I LOVED THIS BOOK. Loved. It. I was just so excited throughout it. I read it in TWO hours. Two. I was so excited, I really really really wanted to know who the heck was Blue. I laughed out loud throughout the whole book. AND I JUST FIGURED OUT THAT THE MOVIE LOVE, SIMON IS BASED ON THIS BOOK, AND I NEED TO WACTH. THE. MOVIE. NOW.
This book is about Simon. A gay kid who's still in the closet. He's been emailing back and forth with a guy, code-name Blue, absolutely falling heads over heels in love with him. He's smart, funny, absolutely grammatically correct, and incredibly cute – in Simon's head.
I really can't say anything else without spoiling, other than that I loved this book.
My mom has this trauma and apparently goal in life to make me skinny (Which I appreciate. Sometimes) and that usually involves making me jog on the treadmill. I get absolutely bored after two minutes, even when watching a move or a tv series; but I figured out that books are my way to go. They make me pass time without counting the minutes, and suck me in so that I kind of forget I'm miserably jogging. When jogging to this book, I lost track of time and jogged twice as long than I normally would've.
I laughed out loud so many times, that my mom came in to check on me and see if I was okay. I absolutely was. Simon is hilarious, his friends are hilarious. God, I hope the movie doesn't ruin the book. Actually, nothing could ruin this book because it is so dang good, but still.
I got jitters, became restless, absolutely entranced in the story. I got excited whenever Simon got close to guessing who Blue was – which is absolutely not the guy you'd expect. I swear this book got my heart rate up; it's slow in the way that every detail is discussed so that we can envision what is happening and so that we can have a glimpse at the characters but still have room for our imaginations to run wild, but it is also moves at a fast-pace, or maybe that was just me.
READ THIS BOOK. ALWAYS READ THE BOOK BEFORE WATCHING THE MOVIE. THIS BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED AND THRUST UPON ANY OF YOU TO READ IT. READ IT. READ IT. READ IT.
I LOVE YOU ALL. I LOVE YOU ALL. I LOVE YOU ALL.
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Post Update: I watched the movie. It sucks.
I mean, I know that if I hadn't read the book, I probably would've liked it, kind of. But the characters were all wrong.
Simon was missing all of his Simon-ness. He was this shy kid in the movie, when he actually had to be a theatre kid – completely not shy, hilarious, and just more. The actor fit him well, with how I was picturing him, but his personality in the movie was absolutely not fitting.
Nora was not supposed to be such a wuss, and a cook. She was supposed to be this silent cool kid, who reads books and plays the guitar.
Alice wasn't even in the picture. There wasn't an older sister, Simon wasn't bub and Nora wasn't boop.
Leah was okay, but she was in love with the wrong kid. In the book it's with Nick, not with Simon. But she was supposed to be this super bad-ass kid, who plays the drums and is just effortlessly cool.
Nic was supposed to be taller, cooler, and play the guitar. He was supposed to be the nerdy jock, not just the jock.
Abby was supposed to be a dancer, nicer, and just more Abby-like. I feel like the character in the movie doesn't do her justice.
Bram completely disappointed me. Cal was not supposed to be this irrelevant cute kid in the background. Martin was supposed to be super tall, gangly, clumsy, dumb but in a funny way, not absolutely pathetic.
The parents were supposed to joke more, be more nosy. BIEBER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A RETRIEVER, not whatever breed the dog in the movie was.
God, I think I set such high expectations – again – that I was doomed to be disappointed. But really, even if I hadn't set my expectations so high, I still would've been disappointed. There are so so many plot differences – and I know that a whole book can't be portrayed in the hour and a half that is a movie, but really, they could've made it more similar. Agh, the characters, I think that is what disappointed me the most, and I understand that everybody has different people for the characters in their mind, and usually my disappointment is not that bad, but I loved this book, and the characters absolutely disappointed me.
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