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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It is very realistic . VERY realistic. I didn't like the ending at first because it was too real but I guess life is not a fairy tale. :/
What an extraordinary book. The characters feel really real and are really interesting.
Another one I’ve started a few times and finally found my way through. I was interested because I felt like the movie left me with questions. Now I realize that that feeling is true to the original story in a big bad way.
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As it started, I enjoyed this book, was actually reading it before watching the movie (love Miles Teller). I was pulled into the characters, felt invested. The book was coming to a close and I was intrigued on figuring out the ending. I turned the page….and it was done. I kept turning pages like, wait. What?? I threw the book across the room (used paperback, it was already a mess), just exasperated. It was a letdown. I didn’t even bother with the movie, though I’m sure Hollywood concocted some kind of conclusion….I’ll never know.
One of the few where the movie was stronger than the book. A few key scenes gave the characters more dimension in the movie, whereas the book skimmed the surface.
Sutter Keely is your typical, all-American high school guy who's the life of the party, the ex-boyfriend girls like to stay friends with, the big guy other big guys go to for relationship advice. He lives each day as it comes without a care in the world. Sutter Keely also can't let a day pass without a drink of his favorite concoction: 7Up spiked with whisky. Or whisky with 7Up. Whatever.
On a seriously heavy drinking binge, he passes out on a random lawn and wakes up to see Aimee Finecky, a girl from school, looking down at him with worried eyes. As Sutter gets to know her, he decides she is the smartest, sweetest, most gentle, but biggest pushover and most naive girl he's ever known. And she could NOT possibly fall in love and end up with a wreck like him.
The Spectacular Now is not THAT spectacular. It's an okay book; sweet, sad, fun, angsty. Fans of David Levithan or John Green should enjoy this. The only thing I don't like about it is how it basically glorifies teenage drinking and casual sex. But our main character Sutter Keely is a deep, charismatic and caring guy, and Aimee is the ying to his yang. The ending is the most realistic ending, but somehow it still upset me and I wanted to give good ole Sutter a big sisterly hug.
On a seriously heavy drinking binge, he passes out on a random lawn and wakes up to see Aimee Finecky, a girl from school, looking down at him with worried eyes. As Sutter gets to know her, he decides she is the smartest, sweetest, most gentle, but biggest pushover and most naive girl he's ever known. And she could NOT possibly fall in love and end up with a wreck like him.
The Spectacular Now is not THAT spectacular. It's an okay book; sweet, sad, fun, angsty. Fans of David Levithan or John Green should enjoy this. The only thing I don't like about it is how it basically glorifies teenage drinking and casual sex. But our main character Sutter Keely is a deep, charismatic and caring guy, and Aimee is the ying to his yang. The ending is the most realistic ending, but somehow it still upset me and I wanted to give good ole Sutter a big sisterly hug.
To really understand this book, you have to understand the sheer unreliability of its narrator. Sutter wants to present his story as a series of good times, of "spectacular nows." In reality, this is a beautiful nightmare about an intelligent, sensitive individual who is utterly helpless against his own demons, even with the assistance of everyone around him. Supposedly it was turned into a heartwarming romance by Hollywood. Because, you know, Hollywood. And probably because it's so easy to believe Sutter when he tells you that everything is fine. Even the screenplay adapter was tricked into thinking this was a mostly happy story, like so many of the people who have read it.