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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

By Rachel Cohn, David Levithan

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| Hardcover | 9780375835315

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Book Description

It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who’s just walked in to his band’s show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York CContinue

5 Reviews

La difficoltà principale che ho trovato nel leggere questo libro sta nel fatto che avevo già visto il film e mi era piaciuto tantissimo. Il libro non è esattamente come la trasposizione cinematografica, se ne discosta per alcuni elementi, soprattutto relativi alla caratterizzazione dei due protagoni ... (continue)

La difficoltà principale che ho trovato nel leggere questo libro sta nel fatto che avevo già visto il film e mi era piaciuto tantissimo. Il libro non è esattamente come la trasposizione cinematografica, se ne discosta per alcuni elementi, soprattutto relativi alla caratterizzazione dei due protagonisti, e, a mio parere, non è altrettanto soddisfacente.
In più manca quell'atmosfera quasi fiabesca delle altre storie di Leviathan, che qui mi sembra si lasci inglobare un po' troppo dallo stile della coautrice.
Insomma, non un brutto libro, ma mi aspettavo molto di meglio.

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Ewan said on Feb 8, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

I did like the love story, especially from the moment Nick calls his own cell phone, but the cussing was too much... even for me, a (proud) foulmouthed person myself :P I tried to keep count of how many times the characters use the word "fucking" or "fuck" and got lost after 10 pages or less. The En ... (continue)

I did like the love story, especially from the moment Nick calls his own cell phone, but the cussing was too much... even for me, a (proud) foulmouthed person myself :P I tried to keep count of how many times the characters use the word "fucking" or "fuck" and got lost after 10 pages or less. The English language is not that rich in cussing world (if you can be rich in that) and unfortunately you can't use "fucking" so many times in a 182-pages book and walk away unscathed.
It's not realistic… and even if teenagers speak like that in the real world, I don't need to read it in a book. Everybody cusses; everybody uses the word "fuck" for time to time… The younger much more frequently than they should… but Nick, Norah and co. weren't talking as upper/middle-class teenagers going to study in Brown; they were rude, vulgar and so, so tasteless. Were they really from New Jersey? The way they talked reminded me of the TV serie The Wire. I don't think Nick and Norah were cops from Baltimore, weren't they? fO.o
I won't make any comment about the sexual content of the book. I'm a prude, I know, but normally I have no problem with sexually active teenagers, but the direction the scene in the Marriott Maquis' ice room took was a bit over-the-top for a YA book, I think (even if I liked it :P).
Anyway, even though it's a great love story, could have been written a bit more careful. There are a couple of good quotes about life, universe and everything... The music is supposed to be a big theme in this book, but I didn't know most of the references or understand the whole punk stuff, so it wasn't that interesting. What can I do? I'm a moron in music, sorry :P
BTW, I do like the movie, although the story is quite... ok, a lot different... and I don't remember the people cussing so much in the movie fO.o

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papalbina said on Sep 16, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

“I Wanna Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles

“I Wanna Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles
First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. N ... (continue)

“I Wanna Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles
First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can’t hide. Every single successful love song of the past fifty years can be traced back to ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding. Trust me. I’ve thought a lot about this.”

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Emily and her little Pink Notes said on Apr 13, 2010 | Add your feedback

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

An edgy story of love gone wrong and love gone right, told from two points of view.

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Readingrat said on Nov 7, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Really cool story, told from the opposing viewpoints of Nick and Norah, as they're accidental date takes them down a twisting road of discovery.

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Jaemi K said on Nov 13, 2006 | Add your feedback