I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
Blurb for the back cover:
“It’s amusing to see just how much Denis will put up with in an attempt to get the girl who turns out to be, slightly crazy.”
In I Love You, Beth Cooper, Beth Cooper is the perfect girl in Denis Cooverman’s mind which is why, while giving the valedictorian speech for his graduating high school class, he declares his love for her in front of everybody. This bold decision is the catalysis that sets of a chain of events that leads Denis and his would-be-gay-if-only-he-could-figure-out-what-everybody-else-already-knew best friend, Richard Munsch, on a night out that just progressively gets worse and worse for them. Beth Cooper enters the picture by using Denis as an excuse to make her army, and in dire need of anger management, boyfriend jealous. As things progress Beth and her two female companions lead the two boys on a wacky adventure through their hometown of Buffalo Grove, breaking numerous laws in the process as well as putting Denis in as many awkward situations.
The whole time Denis spends with Beth, his dream girl, he is shocked to discover just how little he knew about her after sitting behind her for four years. He learns that she may not be all that he thought she was and that she may be something much worse. This is the aspect of the book that really helped draw me in, that Beth Cooper is not as good as girl as we expect her to be. She keeps getting progressively worse as the book goes on to the point where I started wonder how could Denis be so blind and why didn’t he just get up and leave her. He is often put in a situation where he is physically harmed or in a situation that is just so awkward that he has no idea how to get out of it. But it’s a crush that Denis has had for four years. Sometimes with a love so blind and strong, it is hard to admit defeat and give up on it. It’s amusing to see just how much Denis will put up with in an attempt to get the girl who turns out to be, slightly crazy.
This book reminded me of high school and how stupid we all were back then which is one of the reasons I found it charming in a way. For the most part I think it is safe to say that most of us had one of those crushes on that one person who probably didn’t give you much attention.
I wasn’t expecting this to be one of those coming-of-age stories that I tend to frown upon (more on that late, maybe). But one night can change a lot of things and all the characters come out grown, or at the very least different, in the end.
This book is one of the books that I found hard to put down and regretted waiting so long to read it. I bought it back when it first came out because the author Larry Doyle is a former writer for The Simpsons. It has since been released in paperback and made in to a movie.
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:13 am
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