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About a Boy by Nick HORNBY Book Review

Name: Crafty Consumer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Little Boy Blue and a Grown Man Too: Empathy Never Gets Old
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2022
Review: Thirty-six-year-old Will. Twelve-year-old Marcus. They seem to have nothing in common and meet only because Will joins SPAT (Single Parents Alone Together) to pick up chicks. But a traumatic event in Marcus's life bonds and changes them forever. Can a twelve-year-old outcast with a weird mother and an absentee father ever find peace? And can a grown man who's never had a job or a real relationship find something to fill his life other than cool clothes, music, and TV? Nick Hornby's About a Boy intends to find out. Now, I know what you may be thinking. Tote Trove Lady, didn't you already blog about this when you reviewed Hornby's High Fidelity and Juliet, Naked and also the non-Hornby but hauntingly similar The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta? Well, yeah. But the whole arrested development theme is one that's near and dear to my heart. Furthermore, this book's about more than a manchild; it's also about a boy. It says so in the title.

When we meet Will, he's disgusted by parenthood. He hates the way colorful toys litter the once-hip home of his best mate and the way a squalling infant can turn otherwise intelligent people into idiots. And perhaps, most importantly, he hates the way children chip away at one's individuality and freedom, usurping every ounce of time and energy until even listening to a favorite record becomes an act of sedition. And so, at thirty-six, he's contentedly childless and single, living off the royalties from his father's smash hit "Santa's Super Sleigh." Unlike everyone else he knows, he has no complications and feels like he's got the secret to life figured out. If you're having trouble picturing such a man, then I invite you to envision Hugh Grant, who played Will in the 2002 movie. You know, charming and hangdog and harmless. Unlike the real Hugh Grant, i.e., the horndog who got caught with that prostitute.

That said, here are some of my favorite parts:

This is a Will thought that's funny and (although I have a job) relatable:

". . . he had reached a stage where he wondered how his friends could juggle life and a job. Life took up so much time, so how could one work and, say, take a bath on the same day? He suspected that one or two people he knew were making some pretty unsavory shortcuts." (81)

Then again, Will also thinks this:

"That was the point of fashion, as far as Will was concerned; it meant that you were with the cool and the powerful, and against the alienated and the weak, just where Will wanted to be, and he'd successfully avoided being bullied by bullying furiously and enthusiastically." (141)

It seems that Will isn't so harmless after all. As an ex-bully and emotional drifter, not to mention a clotheshorse for all the wrong reasons, he's unequivocally part of the problem. That's why he needs to learn from Marcus, a boy bullied so mercilessly that he gets a crush on his older protector, Ellie. It's Ellie who introduces Marcus to Nirvana; she wears a Kurt Cobain sweatshirt every day. (Did I mention that this book takes place in 1993 and 1994?). At first, Will finds any correlation between Cobain and Marcus odd (he too is a Nirvana fan) but later realizes that it makes a strange sort of sense. When Cobain's suicide spurs Ellie and Marcus on an ill-advised adventure, Will makes this observation:

"It was hard to imagine two less kindred spirits than Marcus and Kurt Cobain, and yet they had both managed to pull off the same trick: Marcus forced unlikely connections in cars and police stations and Kurt Cobain did the same thing on international television." (287)

Marcus and Cobain make people feel, even people who don't know them -- or themselves. And that's just what Will needs in his life. Just as Marcus needs Will's confidence, however misguided.

So, what happens to Will at the end of this heart-warming if offbeat and sometimes sad story? For once I'm not going to tell you. I'll just say that About a Boy isn't about having a kid or being a kid or even growing up, but learning to look at things differently.

While still making time for clothes and TV and, of course, communing with Kurt.

Name: kb
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting Male POV, but lots of language
Date: Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019
Review: I’ve been researching how to better tell stories in a realistic male POV, and this book came up so I thought I’d give it a go. I thought the “inner workings” of what goes on inside the head of a man and young bullied boy was interesting—especially when forced to confront uncomfortable truths.

Where the book loses stars for me is the frequent and in my opinion, useless use of the F word (around 2 dozen times), and nearly every adult in the book comes off as extremely irresponsible in their life choices.

*Possible Spoilers Below*

Are there really that many single mothers with kids in the inner circle of one twelve year old boy? I can see yes, when they were actually at the SPAT group, but not so much in every day life. To me, it didn’t come off as realistic to have every friend of Marcus’s mother be single with kids with hardly any of them re-married and for Will to happen to run into another single mother with a kid at a New Years party.

Ultimately if you can stomach the language and the fact that marriage is viewed as pointless by main characters, you’ll enjoy the relationship between Will and Marcus

Name: Steve
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Delightful book - I'm curious to read more Hornby
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2017
Review: “About a Boy is a sweet, charming, and dryly humorous novel, one that was a joy to read. Author Nick Hornby has a definite skill for conversation, drawing relatable people, and infusing it all with plenty of bone dry quips and emotional engagement. What’s most satisfying is that Hornby manages to be perceptive and sage while keeping the reader from getting bogged down in excess verbosity. In short, he does a lot with a little and had me re-reading passages just to marvel at the simple brilliance in his writing. This one is the highlight for me: “This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.” That line almost had me in tears.

The movie, which sent many searching for this book, took liberties, as they often do, but they also cast the characters perfectly. It’s nigh on impossible not to see the actors in my mind as I read, and while that can be a spoiler of sorts, in this case, it was a perfect augmentation. Still, the plot of the movie took a serious left turn about the time that Will meets Rachel. Furthermore, there is a lot of Ellie (Marcus’ crush in the movie) that never made the movie, especially her connection with Nirvana and Kurt Cobain, a theme that runs through the novel. Why something so easy to include in the movie was left out in favor of a fair amount of plot contrivances that were never in the book is a mystery to me.

I’ve been reading a lot of fairly easy fiction lately and it’s a lovely break from both reality and the stack of philosophically deep, but ultimately dry and ponderous books I’ve been bogging down in lately. If you’re looking for a smart and funny novel that can be read in a few days, you might find “About a Boy” as pleasant and entertaining as I did. I may just investigate another of Hornby’s works, and I can think of no better compliment.