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kiwhales 's review for:
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I love this movie, but hadn't actually read the book it was based on until I was trying to find the soundtrack on Spotify (is there no officially released version? For a movie about music? I digress.)
This was a great listen for my drives home. The narrators were both great and lively and very easy to follow. The book followed Nick and Norah much more closely than the movie did, which I thought worked well. There was less of a focus on the side characters (except maybe Tris), but a lot of internal dialogue from both Nick and Norah, so it balanced out.
Speaking of Tris, we really get to see more of her and she' much more fleshed out in this book than in the movie. There was a lot more homoerotic push/pull between her and Norah than I was expecting, and while I couldn't handle a friendship like theirs, it seems to work pretty okay for them!
One thing I will say is that you can definitely tell this book was written in the early aughts, so reading it now in 2025 was a little bit of a trip. Sure it had its cringey parts, but it's definitely a relic of its time.
This was a great listen for my drives home. The narrators were both great and lively and very easy to follow. The book followed Nick and Norah much more closely than the movie did, which I thought worked well. There was less of a focus on the side characters (except maybe Tris), but a lot of internal dialogue from both Nick and Norah, so it balanced out.
Speaking of Tris, we really get to see more of her and she' much more fleshed out in this book than in the movie. There was a lot more homoerotic push/pull between her and Norah than I was expecting, and while I couldn't handle a friendship like theirs, it seems to work pretty okay for them!
One thing I will say is that you can definitely tell this book was written in the early aughts, so reading it now in 2025 was a little bit of a trip. Sure it had its cringey parts, but it's definitely a relic of its time.