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Friday, January 31, 2014

The Spectacular Now


By Tim Tharp
304 pages

Beware, SPOILERS!!! 
 
Sutter Keely is cool…and self-absorbed…and troubled…and this novel, told from his POV, is frustrating.   He alienates his friends as he spirals into a serious drinking problem, he makes a sweet, geeky girl fall in love with him and then runs from her, telling himself he’s a hero and did it for her sake.  Then the novel just ends.  

I found myself alternating between feeling sorry for Sutter and loathing him.  Is this what Tharp intended?   


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