By: Ned Vizzini
Adapted by: David Levithan
Art by: Nick Bertozzi
Discarded hardcover 139 pages
Published: 2021
Genre: YA coming of age, SciFi (a bit)
Apparently, this story was written as a novel by Vizzini in 2004. Then it was made into a musical. Now Levithan and Bertozzi have turned it into a graphic novel.
"Jeremy is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the 'squip.' A pill-size supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life."
The squip and technology "advancements" in general are what made me call this SciFi. It isn't so far-fetched with AI and other recent techno to think that someday we can have something like a "squip." The results, of course, are awful. (But then, any time humans try to improve upon God's creation . . . )
It was a well-written and drawn book. I had not heard of this musical or novel before. I will donate this book to a high school teacher. I think it would appeal to some readers quite a bit.
I liked Christine and Jeremy's friend (whose name I can't find right now). This was an interesting read. It would make for a good book club discussion with teens.
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