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TITLE: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
AUTHOR: Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
PAGES: 208
Norah knows all about Nick. She knows that he is a good guy, possibly the best guy, and she knows this because Trish, Nick’s ex-girlfriend, has been talking about him for the past six months. Nick writes Trish love letters, makes her incredible mix tapes, devotes his entire 17-year-old heart to her…but Norah knows another thing as well: Trish doesn’t return the devotion. Now that she’s broken up with him, Nick spends most of his time moping and leaving her messages and wishing she would call him back, tell him she was just kidding. But Trish wasn’t kidding, and now here she is at the gig where his band is playing tonight, and all Nick can do is panic and ask the girl next to him if she could please be his girlfriend for just five minutes. The girl, of course, is Norah. The moment she agrees is the moment that changes everything; and, for one long, amazing, awesome, awful, unforgettable night in sleepless Manhattan, there’s nothing else playing but Nick & Norah’s infinite playlist.
This is one instance where I didn’t regret seeing the movie before reading the book. Of course, that probably wouldn’t have happened if I had even known this was a book when we rented the movie, since I have a pretty strict books-before-movies policy around here. I don’t really mind though, because reading the book afterwards made the story seem even more awesome. The movie (although Michael Cera & Kat Dennings are freaking adorable in it) is lukewarm at best when compared to how vivid and forceful the book is. It was one of those books where I alternately cried and laughed my face off; the characters are clear and bright as day, Nick and Norah are crisply rendered and terribly complex and beautifully simple and pretty much epitomize the best things about high school. And I say this as a person who didn’t particularly like high school, but who can respect the good moments and memories it can leave you with. Highly recommended, loved it to death, and I plan to buy it as soon as I am no longer in the depths of poverty…hahaha.
