A companion to the duff ebook written by kody keplinger. I found myself not even caring what happened to the characters after a while, i kept reading expecting it to get better, to match the first half. Of all those movies, the duff was easily the best one. And the epitome of her new wave teen queen comes from the ending of the duff in one of its final scenes, which happens at you guessed it the big dance. The duff seventeenyearold bianca piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesnt think shes the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. Gone girl is a pretty gripping story, the kind where just one more page easily turns into five more chapters, and in this respect, its a pretty easy read. This title makes biancas head spin, and she goes into a small identity crisis. When school manwhore wesley informs bianca that, compared to her group of beautiful friends, she is the duff designated ugly fat friend17yearold bianca is horrified, outraged, and cant stop thinking about the label i couldnt believe he was making me worry about such stupid, pointless, shallow bullshit. Bianca is the duff, the designated fat friend but only by comparison to her two modelgorgeous best friends. We can already declare the duff to be the worst movie of. I want to know his thoughts and emotions as he was starting to fall in love with bianca.
This study guide consists of approximately 42 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the duff. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read lying out loud. But according to the clock it wasnt even nine yet, and i could already feel. I met the author my first year at the book expo in 2010 she was 17 at the time 2. The book revolves around duff bianca, however has a lot of other entwining characters. The duff the movie, the book, and how my opinion has changed. If you read gillian flynns smash bestseller gone girl, then im sure youve also been up on the questions surrounding the ending, and youre eager to.
Spoiler page for gone girl by gillian flynn book journey. The first half of the book was great, she built up the suspense masterfully. The ending of gone girl is a big point of contention for a lot of readers. Especially when highschool manslut wesley rush tells her shes the duff, her friends designated ugly fat friend, and tries to cozy up to her in order to get into her friends pants. But read the book and tell me how the book doesnt do the opposite of that. Bianca is insulted and devastated, but she soon realizes wesley is right. A smart highschooler gets a rude awakening to the intricacies of the pecking order in a comedy starring mae whitman. Diary of a pissed off book fan why the duff movie didnt.
Seventeenyearold bianca piper may not be the prettiest girl in her high school, but she has a loyal group of friends, biting wit, and a spoton bs detector. The term the duff was basically part of the main focus of the book ever since wesley introduced the term on page 6. As the duff in many a friend circles in high school i found this book refreshing. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of. A companion novel lying out loud was released on april 28, 2015 and is set in the same world as the duff. The second hand seemed to be frozen, and i prayed the damn thing was broken or something. Bo dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama whos not exactly sober most of the time. Not that she knew about being the duff until the schools player, wesley rush, told her in a club and she threw a drink in his face. And, like you i though what they did to toby in the movie was tragic, they made him that typical guitar, indie playing guy. The characters arent nearly as dickish in the book. Find all 28 songs in the duff soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Shes also way too smart to fall for the charms of a manslut and slimy school hottie wesley rush, who calls bianca the duff the designated ugly fat friend of her crew. The duff, by kody keplinger, is a novel of transformation and offers the reader a myopic view of life as a teenaged outsider. We texted back and forth as she had a hard time getting into it while i loved it from the start.
The duff soundtrack music complete song list tunefind. Everyone in town knows the dickinsons are a bad lot, but bo doesnt care. Downing cherry cokes and watching her two best friends hoof it out on the dance floor of the local teen club doesnt make 17yearold bianca piper feel good about herself. Back in january, entertainment weekly ran a cover story on the then upcoming adaptation of gillian flynns bestselling novel gone girl.
Nonetheless, its filled with psychologically complex characters, lots of subplots, and tons of important detailsso dont zone out, blink, or skim passages, because you very well might miss something. People exploit the duff to get to the popular people. Watched 50 shades, jupiter ascending, hot tub 2 and the duff. Gone girl author gillian flynn talks murder, marriage, and con games gone girl author gillian flynn to write her first young adult novel amazon picks its 10 best books of 2012.
Bianca spends a bit of the book upset by the fact that she is the duff, what she learns is that everyone is a duff. The duff does not actually have to be ugly or fat, he explains, its just the person in a social group who is less popular and more accessible than the others in the group. People seemed to buy into the concept of the duff way more than they did in the book. A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the duff designated ugly fat friend. Elizabeth scott, author of living dead girl and the unwritten rule the duff is both hilariously snarky and emotionally turbulenti thought about it long after i put it down. Heres how gillian flynn defended the ending of gone girl. Read on for flynns explanation as to why gone girl s ending is the only one that would have worked. With mae whitman, bella thorne, robbie amell, allison janney.
New york times and usa today bestselling author of the duff kody keplinger is back with a stunning new ya novel about the risks well take to save our friends. Which i wish i wouldve known when i was in high school. The theme of transformation is found through out the entire book. I sipped my cherry coke, watching the clock above the bar. A comedic snapshot about what its like to be a teen today.
Sharp, hot, thoughtful, and searingly honest, the duff is one of the best young adult novels to come along in ages. New film the duff is based on the premise that every group of female friends has a designated ugly fat friend whose sole purpose for being in the group is to act as a gateway to her prettier companions. From then on, bianca was feeling insecure about herself and applying the term everywhere until she managed to overcome it towards the very end of the book. The popular girls can be writers and hackers, the football player is kind and sensitive, and the object of a main characters.
Keplinger was 17 when she wrote the novel, which was released on june 7, 2011. Teens have sex, use birth control, and worry about pregnancy. Bianca is a cynical girl, but her friends dont mind it. Listen to trailer music, ost, original score, and the full list of popular songs in the film. A powerful message brought by a sarcastic girl named bianca. Shes also way too smart to fall for the charms of manslut and slimy school hottie wesley rush. Gone girls ending is different from the book in these. Granted, the other movies were painfully badly written, but i still think the duff was a good spiritual successor to mean girls. In the book, at least desis mother goes to the police, hysterical, saying that amy killed her son even though shes whisked away, theres the faint hope that maybe the. Watched the movie and was hella disappointed with how much the plot was changed. A film based on the novel, also entitled the duff, was released in 2015. Run by kody keplinger hardcover book the parent store. Yep, this is a real movie, produced by cbs films and for some reason costarring.
Gone girl is the movie flynn fans hoped for and sets pike up for a worthy oscar nomination but fincher disappoints in failing to improve upon the alreadybrilliant book. The novel begins as the protagonist, bianca piper, goes with her best friends, jessica and casey, to the local teen nightclub. Designated ugly fat friend is a romantic young adult book about feisty bianca, who ends up falling in love with wesley, a boy she hates but cant help hooking up with. I wouldnt ask casey and jessica to leave until eleven.
The ending of the duff is the films strongest, most. Warning the ending to these books will be revealed. So, i gave it a shot and hoped that i shared my ideas clearly. I just finished listening to the audio book gone girl and am disappointed in the ending. She doesnt drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. The articles author stephen lee quotes director david fincher the social network, se7en on the authorpenned screenplay for the filmwhich stars ben affleck and rosamund pike as nick and amy respectivelyindicating. One friend began reading the book at the same time i started listening. I know its most definitely not grammatically correct, but im trying.
It also undermines some typical teenmovie stereotypes. The duff 510 movie clip its go time 2015 hd duration. The duff is smart, sassy, and spirited exactly what youd want in a comingofage high school movie as long as youre ok with some crude, racy humortalk. One night when all three are out, bianca finds herself near the school manwhore wesley, who proceeds to educate her on the fact that she is the duff. The book spoiler is always looking for a nice little synopsis including the ending of any current best selling book. I really wish there was a wesley pov from beginning to end of the duff. The duff remains one of the best books in my opinion while the movie is the worst book to movie remake in my opinion, again. As gone girl rolled through production, there was talk about director david fincher and screenwriter gillian flynn tinkering with and possibly changing the ending.
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