just confusing. And what's the "Hmmm" doing there? This isn't some sort of intriguing question that just occurred to you. You're referring to yourself as a cast member because WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU BE???
P. 229: We spend the next five minutes learning how to load our guns, cock the hammer, pull the slide back, and aim with one hand or both. Besides the fact you seriously cannot learn how to use a gun this fast, which I'll let slide because NERVE is hoping for maximum blood and gore, not great gun-handling, you spend most of the rest of the book wondering if the guns are loaded or not. Didn't you just learn how to load a gun? SO CHECK AND SEE IF IT'S LOADED! THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE!
P. 245: Samuel speaks up . . . "There were five shots . . . " ...how could you tell? Vee recounted it as "shots fire." Did they nicely fire one at a time? This entire scene was chaos. I mean, if Samuel could tell how many shots were fired, I'm seriously impressed.
P. 252: And the shiny wall next to the door isn't a wall, it's a one-way window. WE have Watchers only feet away. In about two pages, Vee and Ian are about to smash a couch through that window (long, stupid story). So we know the window is breakable. And we know there are watchers on the other side? And you know what else we know? There are seven untrained teenagers currently pointing guns at each other from every vantage point possible! In the dark! The likelihood of shots not going through that window are insanely low. This entire situation is an entire mess of stupid.
Also, I don't have the page number, but there's this big thing where kids killing each other is good advertising? Okayyyy, if you want the police to get super hot on your back. Speaking of police, they apparently wash their hands of NERVE, which is super confusing considering how dangerous NERVE is. I can't remember, did NERVE delete the texts or something? Because there must have been some trace left behind of something. I don't even remember if they deleted the texts or not, I may have just made that up. Anyway, it doesn't matter. The police should be investigating NERVE. The epilogue is only a month later.
Also, apparently being a celebrity is bad bc crazy people will stalk and kill you. Too bad the girl at the beginning of the book doesn't have oodles of cash to spring on bodyguards . . . oh, wait . . .