Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Be More Chill
Book Review: Creative, hilarious, but above all, realistic
Summary: 5 Stars
From the start this book sounds like your typical high school storyline. An unpopular kid tries to get popular and get the girl he wants.
Doesn't seem like a work of genius, until a rip in reality forms and through this hole enters the squip: a quantum computer that goes in your brain and tells you what to do to be cool. However, the mesh between computer and brain isn't as perfect as the character would like and though-provoking and entertaining situations ensue.
This alone would give the book 5 stars, but the other thing about this book that made me a fan of Ned Vezzini was how realistic it was. As a seasoned veteran and participant in that on-going war known as "Being a student in a public school", this book without a doubt gives the most realistic account of what its like to be a student in the 2nd millenium. The only book that comes close to this is The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. It reveals the savage barbarity that kids go to strike eachother down, the depraved emotions that the unpopular feel and the glory of being recongnized as cool. Obviously Ned Vezzini isn't afraid to soften the experience of living in a public school, he expresses the experience exquisitely with all the foul language and sex that's necessary to show people what its like.
This is one of the best books I've ever read. BUY IT NOW.
Book Review: I guess I'm addicted to Vizzini's books...
Summary: 5 Stars
...I read his first and liked it. After raving on this site, I went for his second book and wasn't dissapointed. The plot is as random as they get -- I kid who takes a "cool" pill and his adventures, and also, his liking for girls with tails. (Dont ask, just read) But somehow, you believe and sympathize with it all, and laugh along the way. Book Review: Just Say No to Bad Writing
Summary: 1 Stars
Once again another fine example of intruiging meaningless chatter from a desperate loser trying to find ways to be "cooler" so that he can get into a girl's pants. Is it any wonder that this guy needs to take a pill to become cool, just like the bridge and tunnel meatheads who slip ruffies into a girl's drink? Give me a break. It's amazing how much literary filth such as Vizzini's collection of misspent sentences and paragraphs, finds its way upon bookstore shelves. Clearly this wildly uninteresting collection of rancid rambling is another ploy by the publishing industry to fatten their wallets at the expense of millions of brain-cells.
"Teen Angst ... Naah" was hugely unimpressive and Vizzini follows his ode to perpetual idiocy with yet another example of his insurmountable self-absorption. Adding insult to injury this time however, "Be More Chill" displays Vizzini's unfortunate need to vicariously live through his drone of a protagonist, and inform the world about his supposed sexual adventures. But then again what else would you expect from a "writer" who has his own website in celebration of who else ... but himself. This writer's unabashed attempts to become the Paris Hilton of the literary scene is no more displayed then the site that contains letters and pictures from fans who are not yet old enough to understand that Vizzini is the manifestation of a talentless meatball.
After putting myself into intellectual peril by actually reading this self indulgent scuzz, I found myself looking for the nearest toilet bowl so that I could vomit up the putrescence that began to grow on, and attack my poor brain. I could feel my will to live waning as the education my parent's spent thousands of dollars on, began to leak out of my brain like the ooze does from the pimple-faced fan base that Vizzini boasts. If there is any lesson to be had in this waste of trees it's that Vizzini should consider an OD of his own squips so that maybe he'd finally become cool enough to know when to stop introducing the world to his dangerously stupid perversion, lest it begin to infect the innocent adolescents of the world who are not yet mentally strong enough to fight his defunct attempt at the art of writing.
Frankly if I were given the choice to either subject myself to this abhorrence again, or to poke my eyes out with the two pointiest pencils on earth, it wouldn't be a tough choice. I'd go with the pencils.
Book Review: be more chill
Summary: 5 Stars
i thought be more chill was wonderfull. i read it in 1 day and found myself immersed in it and conncerned with it more so then everything else around me. i loved it. it "tells it like it is". it tells the truth about teenage and highschool life while ignoring the cliches. its a wonderful and funny book and i would recomend it to everyone 12-21
i wouldnt recomend it for anyones parents though, lol
Book Review: The drawbacks of technology
Summary: 5 Stars
Hearing voices is never a good thing, unless the voices are coming from your squip. No, not script --- squip. Google "squip" and you'll come up with a boring kill-the-space-aliens game and some information about a supercomputer the size of an aspirin, currently illegal to use. Swallow the computer and become cool. Get all the girls, or guys. Dress sharp. Learn to flirt and drive, and generally be more chill.
Jeremy Heere, hopeless nerd, wants to date beautiful Christine Caniglia. He knows she's way out of his league, until he acquires a squip, which guides him through a physical and mental transformation. Following the squip's instructions on how to dress, speak, kiss, act and exercise, Jeremy rises above his geek status and becomes --- dare he say it --- popular.
This, of course, comes with a few problems. Computers, for all their quantum mechanics, can't quite get the hang of human emotions, like love and friendship. They can't understand why Jeremy wants to take his geeky best friend Michael to a party featuring the hottest girls in school. And while they may tell Jeremy what to say to Christine, they can only calculate so many possible outcomes of the conversation. Jeremy's squip eventually leads him to disaster, and he has to figure out what he's going to do all on his own.
Sarcastic, sexy (well, Jeremy wishes there was sex) and hilarious, this thought-provoking book is not to be missed by anyone who has ever wanted the impossible. The larger-than-life characters fit in perfectly with the idea of a pill-sized computer running Jeremy's life at Leni Lenape High School. This book, however, is far from fluffy. It raises some important questions as to how far one person will go to impress another and the depth of honesty needed in human relationships.
--- Reviewed by Carlie Webber