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Sutter Keely is a lot of fun. The life of the party! All his girlfriends have the greatest time with him. So, why do they all break up with him? Don't they LIKE having fun? So, he enjoys drinking - what's wrong with that? It's not like he's a mean drunk, at all.
As a reader, I felt like one of Sutter's girlfriends. At first, yeah, it was fun, if a little appalling, to read about Sutter's drunken adventures, giving a runaway kid a ride home while skipping school himself, meeting a shy newspaper d ...more
As a reader, I felt like one of Sutter's girlfriends. At first, yeah, it was fun, if a little appalling, to read about Sutter's drunken adventures, giving a runaway kid a ride home while skipping school himself, meeting a shy newspaper d ...more
I picked this one up because I heard the movie was coming out and I wanted to read it before I saw it. (Completely an aside: Is there ANY teen novel movie adaptation coming out in the next year that Shailene Woodley ISN'T involved in?).
I finished reading this a few weeks ago, and it has been kind of haunting me. I'm still not sure how to feel about this book, and I think in this situation this is a good thing. This is a character book -- and the character is an alcoholic. Of course, he tells yo ...more
I finished reading this a few weeks ago, and it has been kind of haunting me. I'm still not sure how to feel about this book, and I think in this situation this is a good thing. This is a character book -- and the character is an alcoholic. Of course, he tells yo ...more
The best thing about this book? Sutter's internal dialogue, which is all at once happy, jaded, sarcastic, smart, dumb, and completely charming. I laughed out loud at the way that Sutter described the other characters, the prime example being when he referred to his father's girlfriend as so solid that he'd hate to hit her with his Mitsubishi.
While the ending was realistic, I wish it had gone another way. I'm not saying I wish The Spectacular Now would have had some dreamy, romantic ending where ...more
While the ending was realistic, I wish it had gone another way. I'm not saying I wish The Spectacular Now would have had some dreamy, romantic ending where ...more
Aug 05, 2009
Agathafrye
marked it as to-read
