Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Ratings449
Average rating4.1
My daughter persuaded me to read this. If I were 14 I might have enjoyed it, but I really didn't. I won't say what I thought because it would sound mean and I'm not 14. But really? Harry Potter was great. Phillip Pullman's stuff also. Heck, even Ready Player One and Hunger Games were good. They're all for 14 year olds too, right?
Não é o melhor livro da Becky mas foi o 1º que li dela e sinceramentel, para 1º livro de alguém, é incrivelmente bom
Simon is gay, but absolutely no one knows this fact except for “Blue,” a boy at his school that he is head over heels for that he has been corresponding with via email. This ends up posing two very key problems for Simon: 1. He has no idea who “Blue” actually is and “Blue” doesn't seem in a particular rush to make himself known to Simon in the real world and 2. He forgets to log out of the library computer. Poor Simon. If battling his teenage hormones and trying to hide his biggest secret, he had to add “being blackmail,” to his list of problems.
This book was amazing. I laughed, I cried, I cringed. This book is everything you could want in a fluffy young adult romance. Yes, there are emotional moments in this book, but at the end of the day this book is so full of feel goodness that it's definitely on my list of books to read when feeling down.
no actual review yet cus it's been a minute since the last time I read this but i was just thinking about it and now I wanna reread it so I'll write a full review then. For now, i just wanna assure that this book is amazing! I think about it all the time and it genuinely shaped me as a person. I actually read this book for the first time when I was in fifth grade and very closeted. So closeted, that i was shaking just asking for this book even though no one would know what it's about just based on the title or cover. I related to Simon so deeply and I feel like i honestly wouldn't have come out to my family if I didn't read this book, or at least, it would've taken me a much longer time. When I first read this (in 2017) there were virtually no LGBT books or movies I'd ever seen with a happy ending. It was always either some short story where everyone dies or the main character's best friend played for jokes. Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda was the book that showed me that I am a person worthy of love. It was literally the only piece of media with a queer character who's family actually accepted them that I had ever seen. Simon vs the Homosapiens Agenda gave me Hope. Sure it scared me seeing the homophobia in his school, but I'd already seen that in my life. It was more powerful watching Simon overcome it and find people that love and support him for who he his. I came out to my family and friends a year later. Either way, you should definitely read this book. It literally changed my life.
The book behind one of my favorite films, the book offers a significantly more intricate and dramatic narrative. While I am uncertain whether it surpasses the movie in its entirety, it remains an exceptional read.
2/5 ⭐
I'm trying to read more queer romances so I picked this one up. It wasn't awful but it wasn't as good as I'd hoped. I didn't really like the writing style. I can't really pinpoint why. He said “freaking” way too many times. Literally every other sentence and it was so annoying to read over and over again. Anyway on to the plot. I liked the emails between Simon and Blue and the mystery of trying to figure out who Blue is. However, the reveal of Blue's true identity was somewhat anti-climactic for me. I think that it was because we barely knew who this dude was. Also, nothing in the book made me feel anything which is one of the main reasons why it got a low rating from me. The coming-out scenes and the parts about Simon getting outed just didn't get any emotions out of me. Also, I was not invested in any of his friendships or any of the arguments between them. We also didn't get very much of the romance because Simon didn't even know who Blue was until the book was almost over.
Sooooo much emphasis on the forced outing trope, it got tedious. I did like Simon's family though.
This was adorable. Simon is a mess (in a good way) and I love him and his friends. A heartwarming coming of age story about first loves and coming to terms with one's identity. Worth the read!
No, nevím. Je možné, že kvůli zkouškovém, v němž jsem se do čtení knihy pustil, jsem neměl tu správnou náladu si příběh náležitě užít. Mezi čtením jsem měl taky relativně velké přestávky, během nichž jsem třeba něco pozapomněl, něco se třeba ztratilo v překladu. Kdo ví.
AW SIMON & BRAM REMIND ME OF BEN & NATHAN FROM I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST I LOVE THEM ALL OF THEM
like please i'm so giddy everyone shut up they are so fuckin cute, i love them, SIMON & BRAM SITTIN IN A TILT A WHIRL K I S S I N G
Here's my problem with this book, i watched the movie first, and that movie is BAD! Second, the way Simon is played in the movie is so totally obnoxious that it took me halfway through the book to stop rolling my eyes at everything he does, cause let's be honest he's not the smartest guy. I did very much enjoy the second half, it is a very cute book - will be reading the sequel cause i am very much intrigued by Leah.
This is a book that my teenage self would have enjoyed. Closeted kids talking and everything working in the end. Now I largely was uninterested in Simon's world. The people in Simon's life are flat and uninteresting, and the emails between the teens are just that–between teenagers who speak and think in a very juvenile kind of way. The book is not horrible, just not what I want to be reading now that I am in a different part of my life.
I didn't like it. Not because it was bad or anything. It's the complete disregard for how cool the “Who is Blue?” reveal could have been that ruins the book. The person it turns out to be is just so boring. They're cute and all but it could have been this cool twist but nah. The two just meet up and the books end after some completely pointless sweet nonsense.
I love teenage LGBT romances. This is by far the worst one I've read so far.
Bonus: Renaming a book to the film's title just left me speechless.
So I started the book back in 2018 after watching the movie. I can't remember if I started the book right after or waited a bit and can't be bothered to check right now. I was able to see a pre-screening and loved the movie completely. It just tugged at my heart and just felt like perfection. I was legit scared to read the book.
I finally decided to get this off my current reads list and listened to the audio on Anyplay. I have to say that I much prefer the movie to the book. I just felt the emotions more in the movie. Both were sweet and the excitement of new love came through in both in the end that's always beautiful to feel, see and acknowledge.
Me fascino. Realmente muy bueno, me gusto desde principio a fin. Y si bien personalmente intuía quién era Blue, el misterio está MUY bien planteado y todas las relaciones entre los personajes se desarrollan de forma PERFECTA. Lo acabo de terminar de leer y ya lo leería de nuevo, porque me pareció maravilloso. Recomendadisimo.
Very readable but not memorable. I was expecting more based on the award nominations.
a mostly beautiful book meant to leave you with big smiles. it all ties together well enough at the end. the main character felt a little bit narcissistic, but what's a character without a character flaw
I want to give it 4.5 stars but there are no half options. It was a really quick read and kept my interest throughout. There were just some moments that were a bit too cheesy for me. Also, I felt the ending was pretty abrupt. When I turned the page I was expecting another chapter and not the acknowledgements page.
Overall a very good book and I'm glad I finally read it.
So I really enjoyed this!
It was really cute and fun to listen to. I also read the audiobook and the narrator was one of the best I've ever had the pleasure of listening to!
It's light-hearted while also getting some deeper messages across at the same time. I will say, being a high-schooler myself, I felt that some scenes were a bit unrealistic and contrived, but I did really enjoy reading it overall.