The Spectacular Now
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Average rating3.4
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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
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 goforth 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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I wanted this book to be good. It wasn't. I didn't connect to Sutter or Aimee at all, I felt nothing for them. Tim Tharp created a strong narrative voice for sure, but he ignored any form of character progression in Sutter which annoyed me. I could never really figure him out. There were lots of things that went unexplained, like Sutter's drinking. It was a big part of the novel but it was never questioned nor discussed in depth. Granted, it's not the worst book I've read by a long shot but I just didn't feel like it went anywhere.
