Be More Chill (Paperback)

from mjspear

Heartbreaking and funny, sensitive and crude, BMC is more good than bad but, to this reader, flawed by over-the-top adult content. Jeremy Heere is a loser. Worse, he is a victim of quiet, stealth bullying... his Humiliation Sheet --his daily tally of the various insults and injuries he endures-- ...

from Shijuro

Excellent story about a high school loser who uses a black market "drug" (cpu in a pill) to become cool, and what the ramifications are to slavishly going to a device for advice and validation. Incredibly, this was written several years before the iPhone was released and at the very start of soci...

from mdtwilighter

I love Ned Vizzini's writing! "It's Kind of a Funny Story" is among my all time favorites, and although this wasn't as good, it was still excellent. It tells the story of a kid who gets a squib, a little voice in his head that tells him what to do to be cool. As well as being hilarious, it really...

from amberdeshotel

. I really liked the pace of this book. However, I have to say that I think this book should only be read by much older teens. The book sometimes frightened me, because it was basically written straight from the ideas and thoughts of a young teenage boy. Some of the vivid and sexual experiences w...

from librarybrandy

Not nearly as good as Vizzini's other books. He still writes the Teen Boy voice amazingly well, but the story itself--about a gawky high-school boy who gets an implant that will teach him how to be cooler--reads like a flimsy knock-off of Feed. Like his other novels, Vizzini's protagonist is a th...