Be More Chill: Swap the **** in your hand for a squip in your head

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This happens with a couple of other female characters. They are all treated like sex objects, including Christine, Jeremy's supposed love interest. She is a shallow self. So here’s the premise: teenage boy is awkward, nerdy, uncool. He hears about a pill, a “squip,” that is a microcomputer that will give him instructions on how to be cool (or “more chill”). He gets a squip, becomes cool, and eventually the squip fails - its technology isn’t perfect yet. I don’t know what to think about this book. I want to think positively about it because I really like the musical, but it’s so different and there are multiple issues with this book. It follows Jeremy who is in high school and has extremely low self esteem, and a massive crush on a girl called Christine.

The Squip Song” RICH FRESHMAN YEAR DIDN'T HAVE A GIRLFRIEND OR A CLUE GOOD TIMES WOULD ONLY SOAR BY I WAS GROSS AS EVERY FEMALE WOULD ATTEST MY SEXTING WAS A FUTILE QUEST MY LITTLE PENIS WAS DEPRESSED IT WAS SO LONELY POOR GUY I WAS HOPELESS, HOPELESS I WAS HELPLESS, HELPLESS EVERY TIME I'D WALK THE HALLWAY I WOULD TRIP I WAS STAGNANT AND IDLE I WAS SO SUICIDAL AND THEN, THEN, THEN THEN, THEN, THEN, THEN, THEN THEN, THEN, THEN, THEN THEN I GOT A SQUIP. JEREMY The interactions between Jeremy and the Squip concerning women is absolutely disgusting. It encourages cheating and the double standards concerning cheating; men are to be seen positively for cheating (Jake) and women who cheat are to be seen as “sluts” or “whores” (Elizabeth). This is demonstrated by every character in the book, except maybe Michael. In any case, the author writes every girl to be the same, and to respond to the same stimuli in exactly the same way which is just adding to the general idea that women are objects. I've very much been looking forward to this graphic novel adaptation of one of my favorite stories. It's a pretty straightforward retelling and I love that the art style embraces the wannabe-grunge of the 2004-era setting. End verdict: I think I (kind of) enjoyed this book because I love the musical. Had it not been for the musical, I probably would not have finished, let alone enjoyed, the book. Its also cuts out a lot of objectionable content (like references to drugs, pornography, and self harm) so the story is more suitable for younger audiences.

RICH shoves JEREMY against a wall—) BUT IF YOU TAKE MY ADVICE AND IF YOU PAY THE LISTED PRICE, WELL THEN YOU GO FROM SAD TO INTERESTING TO HIP YEAH, YOUR WHOLE LIFE WILL FLIP YEAH, WHEN YOU BUY A SQUIP RICH Unfortunately, all remaining scheduled performances of BE MORE CHILLat The Other Palace have been cancelled. As stated before, I love the musical. These characters have an actual personality, for one thing. There is much more development of the friendship between Jeremy and Michael, and it makes a WORLD of a difference. Michael is my favorite character in the musical because of his role and my emotional attachment to what he goes through. As for the book, I don't think it would make much of a difference if Michael was never a character in the first place. It is INCREDIBLE how much of an improvement there is when the narrative is told in more than one point of view (though, I understand why the book was in Jeremy's POV to work for the ending). There is also some lesson that the Squip gives him, instructing him that women and girls are attracted to pheromones. Once you get with a girl, other girls will come to you and want you. -- Again, this is terribly problematic, because it states that every girl will want to have sexual advances made towards her because of the boy's prolific history. Then the Squip gives this comment, "HOW DO YOU THINK GUYS WITH GIRLFRIENDS BECOME SO ATTRACTIVE TO OUTSIDE FEMALES THAT THEY'RE FORCED TO CHEAT WITH?" (155). Now, this is suggesting that there is justification in infidelity on the male's part because of females' "innate" attraction.

When Jeremy first gets the squip, he makes out with this girl named Brooke. Even though it seems great at first, things go badly and Jeremy leaves. Ned is actually a good friend of mine - we briefly dated when I was a sophomore in college and we've remained friends (the book is dedicated in-part to me, in fact) - but I swear to God, I'd love Be More Chill even if I'd pulled it off a shelf. And then he gets a “squip”—a pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow. The squip transforms Jeremy into a confident, handsome heartthrob. It tells him how to dress, how to act, what to say, and whom to avoid. Suddenly Jeremy is cool and can have any girl he wants—but he still only wants Christine. Be More Chill was a really funny book. This book is about a boy named Jeremy, who is the stereotypical geek in high school. Jeremy has a crush on a girl and he wants to become cool. Then he figures out a way to become cool. The way to become cool is to ingest a micromachine called a squip. The squip lives inside your brain and tells exactly what you need to say to sound cool in any given situation. I was hoping that this would break that formula. I was hoping that the attempts of hipness would be, idk, groundbreaking. I didn't want a freakin' modern day after school special.

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When the main character hesitates to be in a sexual situation or start a relationship, the character is continually accused of being homosexual by the Squip. If I had not known the musical was based on the book, all I would have remarked is the similar names and the similar description (Loser High Schooler takes supercomputer pill to make him cool), and NOTHING ELSE. You might have been thinking - wait, wait, as YAF shouldn’t this book have ended with the boy realizing he’s better off as himself, without the aid of a microcomputer telling him exactly what to say? No. No, that’s not the moral: the moral is wait to buy yourself the exact piece of technology that will make imperfect-you more perfect so that you might have money, friends, and sex.

Jeremy has a crush on Christine, but of course she’s dating a popular boy and Jeremy will never have a chance with her. He can barely sustain a conversation with her half the time. But somehow he hopes that things might change someday. The ends of both pieces are so different you'd think that the writers of the musical didn't finish reading the book and just decided to make their own ending. The ending of the musical is a lot better, though. The squip is actually seen as evil in the musical, as it should be. In the book, the squip is just like "Hey, if you want to get rid of me, no biggie. Drink some Mountain Dew: Code Red™" and everyone is happy to pretend there was no harm done. In the musical, Jeremy tries with everything he has to shut it off because it's, you know, evil. However, the musical has the same problem of Hey! Squip's gone! Now I don't have to deal with any consequences!! Suburban New Jersey WHEN I GET NERVOUS MY WHOLE FACE GOES RED DUDE, WEIGH THE OPTIONS CALMLY AND BE STILL A JUNIOR ON THE BUS IS KILLER WEAK BUT IF I WALK WHEN I ARRIVE I'M GONNA STRAIGHT-UP REEK AND MY BOXERS WILL BE BUNCHY AND MY PITS WILL LEAK OH, GAH, I WISH I HAD THE SKILL TO JUST BE FINE AND COOL AND CHILL Nobody pays much attention to Jeremy in high school, other than to make fun of or spread rumors about him. He's so used to this occurring that he keeps score of the insults and jibes he sustains in each class. The only person who really talks to him is his best friend and fellow misfit, Michael.All Jeremy wants is to be Cool. He wants to rub shoulders with the Hottest Girls in School. But most of all, he wants the attention of Christine, a girl in his drama club who won his heart over.