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Stoopid #1
Ed & Bo Try to Graduate
Ed & Bo are your average teenagers with a taste for the finer things in life; like pizza rolls, salt and vinegar chips, and long naps. Life is pretty awesome until they're faced with the greatest challenge since that time they lost the keys to Ed's Mom's car - they have to participate in an extra credit business competition or fail 12th grade. The boys must balance rivalries, secret crushes, not-so-secret crushes, and discussions of life's greatest mysteries as they try to graduate. Ed & Bo Try to Graduate is Book #1 from Stoopid, an EPIC Press series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.
215 pages, Library Binding
First published September 1, 2015
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October 13, 2017
Brandon Phan
Date Started: 10/10/17
Date Finished:
To start off, I thought that this book was very interesting and inspiring. It made me think that weed isn't actually bad. The book was about two best friends that smoked a lot of weed. Their names are Bo and Ed. They face a serious problem in high-school that would either lead to failure or graduation. This book had me wanting to read more because it was interesting. The only problem was that the book never really seemed to escalate, it started to during the middle of the book. I will say that this book definitely knows how to make you feel the high. The humor of high-school students and modern teenagers resembles the teenagers of this day and age.
I've read some really good realistic-fiction books but this book is my top three. Just the way the characters act and the way they talk really gets to me. It reminds me of myself sometimes in the book. I can't wait to read the rest of the book series.
This book can be compared to Highly Illogical by John Corey Whaley. It has the same high-school humor and are both realistic-fiction.
If you've never dove into realistic-fiction I would suggest this book, and if you ever wanted to smoke weed, this book will give you the answers.
This book has really made me think of creating my own business because you never know what's going to happen. Although it was fictional, it really seemed real. The way the boys argued about who should buy the salt and vinegar chips next and just the humor is really great.
I felt like I could be in the book and become Ed and Bo's Friends and I could feel the relationship they had. The book was really good at expressing the characters and the book overall had a good plot. Here's what I mean:
"So?" Bo asked.
"So. She's gonna know," Ed said.
"Know . . . what?" Bo asked.
"Know that I . . . like her, man! Come on, I told you this last week," Ed Replied.
"No you didn't," Bo Responded instinctively.
"I'm pretty sure I did," Ed said, but with more hesitation, "unless that was a dream?"
Their business consisted of selling goods people wanted and they delivered them on time. The reviews they got back were surprising to them. They have to make this business to graduate because they lacked a business credit. In order to pass or graduate they need to win this competition between the students that are participating in this event. Oh, and they also win $500 if they win.
If you want to know what happens you'll have to read the book, which I highly recommend. I would say that this book is for readers between teen and adults but mostly teenagers. I can't really say much about the story of the book but I can explain the characters a bit more.
Bo and Ed are seniors in high-school, they love to smoke weed and the both have girls they really like. Ed likes a girl named Hayley. Ed's sister really hates the both of them and her name is Natalia. Bo really likes Natalia but he knows that Ed would disapprove of them dating. Natalia does start to like them towards the end. They like to have the best high topics so they never run out of conversations. They're best friends and Ed doesn't even know if Bo had parents. He also finds out towards the end of the book that Bo does have parents.
Date Started: 10/10/17
Date Finished:
To start off, I thought that this book was very interesting and inspiring. It made me think that weed isn't actually bad. The book was about two best friends that smoked a lot of weed. Their names are Bo and Ed. They face a serious problem in high-school that would either lead to failure or graduation. This book had me wanting to read more because it was interesting. The only problem was that the book never really seemed to escalate, it started to during the middle of the book. I will say that this book definitely knows how to make you feel the high. The humor of high-school students and modern teenagers resembles the teenagers of this day and age.
I've read some really good realistic-fiction books but this book is my top three. Just the way the characters act and the way they talk really gets to me. It reminds me of myself sometimes in the book. I can't wait to read the rest of the book series.
This book can be compared to Highly Illogical by John Corey Whaley. It has the same high-school humor and are both realistic-fiction.
If you've never dove into realistic-fiction I would suggest this book, and if you ever wanted to smoke weed, this book will give you the answers.
This book has really made me think of creating my own business because you never know what's going to happen. Although it was fictional, it really seemed real. The way the boys argued about who should buy the salt and vinegar chips next and just the humor is really great.
I felt like I could be in the book and become Ed and Bo's Friends and I could feel the relationship they had. The book was really good at expressing the characters and the book overall had a good plot. Here's what I mean:
"So?" Bo asked.
"So. She's gonna know," Ed said.
"Know . . . what?" Bo asked.
"Know that I . . . like her, man! Come on, I told you this last week," Ed Replied.
"No you didn't," Bo Responded instinctively.
"I'm pretty sure I did," Ed said, but with more hesitation, "unless that was a dream?"
Their business consisted of selling goods people wanted and they delivered them on time. The reviews they got back were surprising to them. They have to make this business to graduate because they lacked a business credit. In order to pass or graduate they need to win this competition between the students that are participating in this event. Oh, and they also win $500 if they win.
If you want to know what happens you'll have to read the book, which I highly recommend. I would say that this book is for readers between teen and adults but mostly teenagers. I can't really say much about the story of the book but I can explain the characters a bit more.
Bo and Ed are seniors in high-school, they love to smoke weed and the both have girls they really like. Ed likes a girl named Hayley. Ed's sister really hates the both of them and her name is Natalia. Bo really likes Natalia but he knows that Ed would disapprove of them dating. Natalia does start to like them towards the end. They like to have the best high topics so they never run out of conversations. They're best friends and Ed doesn't even know if Bo had parents. He also finds out towards the end of the book that Bo does have parents.
March 5, 2020
i really did enjoy this book. the fact that ed and bo are teenagers in high school made this book relatable. ed and bo just really want to live life and that is very like me. i like the fact that they are thrown the obstacle of having to participate in the business competition or they would fail twelfth grade because it made me realize that school isnt easy and you have to work hard. this book is mostly for the laughs and is targeted at teenagers because of the sarcastic humor in the book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 9, 2015
This book was read and reviewed by my co-worker, Emily
The first in a series where 17-year-old protagonists Ed and Bo must participate in a business launch contest in order to graduate high school. The most important thing to know about the boys is that when they are not stoned out of their minds, they are thinking about getting stoned, and the “discussions of life’s greatest mysteries” alluded to on the back cover of the book are mostly achieved in this state. They spend the first half of the book making light of their project, and then they stumble on an idea for a business catering to a very specific market: they establish a call-in delivery service for people who want some random thing, but are too stoned to make it or get it themselves. Inexplicably this service becomes a hit literally overnight, and while the boys don’t win first place, they still get an offer from a successful businessman to help them further develop their business.
…With a title like “Stoopid,” I probably don’t need to go in much detail here, but this is not worth anyone’s time. Ed and Bo’s drug-induced shenanigans form the entirety of the plot, but there are no consequences for their actions and they somehow succeed at their goals while learning nothing. Even when it’s revealed that Ed’s mom knows about the boys’ drug habits, she only says (to herself) that the government says it’s legal and it’s better for them to do it at home where she can see it; the boys continue their ways believing that no one knows their “secret.” Fans of Beavis & Butthead and the like would probably eat this up, but with the cavalier treatment of drug use (and other crude humor besides), I can’t imagine parents wanting even their most reluctant teen readers to read something like this.
For the morbidly curious, there are over twenty references to marijuana or a scene in which marijuana is used. Language includes two f-words, over fifteen uses of “shit,” and others. This alone in movie form would make it rated R. While nothing graphic ever happens, there are also several references to the boys’ losing their virginity or fantasizing about one girl or another. This might be realistic to teenage boy thoughts, but it still made me cringe every time.
Any other YA book on the market handles this topic better than this book does. I would give it zero stars if I could.
The first in a series where 17-year-old protagonists Ed and Bo must participate in a business launch contest in order to graduate high school. The most important thing to know about the boys is that when they are not stoned out of their minds, they are thinking about getting stoned, and the “discussions of life’s greatest mysteries” alluded to on the back cover of the book are mostly achieved in this state. They spend the first half of the book making light of their project, and then they stumble on an idea for a business catering to a very specific market: they establish a call-in delivery service for people who want some random thing, but are too stoned to make it or get it themselves. Inexplicably this service becomes a hit literally overnight, and while the boys don’t win first place, they still get an offer from a successful businessman to help them further develop their business.
…With a title like “Stoopid,” I probably don’t need to go in much detail here, but this is not worth anyone’s time. Ed and Bo’s drug-induced shenanigans form the entirety of the plot, but there are no consequences for their actions and they somehow succeed at their goals while learning nothing. Even when it’s revealed that Ed’s mom knows about the boys’ drug habits, she only says (to herself) that the government says it’s legal and it’s better for them to do it at home where she can see it; the boys continue their ways believing that no one knows their “secret.” Fans of Beavis & Butthead and the like would probably eat this up, but with the cavalier treatment of drug use (and other crude humor besides), I can’t imagine parents wanting even their most reluctant teen readers to read something like this.
For the morbidly curious, there are over twenty references to marijuana or a scene in which marijuana is used. Language includes two f-words, over fifteen uses of “shit,” and others. This alone in movie form would make it rated R. While nothing graphic ever happens, there are also several references to the boys’ losing their virginity or fantasizing about one girl or another. This might be realistic to teenage boy thoughts, but it still made me cringe every time.
Any other YA book on the market handles this topic better than this book does. I would give it zero stars if I could.
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