My So-Called Life Goes On by Catherine Clark
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Book Reviews of My So-Called Life Goes On
Book Review: What a dissapointment
Summary: 2 Stars
After recently re-discovering My So-Called life on Noggin, and then finding out there was a book that followed the characters after the series ended, I was very excited to find it. I immediately searched for the book everywhere, couldn't find it, as it is now out of print. I finally found it at one of my local libraries, and read the entire book in a few hours.
The book was NOTHING like the show. True, the same characters are there, but there is no real life to the book. Angela now seems shallow and even flaky at times. There was not the same depth to any of the characters, or the entire story, as there was in the show.
To me, the ending left me wondering why I wasted my time. I read the book, thinking the whole time that something interesting would happen. The only thing interesting was with Brian. In fact, I feel like most of the book focused on him more than anyone.
All in all, I feel like after reading the book, it took me no farther than the last episode of the series did. Even if you are a huge MSCL fan, I wouldn't bother.
Book Review: A mockery of a great show!
Summary: 1 Stars
What's wrong with this book? Where to begin? The best place to begin would be to summarize what was right with the show. "My So-Called Life" touched its viewers with genuine emotion, clever dialogue, brilliant stories, and complex and sympathetic characters. The viewers genuinely cared about these people. This book, however, is a completely different story. There is no real emotion here at all. These characters are cardboard cut-outs of their counterparts from the show. The author has turned them into shallow, self-involved, yahoos. Angela, the introspective and deeply romantic star of the show, is reduced to simply being self-involved and often cruel. The story, such as it is, barely connects to the last episode of the series. We would have expected some emotional, dramatic confrontations in the aftermath of that episode. Don't look for them here. Gone also is Brian and Rickie's developing friendship. What we are left with is the sort of intrique that hasn't been interesting since high school study hall. The "plot" is about who-likes-who, who-slept-with-whom, who-fantasized-about-whom. All of this revolves around love triangles within love triangles which resemble an episode of "Melrose Place." Toward the end, the book degenerates. Give this one a miss!Book Review: I am THOUGHROUGHLY disgusted
Summary: 1 Stars
I am one of MSCL's biggest fans, and this book completely strays from Angela's complex, almost contridictory yet endearing thoughts. For instance, read the excerpt from the book, Angela would NEVER "rev the engine and honk as she backed out of the driveway" or try to run over Brian Krakow shouting "JEALOUS! " The author would have done better basing the story on MSCL and creating new characters altogether. However if you dearly miss the show and wouldn't mind the dramatic mutation, then it wouldn't be so terrible. But if you simply fell in love with the characters, don't read it, it'll break your heart.
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