Mention Epithetical Books The Spectacular Now
| Title | : | The Spectacular Now |
| Author | : | Tim Tharp |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | October 20th 2008 by Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Fiction. Romance. Realistic Fiction. Coming Of Age. Teen |
Tim Tharp
Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.52 | 39451 Users | 4357 Reviews
Description As Books The Spectacular Now
This National Book Award Finalist is now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about films at Sundance 2013, starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller. SUTTER KEELY. HE’S the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ ll get everyone in your parents’ pool. Okay, so he’s not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men’s shirts for a living. But there are plenty of ladies in town, and with the help of Dean Martin and Seagram’s V.O., life’s pretty fabuloso, actually. Until the morning he wakes up on a random front lawn, and he meets Aimee. Aimee’s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help, and it’s up to the Sutterman to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. 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.Describe Books In Favor Of The Spectacular Now
| Original Title: | The Spectacular Now |
| ISBN: | 0375851798 (ISBN13: 9780375851797) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sutter Keely, Aimee Finecky |
| Setting: | Oklahoma(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2008), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2014) |
Rating Epithetical Books The Spectacular Now
Ratings: 3.52 From 39451 Users | 4357 ReviewsArticle Epithetical Books The Spectacular Now
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 newspaperOn finishing The Spectacular Now I feel hollowed out and slightly sick not because the ending was bad but because as much as I didnt want it to, it ended in probably the most realistic way it could. Part of me wants to gouge whatever scraps of hope I can from the close of Sutters story, hold onto the hints that things can and will eventually change, because not doing that hurts so much. I want to pretend that last chapter doesnt exist, but in way, its that last chapter that makes this book what
Surprisingly mediocre. After all the hype about this book and the movie, I really thought this would be one of those The Perks of Being a Wallflower type of books: a little coming-of-age, contemporary, slice-of-life YAbut also incredibly profound and heartbreaking in the subtlest of ways.But nope. I felt like I was reading on and on, waiting for THE plot, which never really came. Sutter and Aimee were really boring characters, though it sounded like they were SUPPOSED to be the cliche cool guy /
"Life is a big, screwed-up joke with its ups and downs. The best way to deal with it is to live in the now, pursue all the pleasure and deal with none of the grief." That's the message I get from Sutter Keely, protagonist of The Spectacular Now. He takes a purely hedonistic, somewhat philosophical world view throughout the book. Tharp gives Sutton a clear, blunt, narrative voice but when it comes to character development, Sutter stays the same person from point A to point B, even with inserting
Im not sure if this book would have affected me quite as much if I didnt know this boy. He is one of the people that I love the most on this planet, and he shares more DNA with me than anyone else. Hes intelligent, effortlessly popular, charming, kind, and entertaining. He has a big heart, fragile and exposed. We once spent hours in our backyard collecting slugs and setting them up in their very own tree stump castle. Once when he was facing a spanking, we schemed and plotted, arming ourselves
Holy crap, this is a good book. A heavy book. This is one of those books that I went into thinking it was going to be a romance with a message, but pretty all-around feel-good. No. Nope. I mean, yeah, there's a message, all right, but this book isn't exactly a fluffy candy feel-good story. So don't go into it thinking it will be. It's funny and philosophical and introspective and reminiscent. Sutter's voice is so authentically teenager that it's obvious Tim Tharp never completely forgot that
Everyone knows that if you want a good time, you call Sutter Keely. Hes the guy with a bar in his boot, enough whisky in his flask to go round and he doesnt know the meaning of the word embarrassment. Theres no doubt that Sutter is the life of any party but when it comes to relationships, he fizzes pretty quick. Hes accumulated a string of ex-girlfriends in his eighteen years, and remained friends with every single one of them. But right now hes hoping to hold on to his current girlfriend, the
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