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Pat embarks on a plan of self-improvement in order to win Nikki back. At a dinner with his friend Ronnie and his wife Veronica, Pat is introduced to Tiffany Webster, who has also moved back home after losing her job after her husband's death. On a higher level, it does feel funny and hilarious to read. But, this is actually a deeply serious potrayal and depiction of the inside view of a person, who is going through a mentally and emotionally turbulent period in life.

A must-read in order to get a perspective and understanding, as it will help everyone realise the pain and trauma that a person with emotional and mental illness goes through.

View all 7 comments. What a fun book! Although, as a diehard Giants fan, I can still tell you that the fan in this specific scene really did deserve to get punched in the face. He gets frustrated with all those chemicals within him that make him different from others. Yet Pat Peoples remains childlike in his optimism.

And coping mechanisms like humming and counting to ten every time he sees Kenny G, help, but Pat also needs an actual outlet. But somehow Quick does it. He seems so nice in the e-mails we exchanged. And everyone knows that the only two things Philadelphia people do well is boo at kindergarten graduations and root for evil teams like the Eagles. But I digress. He knows how difficult life can be, and because of that awareness, he understands the struggles of others.

But the goddamn guy remains so positive. And with therapy and medication, and friends and family, he improves. So I dug this book. It tickled my funny bone the whole way through, and it contained valuable messages. So: 5-stars. So four stars it is. View all 21 comments. I loved the movie, so I thought I would enjoy the book and it was delightful, very charming and full of silver linings. This is a book about mental illness and recovery from so it is weird that it has such a light tone.

It works though. I really empathized with Pat and Tiffany and their odyssey to wellness, self-fulfillment and enlightenment. Pat's family dynamic was more troublesome in the book and you could understand why he had such a terrible temper with his closed-off father as an example.

His mother is wonderful, but a little too much of a door mat until she becomes a wee bit more empowered. In the book, he has been in the "bad place" for a much longer time than is hinted at in the movie too.

I loved the interactions between Pat and his therapist, Cliff. This was told rather well in the movie too. If I had one drawback I would say it is in the way Pat talks to himself which is in a monotone voice and he is always reciting trite phrases to himself, but perhaps this is his way, since he loves sports and silver linings of getting to a version of his world that he can understand and strive for.

View all 27 comments. I read many, many, many books. I am happy to read anything from classic fiction to pure escapist chic lit. I don't mind mediocre writing, gratuitous sex scenes or weak predictable plots since the authors allow me to enter another world for one or two hours every day, and for that I am grateful.

Even if their books are easily forgettable, for the time that I am reading them, they are a fun way to spend my time. But every now and again a book comes along that makes me rethink my strategy of readin I read many, many, many books. But every now and again a book comes along that makes me rethink my strategy of reading everything and anything. A book that is not forgettable, that is well written and that has characters I would like to meet. The Silver Linings Playbook is such a book, and as soon as I complete this review I am going to search for other books by Matthew Quick.

The book is told from the perspective of Pat Peoples, intentionally named, I am sure, to be representative of all people. Since he is definitely not mentally stable, his perspective is simple and almost childlike. He has an unshakeable belief in a happy ending and is determined to take responsibility for creating his own happy ending. Through him we meet a cast of characters who are neither good nor bad, but just ordinary people who make mistakes and try to fix them.

It is about the love of family, the loyalty of friends, the need to put right what is wrong and most importantly the search for happy endings. I could spend hours talking about each and every character, but that would spoil the book for you. However, Pat's mother deserves a special mention. As a mother I completely identified with her unconditional love of her son.

I loved that she bought him trendy clothes and an entire home gym and know exactly why she did it. If you can't fix your child inside, then you will try to fix the outside. What you absolutely cannot do, as a mother, is nothing! Visit my Blog Another Book Blogger for more of my reviews. Well, thank god that's over. I don't know what's wrong with me, considering everyone else seems to think this is a good book 4 stars. Me - not so much. I can see how I would like the movie though.

I should just stick with that. I mean, I understand the construct - but I kind of felt like the "diary style" writing limited the author's ability to let me really feel the story. I was so distr Well, thank god that's over. I mean, he would NOT use a contraction. It was so very irritating and stilted and annoying!! I have to say that the best part of the book was the trip through American Lit. I think my brain needs some good literature at this point after suffering through this.

View all 15 comments. Pat likes being home, but his moody father refuses to talk to him unless the Philadelphia Eagles win. Plus, his mother and his therapist are both encouraging him to spend time with Tiffany, a very strange woman who was recently widowed. As he works on becoming a better person, Pat gets to attend the Eagles home games with his brother and makes a lot of friends at the pre-game tailgates. As they start winning, the superstitious fans think that Pat is good luck, and even his father becomes much friendlier.

Instead, the bittersweet humor that Mathew Quick has laced the book with makes it a pleasure to read instead of a depressing slog. Quick also does a particularly nice job of detailing the highs and lows of sports fandom.

Pat bonds with his brother and becomes part of a community while tailgating. The team provides him a link to his emotionally distant and stubborn father. When Pat makes a commitment to Tiffany that causes him to miss some games, everyone begins blaming him for the losses. After they lost 3 in a row, I decided the shirt had run out of mojo and switched to a gold one. I also very much enjoyed the movie version of this. View all 11 comments. Update: I finished this book a day ago and it's really stayed with me.

I've been thinking about the earnestness of Pat. He had such good intentions! He was focused on being kind instead of being right, which is an attitude that could help many of us. He was focused on improving his mind and on trying new things -- more positive attributes.

He wanted to be nicer to his family and he exercised every day -- both good things. If he didn't have an anger problem, he would make a great friend!

I increa Update: I finished this book a day ago and it's really stayed with me. I increased my rating to 4 stars because of how much I have enjoyed the story, even after finishing it. Original Review: This was a fun, fast read. I like books that cover psychological and sociological aspects, and this was an interesting take on a narrator who is anxious, obsessive-compulsive and who is recovering from a trauma.

It's the story of Pat, who was just released from a mental institution and is obsessed with getting back together with his ex-wife, Nikki. Pat is an optimist and only wants to hear about happy endings. He's convinced his life is a movie that will have a happy reunion with his wife if only he can improve himself enough.

He exercises vigorously and has been reading classic literature when he's not working out -- he thinks Nikki will be impressed by how fit he is and how he's improving his mind. We don't learn why Pat was in the mental institution until later in the book, but we can guess it has something to do with his violent outbursts. He goes into a rage when he hears a Kenny G song, he attacks his mother and he gets into a brawl at a Philadelphia Eagles game.

His first week back home with his parents, Pat gets invited to a dinner party where he meets Tiffany, who is also struggling with a trauma, and the two slowly become friends. There is a fun storyline in which the two compete in a dance contest, and Pat hopes that Nikki will be impressed that he's trying new things.

I had seen the movie version, but I liked how the book fleshed out the characters and the thought processes of Pat. The writing is fairly strong and is done all in Pat's voice, so we really see his neuroses at work.

We also get a better sense of the strained relationship with Pat's father, who has similar anger issues and seems to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. I would recommend the book to those who like family dramas, psychological issues or stories of redemption. View all 10 comments.

View all 9 comments. Last time I watched it was four years ago, on the eve on the Eagles' Super Bowl, so Paul wrote: "I've never ready the book, but really like the movie. Last time I watched it was four years ago, on the eve on the Eagles' Super Bowl, so I'd like to say it delivered some good mojo.

Gauri I agree. The film is definitely better one of my favs. But then again I'd read the book when I was Maybe at 23, my opinion will change. I agree. I laughed the majority of the time with this book. This was a sweet story and a quick easy read. I can see why a lot of people would love it. For me it fell flat and was fairly predictable. I felt disappointed when we finally learn why the main character is in the position he is in.

I was expecting something more shocking and interesting. Some parts also felt contrived and too coincidental for me to enjoy fully. View all 4 comments. There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. Norton Juster It appears that this book was structured, not around a plot but around a shamelessly badly rendered character.

This idea could have been surprisingly successful, if in the hands of a author who knows his craft. You can almost hear the echo of their cries as they wither in a lack of creativity and the weight of their soul crush monotony. The main character is a narcissistic, obsessed, chi There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. The main character is a narcissistic, obsessed, child who had the cognitive abilities of a ten year old boy, pampered by a mother with low self-esteem and tremendous enmeshment issues.

He seems to process information at an incredibly slow speed and perceives thing with such little competence that it is truly astonishing; think gold fish. Seriously, referring to a psychiatric facility as the "bad place" when he is a thirty something year old? Does he also sleep with a teddy bear and call his mom into his room, petrified of the monster in the closet?

His behavior has nothing to do with his diagnosis but completely and totally everything to do with a poor conceived central character. He demonstrates borderline tendencies, but these are so poorly constructed and demonstrated that it almost distracts the reader. In the movie they outlined a decent, although simplistic illustration of bipolar disorder. In the book he pops so many pills he is a walking drug store.

Even when skipping his medication he doesn't demonstrate any significant symptomatology. So, are we just to assume that the author wrote a novel about a bloated, stereotypical man? Cause Seriously that's been done.

We also have a therapist that acts in an unethical, immoral, and haphazard manner. This is dangerous in a climate that isolates those who seek out therapists, and in a dangerous time in history where mental health awareness is paramount to a functioning society.

There is some serious misguided bullshit here. All you do is cost me money. Money I could be wasting. May I have another? The very fabrication of this relationship was so poorly constructed that it surpasses expectations of how horrible a character's relationship with another major character could be.

The dialog is tone death, the relations between characters non-distinct. The characters so under developed it seems they are a carbon copy of one another, almost cartoony in an 80s retro before technology sorta way. Trite, repetitive and under develop plot lines. It appears that little effort was put into the majority of the plot and especially the smaller sub plots. Crazy ass bastard is totally scary obsessed with his ex wife of whom he has NOT seen for four years ; it's just really creepy; like restraining order creep fest.

A downright disgrace to a movie that, while completely and utterly flawed, at least held strings of suspense and character development. It at least had a twinkle of self respect and dignity. This book, on the other hand is the complete absence of those qualities and lacks craft, and exudes a lack of skill and sophistication. If this was project runway I could hear Tim Gunn saying "Congratulations on this perfect example of an overworked, underwhelming piece" View all 19 comments.

Recommended to Florence Lefty by: Hooked by the title. Shelves: , psycho-mental , debut , wit , reviewed , favs-recent , wacko-realistic-fiction. A darkly comedic novel, fresh and just plain fun. Recently released from a 4 year gig in a mental institution, Pat People is fixated on reconciling with his ex-wife. Imagine Forrest Gump with a major attitude problem prone to fits of rage. Plus any book with an uplifting message seems to get pegged as lightweight.

Disagree - it managed to avoid the cheese factor with a reality check. Life can be brutal — but in a good way. If you're not amused doubtful you'll like the book, I'd say give it a pass. I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.

But the novel is nothing but a trick. He thinks up the worst ending imaginable: I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath: At first, even though it is really depressing, this book excites me because it deals with mental health, a subject I am very interested in.

Esther loses her virginity, hemorrhages during the process, and almost bleeds to death—like Catherine in A Farewell to Arms— and I do wonder why women are always hemorrhaging in American literature. I actually rip the book in half and throw the two halves at my bedroom wall.

View all 64 comments. I don't think I'm quite in the same emotional parameter as Pat Peoples, who narrates this story. But I felt myself in simpatico with him. He was completely real to me. I kept thinking "Oh Pat! I could feel how life had overwhelmed him. The dismay and astonishment he felt at situatio "Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you if only temporarily.

The dismay and astonishment he felt at situations which other people would shrug off. The parts where he was "cowering" from Kenny.

Yes, another "Oh Pat! The really tough relationship he had with his father had me wishing things could be different for him. For them both.

And his gorgeous Mum! But how hard it would be to deal with Pat, to live with Pat, no matter how much you loved him. Life is often not easy, particularly for Pat who has been away in "the bad place" and has lost track of time and events that occured while he was in there.

He is obsessive, compulsive, quirky and oh so endearing. A good heart beats strongly there, despite the other broken bits. I totally understood so many of his thought patterns.

Looking for answers in the clouds and wishing for the unattainable. And his unshakeable belief in "silver linings". I say yes! There's no point in existing otherwise.

View all 6 comments. The book is SO much better than the movie! I'm actually kind of shocked how much they changed or left out in the adaptation. If you liked the movie, you should read the book and then maybe reconsider! View 1 comment. Here I am again to the part where I don't know exactly what to say about a book I loved. Anyway, The Silver Linings Playbook is an engaging, poignant novel that touched a lot of things: mental health, silver linings obviously , brotherhood, parentage, lies, friendship, love, betterment of oneself, etc.

It also touched my heart, my soul, my kidney, my liver, my pancreas and ten of my vital organs lol. Here's me doing my best to give justice on why this book is worth a read.

See, I can't articu Here I am again to the part where I don't know exactly what to say about a book I loved. See, I can't articulate the right words. Also, hopeful. I did smile a lot and chuckled with some parts I've read and be emotional whenever Pat is in the middle of something that can crush him.

It's contagious, okay. I mean I can connect well with Pat Peoples so seeing him sad makes me sad, too.

But, I really felt sorry for him when the truth has been revealed, not that his efforts will be wasted but because it was really devastating knowing the truth. Besides, I love every character in this novel. They aren't one-dimensional characters because even they weren't fully fleshed-out, there are something intriguing about them that can affect the main character or even the story.

Also, I didn't mind the football theme of the book. I'd rather witnessed and enjoyed the way Pat and others support their favorite team which is actually enlivening if you'd asked me. My favorite part of this book is the dance. An interpretative dance of Total Eclipse of the Heart. Oh, gods. The feels. When I'm reading this part, I swear it was breath-taking and flawless and mesmerizing that I've become emotional and feel things beyond my comprehension.

With this kind novel, I don't exactly note every detail about everything. I just let the story grab and take me. I just let the words and sentences flow to its destination and enjoy or rather feel the ride. And I am thankful that it didn't disappoint. My only complain is that The Silver Linings Playbook spoiled a lot of good classic books.

Oh gods no. Movie: 4. Basically, the movie is better. Russell, took the basic structure of the novel and turned it into something special. The book is a sporadically entertaining but strange story about a man whose TBI and repressed memories cause him to act and think like a teenager, and the unkind, manipulative, but well-meaning woman who is into it for some reason.

The movie is a nuanced, sometimes hilarious picture of mental health seen through t 2. But all of the characters and their relationships make more sense and are much more likable as envisioned by Russell.

He also makes several changes to the story that elevate it from humdrum into an exciting culmination of football juju, high-stakes sports betting, and a climactic dance performance at the Benjamin Franklin hotel. Posted in Mr. Philip's Library View all 5 comments. Mar 09, K. The movie is better than the book. Normally, it is the reverse but this is one of the exceptions. I finished reading the book yesterday and so I bought a pirated DVD copy and watched it today.

The movie people made the dull book somewhat better. Dull because it is all a rehash. I've seen The movie is better than the book. I've seen enough of the mentally-challenged people who have golden innocent hearts in the past. People find them all adorable because we all have our own deficiencies and these fictional characters triumph over theirs despite the fact that they are more mentally-challenged that most of us.

The book is heavy on references to soccer and Pat People's addiction to exercise. These were both toned down in the movie. Pat and Kitty did not dance to Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart but to some remix of tunes that I and my family thought would make them win like in the book.

The movie also injected many dramatic scenes that made the story more memorable at least for me. However, the believability of the ending is better in the book. The movie, being a movie, made it more like in the tradition of romantic comedy hits. The prints per page are few and the font is big.

The language is very contemporary and the dialogue is simple and direct with the author probably trying to capture the simpleness of a lunatic man's mind and thinking. Pat People believes that his life is like a movie. Again, not an original concept not in the movie but there is nothing original about this book so enough said.

Oh, in the movie, there is a scene when Pat Peoples throws the book out of the window. I was thinking about doing the same but it's just that I love donating my used books especially those that I least appreciated and this book will surely be included in the next batch. Overall, I don't hate this book. Just nice book to while away time especially during a long weekend like what I am having now.

I really thought this was 'that stupid book' everyone loves and I would hate. Funny fact: I loved it. Here are seven weird "bestselling writing tips" suggested by this playbook to line writers' pockets with silver: 1. Use short chapters, with chapter titles consisting of a phrase taken from the end of each chapter We like short chapters because we like easily achievable goals ie, I'm gonna read five more pages before I turn off the light and go to sleep -- OK, one more chapter -- OK, one more quick chapter -- and suddenly you've read fifty more pages and stayed up a while longer than expected.

It also means more blank space, so after you've read three or four chapters you've turned a bunch of blank pages and therefore have turned more pages than you've read, which makes readers feel good about themselves and about the book. Employ a damaged or "off" first-person POV ie, narrator to make writing easier Simple, straightforward, even somewhat degraded language and perception is an effective and popular technique because it kicks authorial shortcomings under the rug -- ie, there's no need for striking language, passages, insight etc since the narrator is damaged and fanciness or to use the narrator's preferred term "swankiness" would be unrealistic.

An easy way to pull this off is to define commonly known terms and do not use contractions don't use "don't". Like the "likeability" concept. The damaged narrator herein is likeable because he's experienced trauma and is doing what he can to overcome it. Which is inspirational. And readers like inspirational books. Let the reader see around the narrator. It was moving to learn along with the narrator what he'd forgotten and what he'd missed while institutionalized eg, the Eagles in the Super Bowl!

Bond with readers via quirky terminology. The narrator has language and behavior quirks that at first don't make much sense but over time serve as a bond between narrator and reader, like "the bad place" referring to the mental institution and "apart time" referring to the split with his wife -- also his hysterical aggressive response to the musical stylings of Kenny G.

Set competing love interests in motion, favoring the real over the ideal Impossible love interest for which the narrator obsessively pines comes up against a realistic love interest to which the narrator is pretty much oblivious. Readers like conflicting love interests, particularly when one is impossible and the other is unrecognized or smack in front of the protagonist's face see "Jerry Maguire".

Narrator very simply discusses themes and author therefore sort of deftly associates such themes and the corresponding classic novels with the novel in the reader's hands see Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Also references "Rocky" and "Empire Strikes Back" -- classic American movies -- and the narrator refers to his life as a movie while the book itself is wholly dramatized and therefore feels "cinematic," as though it might lend itself well to the big screen.

I didn't mind different textures in the second half of the book but I did feel like things fell off a bit as a consequence: a four-star book up until the montage? Serve the Community It helps to have a book deal with a microculture that most people don't have access to but which makes readers feel good when immersed in it thanks to narrator's immersion. This isn't really a book about the Eagles -- a team I've seriously rooted for since the late s and read about daily even in the off-season etc -- it's about the community that revolves around the game, the fandom that brings people together.

These scenes made my old heartstrings emerge. Again, it's not about the Eagles although it nicely uses real player names and actual events in the Eagles season, for example the Terrell Owens pill overdose -- it could've used any team with a fanatical fan base.

His hysteria about the Eagles and change in general suggest a history of mental illness he's masked through routine Eagles obsession and reading historical fiction. Meanwhile, the mother throws her hand to her mouth whenever father and son do the Eagles chant minor point: no one yells "ahhh" before starting it and no one spells it out with their bodies and sobs, which is affecting at first but over time seemed sort of sappy ie, emotionally manipulative. The bit where the narrator takes the baby into the ocean freaked me out as the father of a one year old -- that's emotionally manipulative up the wazoo, presenting a scene involving an endangered child.

Withhold major traumatic events until the end Traumatic events for the narrator and Tiffany were withheld to the end but their revelation was spoiled for me thanks to the movie. I'm not sure how I would've responded to the scenes at the end if I didn't already know them.

They explain a lot but also it seems like the narrator would've had a history of violence or at least a few more episodes. Anyway, the traumatic events could've been revealed in the first scenes as a gripping opener but then the reader wouldn't be disoriented along with the narrator and the revelation of the major withheld plot point wouldn't be cathartic for the narrator and possibly satisfying for a reader.

So I was repeatedly told over the course of a few years that this novel was not something I'd like at all -- and since I also saw the movie -- I was interested in giving it a try after hearing my friend rant about it again a week or two ago. Plus, every once in a while I like to descend from hi-falutin snotty lit perch and read pop books and be reminded of the sort of thing so-called "general readers" like to read.

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