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The Spectacular Now Pasta blanda – 9 julio 2013
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SUTTER KEELY. HE’S the guy you want at your party. He’ll get everyone dancing. He’ ll get everyone in your parents’ pool. Okay, so he’s not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men’s shirts for a living. But there are plenty of ladies in town, and with the help of Dean Martin and Seagram’s V.O., life’s pretty fabuloso, actually.
Until the morning he wakes up on a random front lawn, and he meets Aimee. Aimee’s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help, and it’s up to the Sutterman to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee’s not like other girls, and before long he’s in way over his head. For the first time in his life, he has the power to make a difference in someone else’s life—or ruin it forever.
Now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about films at Sundance, starring Shailene Woodley (star of The Fault in our Stars and Divergent) and Miles Teller (star of Whiplash).
- Número de páginas304 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- EditorialEmber
- Fecha de publicación9 julio 2013
- Edad de lecturaA partir de 14 años
- Dimensiones13.97 x 1.6 x 20.85 cm
- ISBN-100385754302
- ISBN-13978-0385754309
- Medida LexileHL790L
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"[A] smart, superbly written novel."
Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February 2009:
"A sobering look at the rationalizations of a teenage alcoholic."
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So, it's a little before ten a.m. and I'm just starting to get a good buzz going. Theoretically, I should be in Algebra II, but in reality I'm cruising over to my beautiful fat girlfriend Cassidy's house. She ditched school to get her hair cut and needs a ride because her parents confiscated her car keys. Which I guess is a little ironic considering that they're punishing her for ditching school with me last week.
Anyway, I have this sweet February morning stretching out in front of me, and I'm like, Who needs algebra? So what if I'm supposed to be trying to boost the old grades up before I graduate in May? I'm not one of these kids who's had their college plans set in stone since they were about five. I don't even know when the application deadlines are. Besides, it's not like my education is some kind of priority with my parents. They quit keeping track of my future when they divorced, and that was back in the Precambrian Era. The way I figure it, the community college will always take me. And who says I need college anyway? What's the point?
Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight--warm but not too brash. It's not like winter at all. Neither was January or December for that matter. It's amazing--we couldn't have had more than one cold week all winter. Listen, global warming's no lie. Take last summer. You want to talk about getting a beating from the heat. Last summer was a hardcore pugilist. I mean, burn-you-down-to-the-roots-of-your-hair hot. It's like Cassidy says--global warming's not for lightweights.
But with this February sun, see, the light's absolutely pure and makes the colors of the sky and the tree limbs and the bricks on these suburban houses so clean that just looking at them is like inhaling purified air. The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.
I prefer drinking my whisky mixed, so I pull into a convenience store for a big 7UP, and there's this kid standing out front by the pay phone. A very real-looking kid, probably only about six years old--just wearing a hoodie and jeans, his hair sticking out every which way. Not one of these styling little kids you see in their brand-name outfits and their TV show haircuts, like they're some kind of miniature cock daddy. Of course, they wouldn't know what to do with a girl if she came in a box with the instructions on the lid like Operation or Monopoly, but they have the act down.
Right away, I take to this kid, so I say, "Hey, dude, aren't you supposed to be in school or something?" and he's like, "Can I borrow a dollar?"
I go, "What do you need with a dollar, little man?"
And he's, "I'm going to buy a candy bar for breakfast."
Now that gets my attention. A candy bar for breakfast? My heart goes out to this kid. I offer to buy him a breakfast burrito, and he's okay with that as long as he gets his candy bar too. When we come back out, I look around to size up what kind of traffic the kid's going to have to negotiate in his travels. We live just south of Oklahoma City--technically it's a whole different city, but with the urban sprawl you can't tell where one leaves off and the other begins--so we have a lot of traffic zipping around here.
"Look," I tell him as he drips egg down the front of himself. "This is a pretty busy intersection. How about I give you a ride to wherever you're going so some big rig doesn't barrel down and flatten you like a squirrel."
He looks me over, sizing me up just like a squirrel might actually do right before deciding to scamper off into his lair. But I'm a trustworthy-looking guy. I have no style either--just a pair of reasonably old jeans, beat-up sneakers, and a green long-sleeve T-shirt that says Ole! on the front. My brown hair's too short to need much combing, and I have a little gap between my two front teeth, which gives me a friendly, good-hearted look, or so I'm told. The point is I'm a long way from scary.
So the kid takes a chance and hops into the passenger side of my Mitsubishi Lancer. I've had it for about a year--it's silver with a black interior, not new or anything but pretty awesome in a basic kind of way.
"My name's Sutter Keely," I say. "What's yours?"
"Walter," he says around a mouthful of burrito.
Walter. That's good. I've never known a little kid named Walter. It seems like an old man's name, but I guess you have to start somewhere.
"Now, Walter," I say, "the first thing I want you to know is you shouldn't really take rides from strangers."
"I know," he says. "Mrs. Peckinpaugh taught us all about that at Stranger Danger."
"That's good," I say. "You should keep that in mind in the future."
And he goes, "Yeah, but how do you know who's a stranger?"
That cracks me up. How do you know who's a stranger? That's a kid for you. He can't comprehend that people might be dangerous just because you haven't met them yet. He's probably got all sorts of sinister ideas about what a stranger is--a black, slouchy hat and raincoat, a scar on the cheek, long fingernails, shark teeth. But think about it--when you're six years old, you haven't met all that many people. It would be pretty mind-_boggling to go around suspicious of ninety-nine percent of the populace.
I start to explain the stranger thing to him, but his attention span isn't all that long and he gets sidetracked watching me pour whisky into my big 7UP.
"What's that?" he asks.
I tell him it's Seagram's V.O., so then he wants to know why I'm pouring it in my drink.
I look at him and he has this authentic interest in his big, round eyes. He really wants to know. What am I going to do, lie to him?
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- Editorial : Ember; Edición 0 (9 julio 2013)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Pasta blanda : 304 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 0385754302
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385754309
- Edad de lectura : A partir de 14 años
- Dimensiones : 13.97 x 1.6 x 20.85 cm
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Sutter Keeley is our admirable narrator who values kindness over honesty. The life of a party, he loves to live in the moment.
I could connect with his fear of the approaching tomorrow. Because, for him, a future or a life after high school (in India, that would be life after graduation) is filled with responsibilities and being an adult and hence, having no carefree life. That fear of unknown is real for so many of us.
Then there was Amiee. All girls in the book are likable and real and not bitchy or dramatic or just plain mean, which was such a refreshing thing to read. Amiee is relatable too, in the sense that most girls are naive at some point in their life, as I was, before an experience matures them, introduces them to reality and forces them to change. I guess this stands true even for boys. So it was good to read that.
The ending might disappoint a lot of people, but I think it ended in the most realistic way possible. Not all books have to end with the character changing drastically for the better or worse. Sometimes, like real life, you are just stuck, indecisive and don't know where you're headed (in the book, it's kind of literal). Of course I want to know what happena to Sutter and Amiee and I want to know how they do in college. I would be the first one to order book 2, if that ever happens. But if not, I'll still love this book.
Overall, i think this book deserves all the love that it gets and more.
Worth it.
I have seen the film first and after I wanted to read the story which did not disappointed me. It was really pleasant to read this realistic story.
Raramente mi capita di apprezzare di più la versione cinematografica rispetto alla versione cartacea che ha ispirato il film, tuttavia questa è stata una di quelle volte.
Questo libro complessivamente è un buon YA, ma il finale mi ha in parte delusa.
Attenzione: la seguente recensione contiene spoilers!
Il protagonista del libro è Sutter, un ragazzo di 17 anni che frequenta l'ultimo anno di liceo e non ha mai avuto intenzione di riuscire a completare qualcosa nella vita, non ha desiderio di studiare, né di lavorare, sacrificandosi per il futuro, ma preferisce vivere nel presente, godere del momento e della felicità che si può provare solo nella gioventù e negli anni dell'adolescenza (the spectacular now, appunto).
Sutter ha molto a cuore le condizioni più tristi e disagiate che le persone intorno a lui vivono e cerca sempre di fare qualcosa di bello per queste persone, qualcosa che possa migliorare la loro condizione e renderli felici.
Inizia a frequentare la coetanea Aimee, una ragazza anonima e impopolare, solitaria e studiosa. Con il tempo, la sua storia con Aimee diventa seria e Sutter alla fine sceglie di allontanarla, perché dentro di sé sa che lui non cambierà mai, che resterà sempre bloccato nella sua perenne ricerca della felicità momentanea, mentre Aimee come tutte le altre persone della loro età vuole di più dal futuro, è in cerca del riscatto, anche perché proviene da una famiglia caotica e allo sbando che ha poca fiducia in lei e nelle sue capacità.
Sutter ha anche un problema di alcolismo, che finisce per condizionare non solo le sue relazioni interpersonali, ma anche la sua salute; tuttavia non lo accetta e sceglie di non cambiare, nonostante ne abbia l'opportunità. Inoltre, i genitori di Sutter sono poco presenti nella sua vita, sono figure quasi di passaggio, che non si rendono conto della condizione del figlio.
La storia di Sutter è molto realistica ed è ben scritta: il punto di vista narrativo è quello del protagonista che vive ogni situazione con un misto di cinismo e ironia, che rende evidente la sua tristezza e la sua sofferenza. Sutter è convinto che gli altri possono andare avanti anche senza di lui e non si rende conto che anche i suoi amici, sua sorella ed Aimee tengono a lui, si preoccupano per lui e vorrebbero aiutarlo.
Quello che non mi è piaciuto di questo libro è il finale: l'ultimo capitolo è ricco di tutto il pessimismo del protagonista nei confronti della vita e del futuro.
Sutter è un modello negativo per gli adolescenti e da una parte comprendo il motivo per cui l'autore ha scelto di abbandonare il personaggio al suo nichilismo, affinché ogni ragazzo o ragazza che legga questo libro empatizzi con Sutter per poi rendersi conto di non voler essere come lui e di disprezzarlo, perché bisogna fare delle scelte nella vita e accettare di cambiare anche quando il cambiamento ci spaventa.
D'altra parte credo che pure con un finale alternativo più positivo si sarebbe potuto ottenere lo stesso effetto: se Sutter avesse scelto di voler cambiare e abbandonare il proprio comportamento autodistruttivo (evento che si verifica nella versione cinematografica della storia), il lettore lo avrebbe ammirato e avrebbe compreso una lezione importante: non importa quanto grave è la situazione in cui siamo, è sempre possibile scegliere di rialzarsi e cambiare. Ecco, avrei preferito che il libro si fosse concluso con un messaggio di speranza da tramandare ai lettori, poiché si tratta di uno YA e il target sono gli adolescenti che iniziano ad affacciarsi ai problemi della vita, dai più banali ai più seri.
Pertanto, mi sento di consigliare questo libro più ai lettori adulti che ai ragazzi, poiché leggere una storia simile in un momento delicato della vita come quello dell'adolescenza potrebbe non essere la scelta ideale per tutti.