I Love You, Beth Cooper - by Larry Doyle (Paperback)

About the Book

Instead of a typical graduation speech, Denis Cooverman stands up in front of his classmates and professes his love for the most popular girl in school. Complications ensue, and Denis comes of age overnight.

From the Back Cover

Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really important in his high school graduation speech. So, in front of his 512 classmates and their 3,000 relatives, he announced: "I love you, Beth Cooper."

It would have been such a sweet, romantic moment. Except that Beth, the head cheerleader, has only the vaguest idea who Denis is. And Denis, the captain of the debate team, is so far out of her league he is barely even the same species. And then there's Kevin, Beth's remarkably large boyfriend, who's in town on furlough from the United States Army. Complications ensue.

Review Quotes

"...humorously addresses the agony and ecstasy of adolescence. It's high-school hell...Doyle has the scene down cold." - Kirkus Reviews
"In the flagrantly funny I Love You, Beth Cooper, Larry Doyle gives the coming-of-age novel a swirly." - Vanity Fair
"...hilarious..." - Esquire
"...hilarious coming-of-age novel..." - Rocky Mountain News
"I have never laughed as consistently hard with (or at) anything as I did with this book..." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Larry Doyle...gives a 21st-century gloss to this familiar tale... wickedly funny..." - New York Times Book Review
"An instant classic, right up there with great end-of-school landmarks like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused. . . . a generous and tender-hearted portrait of a teenage wasteland that should be deeply familiar to anyone who made it though high school." - Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of LITTLE CHILDREN
"...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
"If this book doesn't make you laugh out loud, something is wrong with you." - Dave Barry
"...hilarious high school romp... never ceases to charm...unlike, say, PE." - E! Online - Cool Stuff
"...a demonstration of the power of good comic writing..." - Weekly Standard
"A smart, incredibly funny pastiche...Doyle's writing is fast-paced and full of self-aware nods to the audience." - Houston Press - Blogs
One of the "best comedy books of the summer." - Time Out Chicago
"...this side-splitting novel of adolescence is a classic teen movie waiting to be made." - Entertainment Weekly - The Must List
"...this book is laugh-out-loud funny..." - John Searles, NBC Weekend Today Show
"...a romp, a goof, a wedgie to the coming-of-age novel... the book is blessed release." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Fresh, sweet, seriously funny." - Newsweek
"This funny, hopeful novel is like a John Hughes movie in book form." - Indianapolis Star
"...darn funny." - Salt Lake City Tribune
"Gleefully clever and adroitly sweet." - USA Today
"It's all outlandish fun, but what do you expect from a former Simpsons writer?" - Daily Candy Los Angeles
"Doyle [injects] his own brand of insightful, engaging humor and convincingly recreates the high school experience..." - New York Press
"...the book is great... dark, absurdist, insanely funny send-up of a John Hughes movie...Buy it." - New York magazine
"The book is great. Those among us who will forever self-identify as recovering high-school outcasts . . . will delight in this dark, absurdist, insanely funny send-up of a John Hughes movie . . . Buy it." - New York magazine
"I Love You, Beth Cooper...made B&N fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley 'laugh-snort through my nose.'" - USA Today
"Hip and hysterical...a fun, teen coming-of-age story." - Buffalo News
"Doyle's hilarious debut novel feels destined for the big screen . . . reminiscent of the best of John Hughes' '80s comedy classics. . . . Doyle, a former Simpsons writer, keeps this entertaining novel moving at a clip but never forgets that humor needs heart, too." Grade: A - Entertainment Weekly
"Doyle's hilarious debut novel [moves] at a clip but never forgets that humor needs heart, too." Grade: A - Entertainment Weekly
"...a one-night-only joyride through Larry Doyle's brilliant sense of humor." - David Schickler, author of SWEET AND VICIOUS and KISSING IN MANHATTAN
"...outrageously funny novel... " - Booklist
"Hilarious, suspenseful, and a little good-kind-of-sad, the novel is a mashup of John Hughes movies. - Blueprint Magazine
"Larry Doyle has created a perfect literary hot fudge sundae: sweet, naughty, delicious, irresistible." - Kurt Andersen