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A review by kaikai1618
Noah Can't Even by Simon James Green
3.7 stars? How was this kinda bad that it was then really good? This book was enjoyable for me. It actually made me laugh, snorting at the ridiculousness of some stuff in this book.
It's so weird because sometimes Noah was so dumb to the point where at multiple times I just dropped my kindle because it was so stupid.
But also other times the idiotic stuff that he said is what made me laugh! I was at a sleepover reading this, and it was amusing and funny so I was reading until 5am. Time flew by and I was snorting involuntary in the silence. It's like oh well this doesn't seem that great, but it still worked and not many books make me laugh so??? I have no idea what to think because maybe what I would have changed is the stuff that I think was a little too far in how much a human can mess up with what they say, but humans are weird this could totally be happening somewhere.
But if you don't find it enjoyable that something is kinda dumb or far fetched this book may not be for you. Because it made me laugh and it was interesting and charming somehow so I stayed, but I can see why people would really not like this book.
I mean it gets to the point where I've reached my embarrassment empathy capacity because he gets himself into these situations where you just go AGHHHHH and get this cringing feeling because it's just so embarrassing.
I'm not sure if this book was overdoing it or not.
I feel like it's the kind of thing where it's so bad that it's good. Because the situations were major face palms with how Noah handled everything. It was so frustrating but then it was just so hilarious while being horrible.
But this book has been a real fun book to read and has probably been one of the books that made me laugh the most. The cringy moments were very purposeful so I STILL DONT KNOW.
Wait I have to mention the grandma. The grandma is one of my favorite characters. She was hilarious just the way she spoke and used teen language was so amazing.
I mean I actually like this book more than most of Winger. Everyone loves Winger and it's so weird because I didn't enjoy the narrative as much as I wanted to. It was still a good book but sometimes the vulgar language just got in the way and wasn't enjoyable for me. This author used a lot of cussing and what would be considered vulgar language but in this book it was pulled off so well. It added to the humor in the story and I think it was also the innocence of Noah who knew what this stuff was, but was had no experience with it. It happens a lot but was just still so enjoyable.
(SPOILER COMMENT-- so here's the thing though. Noah is smart. He's geeky and VERY sociallY awkward but even though he does really dumb stuff all the time, his dad was asking for all this stuff, and Noah knew that his dad was doing stuff just like him when he lies. In some books the son or daughter would think nothing is wrong and that their parent is finally home when they are so obviously being scammed. Noah knew and didn't completely fall for it. Not very smart...I don't know about that because even if he has good grades he still hid his das in the shed, was an idiotic asshole when it came to Harry( though understandably), and thought Josh Lewis was a good friend when he just WASN'T and we all knew that.
(STILL SPOILER)
Things I would have changed but I'm sill not sure if this would have made me laugh less:
-Certain things not being so over the top, but still ridiculous cause that's part of the book's charm.
-More Harry because he was amazing and we didn't get to see too much of him. If we have a crazy narrator, we need the more normal and stable characters to balance everything out. We have Noah's crazy thoughts and when Harry is around at least we have someone normal and the situation is more mellow before it blows up in Noah's face again from his drama.
- the end was good for this book, but the way that Noah had suddenly come to terms with liking Harry--okay that's fine--but when he said he loved him....I'm not so sure about that.)
END OF SPOILER
So from this review you should probably get. A very conflicting book that is charmingly ridiculous but light hearted and not for everyone but can capture your heart.
It's so weird because sometimes Noah was so dumb to the point where at multiple times I just dropped my kindle because it was so stupid.
But also other times the idiotic stuff that he said is what made me laugh! I was at a sleepover reading this, and it was amusing and funny so I was reading until 5am. Time flew by and I was snorting involuntary in the silence. It's like oh well this doesn't seem that great, but it still worked and not many books make me laugh so??? I have no idea what to think because maybe what I would have changed is the stuff that I think was a little too far in how much a human can mess up with what they say, but humans are weird this could totally be happening somewhere.
But if you don't find it enjoyable that something is kinda dumb or far fetched this book may not be for you. Because it made me laugh and it was interesting and charming somehow so I stayed, but I can see why people would really not like this book.
I mean it gets to the point where I've reached my embarrassment empathy capacity because he gets himself into these situations where you just go AGHHHHH and get this cringing feeling because it's just so embarrassing.
I'm not sure if this book was overdoing it or not.
I feel like it's the kind of thing where it's so bad that it's good. Because the situations were major face palms with how Noah handled everything. It was so frustrating but then it was just so hilarious while being horrible.
But this book has been a real fun book to read and has probably been one of the books that made me laugh the most. The cringy moments were very purposeful so I STILL DONT KNOW.
Wait I have to mention the grandma. The grandma is one of my favorite characters. She was hilarious just the way she spoke and used teen language was so amazing.
I mean I actually like this book more than most of Winger. Everyone loves Winger and it's so weird because I didn't enjoy the narrative as much as I wanted to. It was still a good book but sometimes the vulgar language just got in the way and wasn't enjoyable for me. This author used a lot of cussing and what would be considered vulgar language but in this book it was pulled off so well. It added to the humor in the story and I think it was also the innocence of Noah who knew what this stuff was, but was had no experience with it. It happens a lot but was just still so enjoyable.
(SPOILER COMMENT-- so here's the thing though. Noah is smart. He's geeky and VERY sociallY awkward but even though he does really dumb stuff all the time, his dad was asking for all this stuff, and Noah knew that his dad was doing stuff just like him when he lies. In some books the son or daughter would think nothing is wrong and that their parent is finally home when they are so obviously being scammed. Noah knew and didn't completely fall for it. Not very smart...I don't know about that because even if he has good grades he still hid his das in the shed, was an idiotic asshole when it came to Harry( though understandably), and thought Josh Lewis was a good friend when he just WASN'T and we all knew that.
(STILL SPOILER)
Things I would have changed but I'm sill not sure if this would have made me laugh less:
-Certain things not being so over the top, but still ridiculous cause that's part of the book's charm.
-More Harry because he was amazing and we didn't get to see too much of him. If we have a crazy narrator, we need the more normal and stable characters to balance everything out. We have Noah's crazy thoughts and when Harry is around at least we have someone normal and the situation is more mellow before it blows up in Noah's face again from his drama.
- the end was good for this book, but the way that Noah had suddenly come to terms with liking Harry--okay that's fine--but when he said he loved him....I'm not so sure about that.)
END OF SPOILER
So from this review you should probably get. A very conflicting book that is charmingly ridiculous but light hearted and not for everyone but can capture your heart.