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heyjudy's review
3.0
Review is here: http://geekyreading.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-seth-baumgartners-love-manifesto.html
kricketa's review
3.0
after his girlfriend veronica dumps him in applebee's, teenage seth spends his summer making podcasts that explore his failed relationship. he also wonders why his father is stepping out on his mom and what to do about it.
seth's best friend dimitry has a younger sister, audrey, who has suddenly gone from awkward to hohhhht and finds seth's breakup very interesting. gosh, i sure didn't see that coming.
i enjoyed the podcast elements but i fear this will date the book quickly.
final verdict:
for me- good, but not great.
for teens of either gender- great.
seth's best friend dimitry has a younger sister, audrey, who has suddenly gone from awkward to hohhhht and finds seth's breakup very interesting. gosh, i sure didn't see that coming.
i enjoyed the podcast elements but i fear this will date the book quickly.
final verdict:
for me- good, but not great.
for teens of either gender- great.
samantha_christen's review
3.0
it wasnt the overall plot or story line that made the book good but the cahracters.
adunnells's review
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
krissyronan's review
3.0
Funny and relatable
Male protagonist
A little predictable but the character is funny, the story is engaging, and the music is a fun aspect
Male protagonist
A little predictable but the character is funny, the story is engaging, and the music is a fun aspect
grecialopez's review
3.0
I think this book was lacked some action in it. I sort of felt like it was all talk talk talk.
bigsmiles's review
5.0
Completely unfair of me to say that I picked it up because it was said to me that it was alike to John Green book's and that I liked it mainly for that reason, but you can do a lot worse than John Green and this book is on par.
rachelcully's review
5.0
great book!
I grabbed this book of the shelf only because i recognized it from my to reads list and if was the only one i could find. But as a began reading i really enjoyed myself.
Seth Baumgartner (if you have trouble with the last name like i did listen to Eric Luper's Harperteen Podcast) is ready for the summer of his life, happy family great friends (or friend) and a girlfriend he simply adores. but then nearly his whole summer plans change in one fatal day.
His girlfriend, Veronica, Dumps him.
Then he sees his dad with another woman. And so does Veronica.
And then because of all this crazy emotional sh** he is going thru he is late for work and get fired. from his 4th job.
Poor, poor Seth. this book is the journey he takes into discovering what is really going on in his life and along the way he vents to his new Podcast "The Love Manifesto" about it all.
the characters in this book are great, the plot although it has its fair share of cliches is a fresh idea, the idea being if you knew your father was cheating what would you do? its a tough question to answer but this book trys to give the answer to you straight, In this very real book that im sure you'll enjoy!
I grabbed this book of the shelf only because i recognized it from my to reads list and if was the only one i could find. But as a began reading i really enjoyed myself.
Seth Baumgartner (if you have trouble with the last name like i did listen to Eric Luper's Harperteen Podcast) is ready for the summer of his life, happy family great friends (or friend) and a girlfriend he simply adores. but then nearly his whole summer plans change in one fatal day.
His girlfriend, Veronica, Dumps him.
Then he sees his dad with another woman. And so does Veronica.
And then because of all this crazy emotional sh** he is going thru he is late for work and get fired. from his 4th job.
Poor, poor Seth. this book is the journey he takes into discovering what is really going on in his life and along the way he vents to his new Podcast "The Love Manifesto" about it all.
the characters in this book are great, the plot although it has its fair share of cliches is a fresh idea, the idea being if you knew your father was cheating what would you do? its a tough question to answer but this book trys to give the answer to you straight, In this very real book that im sure you'll enjoy!
cheermio's review
3.0
Enjoyed this a lot. Could have done with the best friend being maybe a little less immature and annoying, but I liked the pod-casting and other secondary characters.
booksavvy's review
3.0
Seth has just been dumped. Not only that, but while being dumped (at Applebees!), he spies his father having lunch with someone other than his mother. To top it all off, these two incidents cause him to be fired from his fourth, yes, fourth job this year. As his life seems to be collapsing around him, he copes by starts an anonymous podcast called “The Love Manifesto” to try to help find out "what love is, why love is, and why we're stupid enough to keep going back for more." As Seth and his best friend Dimitri run around town trying to discover the identity of his father’s lunch date, Seth has to figure out a way to keep his detective work (and his feelings) from his father while they practice for an important father-son golf tournament. To make matters even worse, his mother has been sharing Seth’s plight with the world via her radio show “Gayle’s Romantic Rendezvous” and slowly, the anonymity of his podcast is being compromised. Will Seth ever finish reading his list of “156 Reasons I Love my Ex” or will his podcasting days end as soon as they began?
Filled with pop culture references and a playlist of each song included in Seth’s podcast, this book will resonate with anyone who has ever been on the losing end of a break-up and wondered why we even bother with love in the first place. In the end, Seth learns that sometimes falling in love means doing things you never thought you’d do, including eating the worst chicken salad sandwich in the history of the world.
Filled with pop culture references and a playlist of each song included in Seth’s podcast, this book will resonate with anyone who has ever been on the losing end of a break-up and wondered why we even bother with love in the first place. In the end, Seth learns that sometimes falling in love means doing things you never thought you’d do, including eating the worst chicken salad sandwich in the history of the world.