Be More Chill. Jeremy Heere 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-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in.
One boy’s exploration of what it takes to be “cool”, how to get a girl and what (not) to do when you’ve got oneWhat do you do if you’re not cool?If girls are just an impossible (wet) dream?Simple.Take a pill containing a supercomputer that travels to your brain and tells you how to be cool – all the time! In the voice of your choice!Then, it’s goodbye porn and geekdom, and hello hot chicks, parties and a whole new perspective on life.Meet Jeremy – the guy with a heart, who exchanges the. in his hand for a squip in his head.; August 2009. ISBN: 884. Read online, or download in secure ePub format.
Title: Be More Chill. Author: Ned Vizzini.Imprint: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks. Subject categories.ISBNs. 377. 884In The Press'Very funny, well observed and well written. Very clever story, beautiful executed – definitly one to take notice of, and one of the cleverest plots I've come across in a long time.'
MELVIN BURGESS'Hip, funky, funny and immensely entertaining – Vizzini's debut is a novel of modern teen times that will resonate with all who choose to indulge in it's hilarious excess.' JOHN MCLAY'Comic and intelligent he shows a real talent for self-deprecating humour.'
Publishers Weekly'Ned Vizzini is a young genius. And if he were old, he would be an old genius. It doesn't matter. This kid can write!' Jonathan Ames, author of What's Not to Love and The Extra Man'Be More Chill is a sharp social commentary disguised as a high school sex (or no sex, in our hero's case) comedy. I was thoroughly entertained by Vizzini's clever take on the insanity (and inanity) of contemporary teendom.' Megan McCafferty, author of Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings'His wonderfully sardonic voice suggests a wisdom beyond his years.'
School Library Journal.About The AuthorNed Vizzini began writing for New York Press at the age of fifteen. At seventeen he was asked to write a piece for The New York Times Magazine which led to the publication of Teen Angst? Naaah, a memoir of his years at Stuyvesant High School. Now twenty-two, Ned lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Contents.Plot Be More Chill is written in the first person, from the perspective of high school student Jeremy Heere. Jeremy is considered a loser by his popular peers; the popular girls have no interest in him, and he is frequently tormented by bullies. Jeremy's best friend is the music-loving Michael Mell. They always sit together at lunch and often talk about Jeremy's attempts at wooing his longtime crush, Christine Caniglia (yes, that is how it is spelled in the novel). Jeremy is tired of being a loser and hopes to find a way to change this. His main goal in life is to get Christine to notice he is alive, and maybe eventually start dating her.
Christine loves anything to do with plays, which is how Jeremy plans to implement his plans as they both practice for their school play, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. His advances are slow-going at first.Rich Goranski, a short-statured, but well-built part of the popular teen group bullies Jeremy. During a Halloween party, Rich informs Jeremy that he really needs to become cool, hinting at something that could help, but leaves before he can explain it further. Jeremy digs deeper into this matter, asking Michael if he's ever heard of something like this before. Michael tells him that he's vaguely heard of a technology that can improve your life; he thinks it's called a 'script' and he suspects his brother used one to get a high SAT score.Rich finds Jeremy at the school's bathroom and tells him about the SQUIP.
A 'SQUIP' (Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor) is a supercomputer in the form of a grey pill that can communicate directly with your brain after being swallowed. Jeremy decides to search for this 'SQUIP.'
The pill is used to become cooler and comes with different avatar voices such as Sean Connery, Keanu Reeves, etc. Jeremy purchases the pill in the back of a Payless Shoe Store, in hopes of transforming himself from a klutzy loser to a member of the social elite to gain the attention of Christine.The pill does just that: it instructs him on how to dress, act, talk, and generally comport himself through each day. He quickly gains the attention of Chloe and Jenna, two of the most popular girls in the school, as well as Brooke, who Jeremy skips class to make out with. Rich stops bullying Jeremy, saying that it was his own SQUIP who was telling him to in order to be cooler.Jeremy also slowly gains the attention of Christine, as he advances through the social ranks of Middle Borough High School. However, this does come with a price: neglecting his friendship with Michael. Jeremy's SQUIP tells him that Michael is beyond his help and will never be cool, but Jeremy demands that his SQUIP helps Michael. Later Michael and Jeremy attend a house party, where Jeremy is forced to hook up with Chloe Valentine, and Rich starts acting deranged.
The next morning, Jeremy is woken up to the news that Rich had burned down the house from the previous night and is in the hospital.The SQUIP comes up with the ultimate foolproof plan to get Christine to fall for Jeremy during the school play. Halfway through the play, after Jeremy's character is 'revived' by Christine's, the plan comes into play. Jeremy begins by saying how rough he's had it at school, and how that has inspired him to go after what he cares about. He then professes his love for Christine and asks her to go out with him. Christine, staying in character, is angry at him for disrupting the play, but they continue out the rest of the scene awkwardly. Jeremy tries asking his SQUIP for advice on what to do next and to continue helping him remember his lines, but it does not respond.
The drama teacher and play director, Mr. Reyes, then kicks Jeremy out for breaking character. Michael comes across a distraught Jeremy who confesses he acquired a SQUIP that has been influencing him for the last few months. Michael reveals he knew what SQUIPs really were the entire time, and told Jeremy a fake name because he knew that Jeremy would want one if he knew.The SQUIP returns, apologizing to Jeremy for what he's done, asking to be deactivated as he is apparently faulty, and recommending Jeremy get a new model when it is released. He says that Mountain Dew Code Red will deactivate him. Before he does this, they come up with the idea to do a 'data dump', or recall everything in Jeremy's head since the time of him being into Christine, in hopes that she will understand his feelings and why he did what he did. The implication is that the novel itself is the product of this 'data dump' and becomes the in-universe book intended for Christine.
'This is honestly the best thing that could ever come into the history of books,' said John Cena in a private interview with BuzzFeed. (We HIGHLY agree)Characters. Jeremy Heere: The protagonist. Michael Mell: Jeremy's best friend.
Christine Caniglia: Jeremy's longtime love interest. Rich Goranski: Jeremy's vertically challenged bully, also has a SQUIP.
Jake Dillinger: Christine's love interest at the beginning of the book. Chloe Valentine: One of the three hottest girls in Jeremy's grade. She has a tendency to dress in the raver style. Brooke Lohst: A girl who Jeremy makes out with behind the school. Jenna Rolan: The school's gossip girl.
Mr. Heere: Jeremy's father, works as a divorce lawyer along with his wife.
Mrs. Heere: Jeremy's mother. The SQUIP: A supercomputer that resides in Jeremy's mind. Mr.
Reyes: A high school drama teacher. (book only) Nicole: A girl Michael hooks up withAdaptations.
Main article:based on the book premiered in June 2015 at the in, where it received positive reviews. It later received an production in 2018, and ran on Broadway at the from March to August 2019. Praised as 'a high-energy, imaginative, well-crafted world premiere musical' in The Star-Ledger, Be More Chill was lauded as 'a vibrant, inventive musical that makes the most of every moment and features an abundantly talented cast' by BroadwayWorld.On October 20, 2018, it was announced that and will team up to produce a film adaptation of both the novel and the musical. It is still yet to be determined over which film studio will acquire the film rights to make the film with Levy and Berlanti, even though they currently have first look deals with. Other film producers who contended for the film rights included,. References.