I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
Totally irreverent and blessedly true to adolescence, I couldn’t put this book down. It helped that it is by a Chicagoan and set in the suburbs where I grew up, and it didn’t hurt that I could relate to Denis Cooverman more than I care to admit, this was a great book.

This is the story of two recent high school graduates—one whose life has been so dull that he has nothing but better things to look forward to and another who believes that with her graduation the best years of her life are behind her. This is a great cross-over book from YA to adult fiction that is more a coming of self book than a story of coming of age. It’s like a hybrid of Catcher in the Rye and Napoleon Dynamite with an amazing graduation soundtrack that every high school senior should have on his/her iPod.

Though I was at home alone while reading most of this book, I kept looking around for someone to share the laugh-out-loud funny parts. There were so many great parts like when Denis apologizes for 15,000 of male stupidity and Rich finally admitting he's gay than figuring out he's not only to give homosexuality one more try.

This book graduates with honors from my summer reading list.

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