About a Boy (Movie Tie-In) by Nick Hornby Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of About a Boy (Movie Tie-In)
Book Review: Similarities between a young boy and one about 25 older.
Summary: 4 Stars
Laughing frenzy...Not hitting me as hard as 'High Fidelity'(being a hopeless single myself) but demonstrating other qualities. This book shifts between the insides of Marcus'(a young 'geek' with dificulties adapting to new surrroundings) and Will's(a 36 year old lazy guy whos only thought is how to lure the next woman into his bed)brains - strange places I might add. Will's mind is to immature for his age and Marcus' is to grown up. They guide each other towards maturity - the blind leading the blind...simply hilarious.Book Review: New Britain, New Man, Artificial and naive
Summary: 2 Stars
Just a few words. This is one of the sub-literary new fiction outings we 've been noting recently. The book is well constructed, all the ingedients for market success are in, but it has no soul or real substance. It reinforces a political system and social structure that makes young boys grow up to be well or not-so-well adjusted boys in their thirties or forties, it complements them and coaxes them into believing that 'that`s all there is' and 'things aren't that bad' and 'you are just one of the lads, but special in your own way' and so on. Buy and read something better, more challenging and inspiring, this book is like a drug, sort of good when you 're on it, then feeling empty when off. This book started off as a short story published on the New Yorker, it should have stayed this way. Hornby has said all he had to say in his very good, and refreshing, book HF. And a quote from Sartre: 'If literature is not worth everything then it is worth nothing' Now don't take this too literaly, this is an aphorism, still a revealing one. Thanks for the space and time.Book Review: A must read for Hornby and Hornby fans alike
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a touching yet humerous portrayl of life as a pre teen (Marcus) and a pre grown up (Will 36) The story is both funny and tear jerking as Marcus comes to terms with himself at the same time Will begins to know himself. The characters are well developed and Hornby captures the termoil of the young and mature perfectly. There is a real sense of reality and Horby keeps a perfect pact throughout the book. The book is easy to devour in one sitting. Most impressive!Book Review: NOT JUST ONE FOR THE LADS
Summary: 4 Stars
THIS IS A FUNY AND HEART WARMING BOOK, UNLIKE OTHER BOOKS OF HORNBYS IT IS NOT A PREDOMINANTLY 'LADS' BOOK THE GIRLS WILL DEFINATELY ENJOY IT. I LIKED THIS BETTER THAN EITHER HIGH FIDELITY OF FEVER PITCH.Book Review: Beautifully written
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book. This is the best of the three he has written so far. It was far more mature than his previous books and written with an engaging honesty that was often funny and nearly always painful to read. Will is like a scarier version of Adrian Mole. Inept and floundering in a grown up world of which he is really not a part. His scenes with the young boy are intense and emotional and show his growth as a human being with painful intensity. There were moments of real tenderness in this book and yet it pulls no punches. It seemed real to me, and that was really special.