Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (2005)

Hilarious! ( )

June 19, 2011

Super cute! Scott was AWESOME! And I'm just going to say ditto to the stuff I said down there vv because I feel the same way!! :)

December 15, 2008

I'd give it 4.5 if I could.... I'm still working on that.

It was REALLY REALLY CUTE! I REALLY like Scott! He was so cute and nerdy, but in a great way! Just the kind of guy I would have gone for in high school... Of course, it would have been a super-secret crush, and he would never have suspected in a million years. But whatever. The guy was actually a lot like me, except that I was a huge math nerd, not an English nerd. And BOY, are math nerds nerdier!

ANYWAY! Book was cute. I couldn't believe the lengths Scott was willing to go to in order to spend time with Julia, when he couldn't even TALK to her! And, okay, I lied. I was more like Julia, including dating a bad-boy in high school. Except for the being gorgeous thing. I had bad glasses, bad hair, and bad clothes in high school. It's actually painful to think about—like Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed. Okay, not that bad. :)

Wow. This is completely off topic. The book was very interesting. It's one thing to read a book where the protagonist is male when it's written by a WOMAN. But it's a complete other thing when the book is actually written by a MAN. So I got some very intriguing insights into the mind of a teenage boy, without it being gross. He was actually a very respectful teenage boy, which is something I'm not used to... :P His mom and dad were great. I loved the whole diary-for-a-fetus thing... :D

I loved the characters of Mouth and Lee. Gosh, Mouth would be my best friend, but I'd be scared to death of Lee (and secretly envious of her green hair). I loved Wesley, too. He was REALLY FUNNY... siphoning gas... holy freaking cow!

Anyway, overall very cute. And I think I'm going to bump it up to 5 stars, as I loved it. Oh, and there are some serious teen issues in the book that Scott handles the best way he knows how... Suicide, bullies, judging people... those kinds of things. It was really good. ( )

My favorite of the books I've read so far for the humor night in Library Materials for Young Adults. ( )

Scott Hudson has it all--as long as "all" includes bullies, a ton of homework, too many extra-curriculars, a crush on a girl who barely notices him, and a pregnant mom. So maybe he doesn't have it all (thanks to the seniors, he doesn't even have pocket change anymore), but he does still have his sense of humor. If that doesn't help him make it through his freshman year of high school, nothing will.

The book is an odd mix for me: so much of it rang false to me (did I go to an unusually nice high school, or do upperclassmen really not care about freshmen enough to be bullies? I don't remember ever being singled out personally, or seeing anyone else singled out, just because of my/their freshman status), and yet I really enjoyed the characters and cared what happened to them. And Scott is funny--more than once I found myself laughing at his jokes ("'They cut off my wrists,' Tom said offhandedly"), but that's probably more a reflection on my terrible sense of humor than the book's.... ( )

i liked the book, but i felt like it was alittle below my reading level and that the ending was predictable. ( )