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Summary: A stuning story
Review: When my teacher told me I'd have to read a novel in English which I was not free to pick I was first totally frustrated, knowing the books usually read in English.
But to my great surprise I found out that "About a boy" is not only an interesting and thrilling novel, but that I couldn't put it out of my hand till midnight.
Will, an unmature 36-year-old who doesn't work, and Marcus, an uncool and unpopular kid, are some of the greatest protagonists I ever read of. They all have their particular weaknesses and are both so totally unperfect that you have to love them. Will never manages to get a relationship going over some time and Marcus is bullied at school but then they meet in a drastic event (Marcus kills a duck, by accidentally hitting it with a hard bread he threw away) and start to like each other and learn from each other.I can only recommend to anyone who likes to read about stories that might be true as they're written, that deal with (almost) everyday topics and are written in such a queer way that you just have to read the book in one go.
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Summary: About a boy book review
Review: The book is mainly about two boys, Will (36) and Marcus (12), who help each other in findig their real identity. Marcus gets bullied at school and is even threatened by his classmates because he's special. He likes listening to Mozart or Bob Marley instead of Snoop Doggy Dogg or Nirvana is not interested in fashion or other kind of lifestyle. His mother is suicide endangered, so she cannot help him with his social problems.
Will is the total opposite of Marcus, although he's more than twenty years older than him. He reads teenage magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows about fashion and is mostly interested in sex. Both live their lives until they meet one day and get to know the better.... Nick Hornby succeeded in writing of a hugely entertaining book for old and young people. Very funny and recommendable!
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Summary: About a boy
Review: Hallo !!!!
I read the book "About a boy " for school, and now I can say it is really interesting to read it. The book shows very good the different kinds of people and how they behave. The main aspects concerning the novel: friendship, problems and music are shown clearly and the reader gets involved.
Based on all the reviews posted here, I realized that the book was probably a fuller version of the charecters in the Hugh Grant movie.
But as I already said,in my opinion Nick Hornbey created a very absorbing novel. It is worth to read it and I can advise it to everybody, succeeds in fascinating the reader on each of the 320 pages.
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Summary: About a Boy
Review: A review of „ About a Boy" The novel „About a Boy" by the author Nick Hornby deals with two main characters Will and Marcus. The book is published by Cornelsen in 1999 and has got 256 pages.
Nick Hornby was born in 1957 and now lives in Highbury.
"About a Boy" was his third novel and it was released in april 2002 with Hugh Grant starring as Will.
Will is 36 years old and he is carefree single, who lives in London. Will is a very trendy and cool man. He spends a lot of time in watching TV, listening to CD`s and especially meeting women. After a relationship with a single-mother, he finds out that single-mothers are very easy to get. So he decides to join a single-parent-group and he enjoys that the women consider him to be a very nice and fond of children and who has a good sense of responsibility. During a date with Susie, a woman of this group, he meets Marcus, who is the sun of Susie's friend. Marcus is a young teenager who isn't cool, trendy and is often bullied at school. During the course of the book they get to know each other better, they experience a lot together and became friends. I am of the opinion that the main characters are the opposite of the normal cliché.
Marcus is a young teenager who isn't very trendy and Will is a cool and trendy, 36 old, single man.
I thing especially this point and the meeting of the different characters make the story very humorous and interesting.
This book is with this very advisable.
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Summary: Review
Review: About a Boy
About a boy by Nick Hornby Cornelsen, 1999, 256 pages.
Nick Hornby was born in 1957 and ''About a Boy'' is his favourite novel. They are all very good that they have all been filmed. Besides writing he also works as the pop music critic for the New Yorker. Today he lives with his family in Highbury, in North London.
The main characters of the story are Will and Marcus. Will is a 36-years-old carefree single man. He doesn't have to work, because his father wrote one famous song which brings him enough money to live comfortably without any sorrows.
Then there is Marcus, a young teenager, who isn't trendy and because of that bullied at school. His parents are divorced and so he lives alone with is mother Fiona. When Will makes the attempt to get a new girlfriend, he gets into contact with Marcus. This day Fiona makes a suicide attempt, but Marcus finds her and she survives. After that day Will and Marcus do more together. Will buys Marcus trendy clothes and so he is a little bit more accepted. Then one day Marcus meets Ellie, a cool girl at his school. He get feelings for Ellie but one day he reads in the newspaper that...
Nick Hornby's About a Boy has some develop sense of humour in it and sometimes one is interesting how the story will go on .In the first chapters it looks as if you are reading two books because of the structure, but this becomes clearer later. In my opinion the characters are well devised . The end isn't as good as it could be because it is an open ending.
So all in all I think that About a Boy is a well-written book which is havily understandable and with 256 pages not too long for such a story. The main characters aren't boring and you don't know how the story will end after you have read 10 pages. So in my opinion it is a good but not a perfect book. I'd like to read better books with more drama and more humour.
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Summary: About a role changing
Review: Will Freeman is a 36-year-old single that lives alone in London, England. He lives a carefree life without responsibility and friends. He follows the latest trends and knows what is cool and what is not. However, he likes his style of life but he is not satisfied with that and that is why he decide to sleep with more women. Will decides to search women that are attractive and that do not want a close friendship with him. Days later he finds the group names SPAT ( Single Parent - Alone Together) where he finds a lot of women that are waiting for Mr. Nice guy. Will recognizes that there are the women he was searching for and decides to change his philosophy of life.
On the other side is Marcus a twelve-year-old boy that is bullied at school and does not have many friends. Furthermore he has many problems at home with his mother. Marcus is a young boy that is not trendy at all and does not really know how is a life of a teenager because he has to care about his suicidal mother and has not time to enjoy himself.
One day Marcus comes in contact with Will and Marcus starts to visit him when he has problems or does not want to go home. With every visiting Marcus trusts more and more Will and sees in him a close friend. Nevertheless both starts to learn from each other how to act their own age. All in all it can be said that the book is about growing up and two boys and their development during the story. Furthermore it is about dissatisfaction about the different situations of the life of the two boys and the new experience to fall in love with somebody.
I like the book very much because Nick Hornby describe the character Will in a very ironic and satiric way and Marcus very realistic and grown up. Admittedly it is also important to say that Hornby uses here a role changing between the two characters and if you like the book then watch the movie with Hugh Grant because it is the perfect transposing of the book.
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Summary: Lots of Laughter
Review: Nick Hornby's books are laugh out loud in a coffee shop funny. He captures the current pop culture like no other author I have read. He is a must read and a good read to get high schoolers reading. I believe that eventually high schools and colleges will require at least one of his books as required reading. It will give a good taste of our era to future generations.
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Summary: Just a great time!
Review: I love the style, voice, and pacing of this book! It was just one of the most fun reads I've ever had. The characters are quirky and loveable, the settings are great, and the dialogue is believable. All over, I'd give this six stars if they'd let me! Also recommended: McCrae's BARK OF THE DOGWOOD
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Summary: Suddenly my Favorite Living Author
Review: Picked up because nothing else to read on vacation - shocked at how good it was - well written and true, lighthanded while insightful, absorbing. Have bought all his other books now. BTW, I thought the movie was the best (only good) thing Hugh Grant ever did, now I'm even more pleased because it's a rare circumstance of book and movie complementing each other.
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Summary: Superb character development
Review: Will is financially comfortable without needing to work, thanks to the legacy of his father's treacky songwriting skills, so he spends his days being a spoiled brat with no attachment to real life at all. Looking for love in all the wrong places, he invents a toddler and an ex-wife and goes to meetings for single parents looking for partners, figuring the women will be easy to hot on.
He gets tangled up with a suicidal mum whose lonely and Marcus, her father-hungry 12yo son who sees more in Will than Will sees in himself - and the rest is history, along the lines of the child being father to the man.
The two main story lines in About a Boy are whether Will can evolve into a responsible adult capable of forming a caring relationship, and whether young Marcus can create the family that he so badly craves.
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