I Love You Beth Cooper

“Gleefully clever and adroitly sweet.” (USA Today )“A smart, incredibly funny pastiche…Doyle’s writing is fast-paced and full of self-aware nods to the audience.” (Houston Press - Blogs )“…hilarious coming-of-age novel…” (Rocky Mountain News )“...a demonstration of the power of good comic writing…” (Weekly Standard )One of the “best comedy books of the summer.” (Time Out Chicago )“It’s all outlandish fun, but what do you expect from a former Simpsons writer?” (Daily Candy Los Angeles )“...darn funny.” (Salt Lake City Tribune )“...a one-night-only joyride through Larry Doyle’s brilliant sense of humor.” (David Schickler, author of SWEET AND VICIOUS and KISSING IN MANHATTAN )“…hilarious high school romp... never ceases to charm...unlike, say, PE.” (E! Online - Cool Stuff )“...a romp, a goof, a wedgie to the coming-of-age novel... the book is blessed release.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer )“…this book is laugh-out-loud funny…” (John Searles, NBC Weekend Today Show )“...humorously addresses the agony and ecstasy of adolescence. It’s high-school hell…Doyle has the scene down cold.” (Kirkus Reviews )“Hip and hysterical...a fun, teen coming-of-age story.” (Buffalo News )“Hilarious, suspenseful, and a little good-kind-of-sad, the novel is a mashup of John Hughes movies. (Blueprint Magazine )“...an instant classic, right up there with great end-of-school landmarks like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused.” (Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of LITTLE CHILDREN )“Larry Doyle has created a perfect literary hot fudge sundae: sweet, naughty, delicious, irresistible.” (Kurt Andersen )“…the book is great... dark, absurdist, insanely funny send-up of a John Hughes movie…Buy it.” (New York magazine )“If this book doesn’t make you laugh out loud, something is wrong with you.” (Dave Barry )“Larry Doyle…gives a 21st-century gloss to this familiar tale… wickedly funny…” (New York Times Book Review )“Doyle [injects] his own brand of insightful, engaging humor and convincingly recreates the high school experience...” (New York Press )“…outrageously funny novel… ” (Booklist )“...hilarious...” (Esquire )“In the flagrantly funny I Love You, Beth Cooper, Larry Doyle gives the coming-of-age novel a swirly.” (Vanity Fair )“…this side-splitting novel of adolescence is a classic teen movie waiting to be made.” (Entertainment Weekly - The Must List )“I have never laughed as consistently hard with (or at) anything as I did with this book…” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette )“I Love You, Beth Cooper…made B&N fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley ‘laugh-snort through my nose.’” (USA Today )“Doyle’s hilarious debut novel [moves] at a clip but never forgets that humor needs heart, too.” Grade: A (Entertainment Weekly )“Fresh, sweet, seriously funny.” (Newsweek )“This funny, hopeful novel is like a John Hughes movie in book form.” (Indianapolis Star )