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A review by celia_thebookishhufflepuff
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
5.0
OMG! I haven't had time to read anything, but I checked this out because we were reading it at my school's book club. I gave myself five days to read it, but I didn't plan on finishing it the day I got it. I honestly just loved it so much and I could not put it down. It was the best! I'm so excited that there's a sequel coming out! It's the best LGBT book ever, and I just love it so much!
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The above is fifteen year old me's rant about this book, before I learned how to write actual reviews. Later that year, I talked to a professional book reviewer at my school's writers' week, and I think that changed my style into something real. Anyway, I will now write an actual review of this amazing book.
Love, Simon (the movie)
I am always inclined, except in a few very rare cases, to say the book was better than the movie. Love, Simon was one of those movies that at first, seemed like an almost perfect replica. Granted, I first read the book in 2016, and I saw the movie for the first time two years later, in 2018. Now, however, I realize there were a lot of discrepancies that altered the story just enough from the original novel.
For one, there's the whole way the emails and the relationship between Blue and Simon plays out. The movie neglects to mention the music that Simon loves and brings Blue to love as well, or the Oreos. I think these are pivotal points in their relationship, and are definitely things that could have been better portrayed onscreen without too much effort.
Another thing was the lack of Simon's older sister Alice in the movie. Sure, it can be argued that his younger sister Nora made up for the difference, but in the novel, Nora and Alice are very separate and distinct characters. I didn't particularly like the way Nora's character was portrayed, and the way that she differed from her character in the novel either. She looked and acted a lot younger than a freshman, and I'm not sure why the cooking as her hobby was such a significant part of the story, when that's just not who she is in the novel.
I think the biggest thing that I misremembered, though, was the interactions between Simon and his friends in the climax of the novel. I won't give any spoilers, but I think the movie emphasized their disagreement more than it should have based on the novel.
Reading [b:Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|19547856|Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1)|Becky Albertalli|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1402915678s/19547856.jpg|27679579] again was absolutely something I needed to do. I've seen the movie twice, and I really needed to remember what I was missing. I've also been in sort of a reading slump, and rereading this amazing novel helped to get me back on track.
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The above is fifteen year old me's rant about this book, before I learned how to write actual reviews. Later that year, I talked to a professional book reviewer at my school's writers' week, and I think that changed my style into something real. Anyway, I will now write an actual review of this amazing book.
I am always inclined, except in a few very rare cases, to say the book was better than the movie. Love, Simon was one of those movies that at first, seemed like an almost perfect replica. Granted, I first read the book in 2016, and I saw the movie for the first time two years later, in 2018. Now, however, I realize there were a lot of discrepancies that altered the story just enough from the original novel.
For one, there's the whole way the emails and the relationship between Blue and Simon plays out. The movie neglects to mention the music that Simon loves and brings Blue to love as well, or the Oreos. I think these are pivotal points in their relationship, and are definitely things that could have been better portrayed onscreen without too much effort.
Another thing was the lack of Simon's older sister Alice in the movie. Sure, it can be argued that his younger sister Nora made up for the difference, but in the novel, Nora and Alice are very separate and distinct characters. I didn't particularly like the way Nora's character was portrayed, and the way that she differed from her character in the novel either. She looked and acted a lot younger than a freshman, and I'm not sure why the cooking as her hobby was such a significant part of the story, when that's just not who she is in the novel.
I think the biggest thing that I misremembered, though, was the interactions between Simon and his friends in the climax of the novel. I won't give any spoilers, but I think the movie emphasized their disagreement more than it should have based on the novel.
Reading [b:Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda|19547856|Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Creekwood, #1)|Becky Albertalli|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1402915678s/19547856.jpg|27679579] again was absolutely something I needed to do. I've seen the movie twice, and I really needed to remember what I was missing. I've also been in sort of a reading slump, and rereading this amazing novel helped to get me back on track.