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The first complaint I have to say is that the book doesn't age very well. There are words and ideas that are very outdated. This mostly applies to what's considered "cool" and even more with what's considered acceptable. The reader is supposed to sympathize with Jeremy (and to a lesser extent, Michael). I had a hard time doing so. Both of these boys (and all of the boys in the novel, in complete honesty) are such insufferable douchebags, I don't feel bad about them not having friends. They are all incredibly misogynistic, as pointed out by many other reviewers. Michael even has a specific interest in Asian girls, which was off-putting. The ladies in the novel are reduced to nothing more than walking sex dolls. The only girl given a hint of personality is Christine, who clearly doesn't like Jeremy and explains to him that she'd like to stay friends with him. But Jeremy isn't satisfied with that, no no, because he's a cool man and goes out of his way to make unwanted advances toward Christine, even making her cry in front of 300 people, (but it's okay because the SQUIP told him to! More on that later). Along with the misogyny, there's subtle homophobia mixed in, too. Basically, what it comes down to is the fact that this book was published in 2004. This stuff was a lot more accepted in literature over 10 years ago than it is now. It's disgusting, yes, but this is how teenage boys acted, and some still do act this way. Don't even get me started on what is considered cool in this book. It's basically all of the aforementioned misogyny and homophobia, but with Eminem thrown in a little bit. This book ages like a bottle of fine milk. Bus numbers: (Tottenham Court Road Station) 8, 29, 55, 134, 176, 242, 390; (Museum St) 1, 19, 25, 38, 98Insightful and utterly authentic. . . . This is an important book."— The New York Times Book Review Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from Supergeek to superchic. Now an off-Broadway musical! Not included in the Original Two River Cast Recording, but included in the Original Broadway Cast Recording. End verdict: I think I (kind of) enjoyed this book because I love the musical. Had it not been for the musical, I probably would not have finished, let alone enjoyed, the book. This venue has additional Covid-19 safety measures in place to ensure the health and well-being of the staff, performers, and guests.

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The Other Palace’s contemporary, 312-seat main auditorium has hosted new productions, including Heathers the Musical in 2018, which won Best New Musical and Best Actress in a Musical at the WhatsOnStage Awards. The intimate 120-seat studio space downstairs is where artists and directors can thrash out new work and rehearse forthcoming productions, while elsewhere in the building are a well-reviewed bar and restaurant. Okay, this review isn't formal in any way, so bear with me. For those not aware, this book has a corresponding musical of the same name. Here's what I'm going to do: I'm doing a whole Musical vs. Book segment at the end of my review, so if you just want to know what I think about the book itself, just ignore the last part of my review. If you only care about my thoughts on how the musical differs from the book, feel free to skip to the end. That being said, here are my thoughts on the book. Ned Vizzini was the author of It's Kind of a Funny Story ("insightful and utterly authentic" -- New York Times Book Review), Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah.... His work has been honored by the American Library Association, BookSense, and the New York Public Library and h ... View With its easily relatable characters, clever twists and ebullient songs, it engages you from beginning to end. A go-to choice for high school drama clubs everywhere.” – NJArtsBe More Chill takes place in Metuchen, New Jersey. It is written in the first person, from the perspective of high school student Jeremiah “Jeremy” Heere. Jeremy attends the fictional Middle Borough High School and is considered a loser by many of his peers; the popular girls have no interest in him, and he is constantly bullied. Jeremy's best friend is the music-loving Michael Mell. They sit together at lunch and talk about Jeremy's attempts at wooing his longtime crush, Christine Caniglia. Jeremy is tired of being a loser and hopes to find a way to change this. His main goal in life is to get Christine to notice him, then date her. Jeremy plans to implement his plans as he and Christine both practice for their school play, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. His advances are slow-going at first. Michael tells Jeremy that he's vaguely heard of a pill that can improve someones life; he thinks it's called a "script" and he suspects his brother used one to get a high SAT score.

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Its also cuts out a lot of objectionable content (like references to drugs, pornography, and self harm) so the story is more suitable for younger audiences.So, yeah, this book is sexist crap. A nerdy, lustful teen boy swallows a mind-reading micro quantum computer to teach him to become a cool womanizer. This plot was old when Jerry Lewis swallowed a serum to become Buddy Love. It's Cyrano de Bergerac tossing his heart and wandering into John Hughes' Weird Science. It's weird for me to read this book because the main character, Jeremy, I really think is based on Ned. Jeremy says things about himself that I have heard Ned Vizzini talk about or seen him do. Of course, the book is a little bit sci-fi, so heaps of it are made up, but this book is a quite memoir-eque fictional novel in that it seems to be how Ned has worked out his high school dorkiness and confusion and angst about not getting with girls.

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BE MORE CHILL Chicago Announces Three Month Postponement". Broadway World. 2020-03-12 . Retrieved 2020-03-31. Clement, Olivia. " Be More Chill Sets Wheels in Motion for Move to Broadway". Forbes . Retrieved 2018-08-28.In the book, the Squip is developed by Sony. A device named VeriChip (a microcomputer implanted into the brain surgically) already exists, but it is impractical and the procedure to implant it "[involves] a needle large enough to dose an elephant". Although Squips surpass any previously existing CPUs, Sony planned to make it more easily accessible and compared it to an "ingestible Palm Pilot". It can also be written as SQUIP, Squip, or squip. I enjoyed the book but seeing Michael Mell as a straight white boy with an Asian Fetish was completely unexpected and different from the picture of him that I have from George Salazars Michael Mell. a b "Be More Chill (Original Cast Recording)". Ghostlight Records. Archived from the original on 2018-07-12 . Retrieved 2018-07-03. I saw the Broadway show and was curious about the book since people at the show were so in love with the book. It's a fun book, more for teenagers I think. It didn't grab me like the show did but I understand why people enjoyed it. I've very much been looking forward to this graphic novel adaptation of one of my favorite stories. It's a pretty straightforward retelling and I love that the art style embraces the wannabe-grunge of the 2004-era setting.