Submarine

Submarine is a novel about a smart, eccentric teenager, who is also a huge dick (some would say that he is borderline sociopathic). Reading it makes you remember all the different ways you used to be like that when you were sixteen, and all the mistakes you made because you couldn't help but to be a dick. At least that's the effect that coming-of-age novels have on me.

I've tried to read this book since, at least, 2016, but I could never focus, and perhaps I would've not understood it so well. Maybe it's right that I read this at 26, and not 18.

I really enjoyed the book's zaniness, and kookiness, it's very irreverent, and often quite funny. I don't fully love it because there's a lot that should have been cut out of the book.

Reading this is not an pleasing experience, so I imagine that the people who watched the film and loved it for the cutesy, quirky “aesthetics” come out of this reading experience disappointed. However, I do prefer the film, it has none of the flaws of the book, and it has a pretty mellow soundtrack that I always listen to.