carissaabc 's review for:

Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini

2.0

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i was hoping for more from this book. it’s about a geeky kid who finds out about a new invention called a “squip” which is essentially a microcomputer in pill form that you can swallow and then you have your very own jiminy cricket inside your head, only instead of keeping you out of trouble, the squip can teach you how to be “cool.” apparently in mr. vizzini’s world, coolness is only acheiveable by buying expensive clothes at the mall, smoking pot, swearing a lot, drinking, skipping class and having indiscriminate sex. i’m sure this is also true in some parts of the real world, but as someone who survived high school without any of these vices and who doesn’t consider herself to have been a total dweeb… i’m a bit put off. ok, maybe i skipped one or two classes. (or maybe i didn’t do that until college…) it was an okay book and i will give the author points for also creating an interesting online trail to follow, but i’m not sure i could comfortably recommend this book to the young teens i meet at work.