Authors: Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Publisher: Knopf
Genre: Young Adult
Amazon Rating: 4 1/2 out of 5 stars
Ennui's Rating: 5 stars
What the books about: After seeing his ex-girlfriend at his show, Nick asks a random girl if she would be his 5-minute girlfriend, not knowing this stranger and him are connect through his ex to begin with. And what starts a spur of the moment thing ends up being a heart-wrenching, emotion filled roller coaster of one crazy night between two people who have seemingly stopped believing in the power of love.
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Written in two points of view - would you have it any other way - Rachel Cohn takes on the cynical, rather "frigid" Norah, while her counterpart, David Levithan, voices the Nick chapters. And while I hate to admit it, the movie was my motivation to read the novel, the book is far from disappointing and didn't ruin the movie for me (as so many have in the past). In other words, if you want the hardcore experience that movie, lacked pick up the book.
Anyway, down to my "review" of the book. As previously mentioned, the two authors take turns breathing life into the male & female combo. Nick is introduced first as the straight bass player for a drummerless, queercore punk band, The Fuck Offs, who spots his ex-girlfriend, Tris, in the crowd with another guy. Not wanting to show he hasn't moved on, he asks a random stranger, Norah, if she wouldn't mind being his 5-minute girlfriend.
Switch to: Norah's POV. Rachel Cohn introduces her straight-edge, unorthodox Jewish, private school girl, Norah, who is at first repulsed with the idea of being Nick's 5-minute girlfriend, but nevertheless decides to kiss NoMo anyway.
Both Cohn and Levithan have a knack for writing jokes when most appropriate, how to turn a serious moment into something profound, and, most of all and most importantly, know their shit when it comes to music. This isn't your Perks of Being a Wallflower - this is something far better.
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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to? When the club closes or when everyone leaves? Normally, I keep these kinds of questions to myself. But this time I ask Norah. (P. 170)Thoughts: Thought provoking is possibly the last thing Young Adult literature brings to mind, at least with me. Most of it is just garbage. Enter Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, which reads more like literary fiction that something my 14-year-old niece should be reading. However, even thought word fuck is used like streamers to decorate the book, the content is still very much high school. If this is the future of YA, then I want in on it.
Written in two points of view - would you have it any other way - Rachel Cohn takes on the cynical, rather "frigid" Norah, while her counterpart, David Levithan, voices the Nick chapters. And while I hate to admit it, the movie was my motivation to read the novel, the book is far from disappointing and didn't ruin the movie for me (as so many have in the past). In other words, if you want the hardcore experience that movie, lacked pick up the book.
Anyway, down to my "review" of the book. As previously mentioned, the two authors take turns breathing life into the male & female combo. Nick is introduced first as the straight bass player for a drummerless, queercore punk band, The Fuck Offs, who spots his ex-girlfriend, Tris, in the crowd with another guy. Not wanting to show he hasn't moved on, he asks a random stranger, Norah, if she wouldn't mind being his 5-minute girlfriend.
Switch to: Norah's POV. Rachel Cohn introduces her straight-edge, unorthodox Jewish, private school girl, Norah, who is at first repulsed with the idea of being Nick's 5-minute girlfriend, but nevertheless decides to kiss NoMo anyway.
Both Cohn and Levithan have a knack for writing jokes when most appropriate, how to turn a serious moment into something profound, and, most of all and most importantly, know their shit when it comes to music. This isn't your Perks of Being a Wallflower - this is something far better.
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