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daisysbookmusings 's review for:
The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
INCLUDES SPOILERS (slightly...)
As I had watched the film first I thought I already knew the story line and the characters but instead the film is rather different from the original story in the book. This normally never happens but I did prefer the film, I found the main character Sutter to be rather obnoxious and at the beginning I admired his light hearted outlook on life and how memories are being made this very moment so why waste it but as the book went on the act wore thin with me. I didn't feel like I got to know the real Sutter but I guess everyone who is suppose to be close to him in the book doesn't either and I really didn't like the ending much as it almost seems to me as if he gives up on life at the end by just staying the same and accepting he will not move any further and the best of his years have been and gone now that everyone dis moving to university rather than embracing the future and the inevitability of growing up. I didn't really understand if he did truly love Amiee till near the end but he chooses to push her away and throughout the novel he seems to refer to Cassidy in such a way that it made the idea of him moving along and embracing the idea of Amiee incredibly fake which put me off him as a character. I also didn't much like how Amiee was portrayed in the novel as such a stereotypical geek (the kind that can only exist in books) compared to the way Shaileen Woodley played her character which gave Amiee a realistic idea of what a 'inexperienced geek that had to be saved' was really which is nothing but a normal school girl who has chosen to not go out and get drunk all the time. It's not a bad read but I had to force myself to get through it a bit but I am glad I watched the film before hand otherwise I think I may have given up with reading the novel. Take from this what you will I feel like I have been incredibly negative and thats not my intention I do love the way Sutter views the world at the beginning of the novel and the fact that Amiee has such wonderful dreams and aspirations but I feel certain aspects of the book wear slightly thin, SORRY!
As I had watched the film first I thought I already knew the story line and the characters but instead the film is rather different from the original story in the book. This normally never happens but I did prefer the film, I found the main character Sutter to be rather obnoxious and at the beginning I admired his light hearted outlook on life and how memories are being made this very moment so why waste it but as the book went on the act wore thin with me. I didn't feel like I got to know the real Sutter but I guess everyone who is suppose to be close to him in the book doesn't either and I really didn't like the ending much as it almost seems to me as if he gives up on life at the end by just staying the same and accepting he will not move any further and the best of his years have been and gone now that everyone dis moving to university rather than embracing the future and the inevitability of growing up. I didn't really understand if he did truly love Amiee till near the end but he chooses to push her away and throughout the novel he seems to refer to Cassidy in such a way that it made the idea of him moving along and embracing the idea of Amiee incredibly fake which put me off him as a character. I also didn't much like how Amiee was portrayed in the novel as such a stereotypical geek (the kind that can only exist in books) compared to the way Shaileen Woodley played her character which gave Amiee a realistic idea of what a 'inexperienced geek that had to be saved' was really which is nothing but a normal school girl who has chosen to not go out and get drunk all the time. It's not a bad read but I had to force myself to get through it a bit but I am glad I watched the film before hand otherwise I think I may have given up with reading the novel. Take from this what you will I feel like I have been incredibly negative and thats not my intention I do love the way Sutter views the world at the beginning of the novel and the fact that Amiee has such wonderful dreams and aspirations but I feel certain aspects of the book wear slightly thin, SORRY!