Entry 30: It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Don't talk to her!"  Muqtada turns and shakes his finger at me. "She try and make sex in my bed!"
"It wasn't just me, okay" Nia bends her face at him.  He turns back.  "In case you didn't notice, Craig was on top of me.  And we weren't going to have sex."
"Woman is temptress.  My wife leave me.  I  know."
"Craig, I'm outta here."
"Uh, okay!" I answer.  I try and think how to sum it up.  "I like making out with you...but I don't really like you as a person..."
"Yeah, same here," says Nia.

Page 352

This passage involves a few characters I haven't discussed yet.  Muqtada is Craig's Egyptian roommate in the hospital.  Nia's background is a little more complicated. She's been Aaron's girlfriend sense all three of them got accepted to the pre-professional high school. Craig has been unrequitedly in love with her and after they both found out that the other suffers from depression she broke up with Aaron.  She kinda sucks but she's the female character in a young adult fiction novel so I'm not gonna hate on her.  Craig is figuring out a lot of stuff sucks.  Anyway, she comes to visit and they make out, even though craig has a date with Noelle in like an hour, until Muqtada comes in.
There is a movie based on this book and this entire scene goes almost exactly like this until Craig speaks up.  In the movie they dismiss my favorite line in the book as he screams, "I love you!" and Nia walks away.  I think it's really interesting that it goes the complete opposite direction in the movie. Having craig desperately cling to Nia for one last second speaks more of his personality and leads to more development in the plot.
In the end to movie is actually better than the book.  Now that it has been a few weeks sense I finished it I see that this book isn't very good.  Vizzini wrote this book in less than a month a week after he got out of his own five day stay at a psychiatric hospital.  The whole thing just seems rushed and less developed than it should be.  It does have some really great moments, one of wich will be in my next entry but all around, eh.