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Liked It3 of 3 members found this review helpful “I Love You Beth Cooper is basically a 1980's Brat Pack movie in written form. It takes place on high-school graduation night with a meld of stereo-types who don't normally meld. |
Didn’t Like It2 of 2 members found this review helpful “I Love You... definitely had some funny moments, but after awhile the plot felt played out, the wittiness was a bit overdone, and the crassness was getting out of hand. It was just too much. Brainy dorky guy gets beat up (repeatedly) on grad night, and gets to run around town with a hot chick he...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“ I Love You, Beth Cooper By: Larry Doyle
Ms Collins' Class wrote this review Monday, October 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
***** (5 stars)
I Love You, Beth Cooper is an overall good book. I really enjoyed reading it and I recommend it to female high school students. This novel is about an average, nerdy high schooler, Denis Coverman, that decides to change up his valedictorian speech to confess his love to Beth Cooper, who just so happens to not even be aware of his existence.
The book takes place at the Buffalo Grove High School graduation and then, surprisingly enough, Denis’s house party. Let me remind you that Beth Cooper is the head cheerleader with a big tough army boyfriend, while Denis is the captain of the debate team that had just made her boyfriend angry.
I really liked the way the author explain deeply how Denis was feeling and the attitude of Beth, her best friends, and Denis’s best friend. The author doesn’t go into detail with the setting and other detail but I still enjoyed the book. It was worth reading 100%. The book had me laughing at many different parts. If you enjoy a good, funny, easy read, I suggest this book.
Jaymee Holt
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“Fun and very funny. Sort of a John Hughes film in print. Not a real weighty novel, but well-done. ”
heminator wrote this review Friday, September 18 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“seems good so far”
Aleksandra Z wrote this review Sunday, September 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The story was kind of funny; but not near as humorous as I had been led to believe. The story has been told a thousand times over. However, despite its faults, it still held my interest throughout.”
MAJST5 wrote this review Tuesday, August 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I really enjoyed this book. It was extremely funny and highly entertaining. Larry Doyle's writing style is fun and funny. I am quite excited to see the movie adaption of this book because from the previews, it looks like it will be very similar to the book and I am excited for that.”
Cassie H wrote this review Monday, August 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I was a little bored with it. All Dennis does is wait to get beaten up. :|”
Mariel wrote this review Wednesday, July 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Hilarious”
Fowler S. wrote this review Thursday, July 2 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I LOVE this book. As you read it you can see the High School movie unfolding - my only hope is that the actual movie is as awesome as the book. The pictures at the start of each chapter are so funny. The premise is SO good.”
Brian S wrote this review Tuesday, June 30 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I have been wanting to read this for so long... looks so cute. And now I hear there is a movie being made based on the book.”
Amy B wrote this review Wednesday, June 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“During his speech as high school valedictorian, Denis Coverman strays from his agreed upon script, taking a moment to get some things off his chest and call out certain members of the student body who have made his life miserable for the past four years. And he also takes a moment to let his secret crush, Beth Cooper, popular cheerleader, know that he loves her.
Michael H wrote this review Wednesday, June 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
That's a hell of a hook and author Larry Doyle really makes work. The initial portions of the novel are laugh out loud funny, including the vengeful janitor locking all the doors to the auditorium so everyone will have to suffer from the heat and the principal's thoughts on the duties he'll have to perform to make up for. The novel even goes well as Denis encounters Beth after the speech and invites her to his after-graduation party---which consists of himself and his best friend who may or may not be gay.
The novel hums along at a good pace for the first 50 or so pages, making some wry observations, introducing some funny moments and having a lot of fun with the premise. But it's once Beth and her crew show up at Denis's house for the party that things begin to derail a bit and the book descends into your normal "greatest night of a young teenage life" type of story. Beth has a jealous boyfriend who wants to beat the tar out of Denis, the gang goes on a crosstown epic adventure and there's the requisite romantic tension between the two leads. Doyle works hard in the last three quarters of the novel to sustain what he had when the novel started, but the book really kind of peters out toward the end, becoming little more than a lot of cliches that we've seen in other teen angst movies.
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