Yawn
This book is ripped from those high school movies in the 1980s and 1990s that featured the usual cliques (nerds, cheerleaders, etc.) and their interactions. In this novel, the apparent geek was Denis Cooverman. During his valedictorian speech, he decided to spill his guts about his feelings concerning various people in the school, included his hidden love for the cheerleader, Beth Cooper. Denis and his friend Rich, along with Beth Cooper and her three friends, eventually experience a wild night of partying, fights, drinking, crazy driving, and sexual encounters.
This book even features quotes from the various teen flicks from which it grew. Included are such greats like The Breakfast Club, Napoleon Dynamite, American Pie, Dazed and Confused, Clueless, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. This should have been a clue.
Another clue that this book was bad was Tom Perrotta's endorsement of this book. Perrotta was the author of Little Children, another terrible book that included a character named Tony Corrente, the name of a terrible NFL referee.
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While I agree that a lot of the plot was total cliche, i still really liked Denis Cooverman and to some extent Beth Cooper. I thought the book was a lot of mindless fun, just like so many of those 80s movies.