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This weekend I read what is perhaps one of the most touching, and accurate book about teen years that I have ever read. Or at least teen years so far as I have seen. The book is called 'I Love You, Beth Cooper' by Larry Doyle. The basic story is fairly old, dweeby guy falls in love with drop dead gorgeous cheerleader, and she falls in love with him, but it has an extremely new twist. The boy, Denis Cooverman, tells her that he loves her in front of the entire school at their graduation. The expected humiliation follows and then she ends up at his house that night, hiding from her freaky army boyfriend. A tragic and amusing tale follows, complete with drugs, sex and cheesy graduation songs. Isn't that what all of us want to have our last night of high school be like? Now this book does not sound accurate, at least not for the majority of us, but I don't mean accurate in the plot line. I mean accurate in the feelings it portrays. Like all the nervous bodily functions that happen when you're around someone you like. And I don't mean, oh I'd go out with that person if they liked me like or I would like to see that person naked like. I mean oh my god I like this person so much if I they don't like me back I'm going to die and have my heart eaten out by crazy rabid polar bears. That is how Denis feels about Beth. Even though she turns out to be a crazy psychopath who exhibits ahem wanton behavior. There is that and other feelings such as your first time being with a significant other (whether or not you like them), your first awkward moment after doing something with that significant other, realizing that you or your best friend is gay, and having your insides completely pummeled out of your body. These are just a view of the joyous experiences that I believe we have to look forward too. But I Love You, Beth Cooper puts them forth in such a way as to make you want to laugh at yourself. Okay maybe not right now, but in a couple years or so. This makes it a must read for everyone. 

G'Night Second Quarter