Anonymous College Student

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Book 61 of my 2015 book challenge

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

The Blurb:

Sutter’s the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ll get everyone in your parents’ pool. He has no plans for university and will probably end up folding men’s shirts for a living. But right now life’s pretty fabuloso.

Until he meets Aimee. Aimee’s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help. It’s up to Sutter to show her a splendiferous time and let her go.

But Aimee’s not like other girls and before long he’s in way over his head. For the first time in his life, he has the power to make a difference in someone else’s life — or ruin it forever.

My Thoughts:

I saw the film The Spectacular Now last year, mainly because of Shailene Woodley … and when I found out Miles Teller was in it too; I kind of wanted to see it, if not only to see him as something else as the ‘evil’ Peter in Divergent. I’m not sure I like the film or not, it wasn’t exactly bad but it wasn’t spectacularly good either. It’ll probably be one of those films I’ll have up on the shelf, but that I won’t watch more than a couple of times. I did however think like there was something missing, especially towards the end. Which brings me to why I read the book. Usually reading the book that is the base of the film will answer any questions you may have gotten while seeing the film. However, that wasn’t the case here. After reading the book, I don’t have the same feeling as if something is missing, as I did when I saw the film. But … I don’t know … I’m not sure I got the whole point of it either. Just like the film, the book is neither good nor bad, which is why I’m giving it a …

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