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Where The Fuck Are The Pictures? About A boy

About A Boy by Nick Hornby


Characters:

Will
A 36 year old unepmloyed self described "cool guy". He never has to work because of royalties he gets from a Christmas song his dad wrote.

Marcus
12 year old boy. Son of Julia. The smartest character in the book, and the one I liked the most, which isn't saying much.

Julia
Mother of Marcus. She is a depressed suicidal hippie. The worst character in the book.

The book is written from both Will and Marcus's point of view. Using two points of view does help the book, but not much.

Will is an ass. He lies about being a single father to meet single mothers. He's too insecure to meet women unless he's lying about having a kid. He meets Julia through a group called SPAT (Single Parents alone together). They end up going to a lake where Marcus kills a duck. Marcus gets in trouble and after that Julia tries to commit suicide.

Later, Will confesses about not having a kid. At this point I thought the book could make a turn for the better, but I was wrong. Will starts to use Marcus to date other women, continuing his lie. This is the point where I almost gave up on this book.

Luckily I finished it. The last third of the book is so awful its funny.
It all starts with Marcus's dad falling off a roof and hurting himself. Marcus and his friend Ellie go to visit him. This is on the same day that kurt cobain kills himself. Yup, thats how bad this book is. Marcus and Ellie get off the train and see a music store with a life size cardboard cut out of kurt kobain in the window. Ellie thinks the shop owner is trying to profit off of his death so she decides to break the window and take it. She and Marcus get arrrested for this and their parents and Will (who is still nobody's parent) come to get them. There is a hilarious scene in the police station between Ellie and the shop owner, who is "kurt cobain's biggest fan" who is also a goth, which makes her the most pathetic character in the book. Everyone ends up going home except for Marcus, who spends the night at his fathers house. There is a touching father son moment when Marcus gets his dads pot off the shelf for him. At least I think it was supposed to be touching, but I found it horribly disturbing.

The things I hated about this book was everyone lying to everyone about everything. There wasn't one moral character in the book. I also hated how Will chased after single mothers. Doesn't he realize that 99% of them are fucking crazy? The only somewhat relatable character was Marcus, but even he got annoyingly stupid by the end of the book.

I give it one out of five stars, just because of the unintentionally funny ending.

The movie was semi-cute.

Was it like the book? Because I still want to see it, but if they had all that Kurt Cobain crap in it I won't waste my time.

Rent it, don't waste your money buying it. Hugh Grant plays Will and does a pretty good job at it too...I thought it was as cute movie...kinda boring in the middle part, but good!

The title of this thread sounds gay as hell.......it sounds like you are looking for pictures about a boy.

The movie is pretty good. No Kurt Cobain stuff, though I don't get how that hurts the story. I also don't understand what the characters being amoral has to do with the quality of the story. They end up being "better people" in the movie, by the way, so you'll probably like it.

If I had seen the movie first, I probably wouldn't have cared about Wills constant lying. It was just harder to take in the book because I kept waiting for a pay off.

kurt kobain and nirvana suck. Thats the problem I have with them.

Still don't see the connection. Could have been Milli Vanilli and the writing's the same.

I felt like the author was trying to get an emotional response out of the reader by involving kurt cobains suicide. It was a cheap gimmick that didn't work.

Oh. Then it wasn't just Nirvana's involvement.

rex said:
So this is whats going to happen from now on? Everything is going to be one big joke? Is it going to be impossible to do anything serious here from now on?

yup

Rex said: Just remember, who ever did this let me get to them. Thats how sad they are. And their too chicken shit to post under their real id. Yup, they're winning. You guys really got me this time.

Been two weeks now
Kitchen stinks now
Finally got the guts to saunter in
And don a pair of gloves

And the janitor sleeping in a drum
Janitor I’ve become

Bubbles bristles
Thorns and thistles
Liquid sticks to things
That never should be seen by anyone

Like the janitor sleeping in a drum
Janitor I’ve become

And it amazes me how easily things go away
A chemical for every need
And someone else’s problem when I leave

Is the janitor sleeping in a drum
Janitor you’ll become
You’ll become.

Here's the fucking pictures!