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Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...
Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy." As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realise that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents-- Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."
What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical-therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame and unfettered clear sight. As fans of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. About a Boy continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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About a Boy的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 10 条 )



好伤感的书,电影最后喜庆了,但书里却依然很伤感
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see, a few years ago, i was really, really down, and i did think about... you know, what you imagine Fiona's thinking about. And i really felt guilty about it, because of Ali, and i knew i shouldnt be that way but i was, and... Anyway, it was always, you k... (展开)
老男孩被小男人教育成长

humorous fiction with a real heart
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E (虽未量岁功,即事多所欣)
"Let's talk about something else, then." But they didn't talk about something for a while. They just sat on the pipes together, moving their bottoms when they got too hot, and waited until they felt like going back out into the world. 画面感好强,情绪太真诚。温暖又真实(虽然场景是在厕所里吧。。)2013-07-17 22:22:32
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笑了出来。 Marcus was right. She had loads more questions, except the way she asked them was a bit boring: she just repeated the last thing he said, stuck a question mark on the end of it and shouted. ‘I go round his flat after school.’ ‘YOU GO ROUND HIS FLAT AFTER SCHOOL?’ Or: ‘Well, you see, he doesn’t really have a kid.’ ‘HE DOESN’T REALLY HAVE A KID?’ And so on.
2013-07-08 03:18:06
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Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was unreciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out. These were people who could not control themselves, or protect themselves, people who, if only temporari... (2回应)
2013-01-15 02:58:59
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E (虽未量岁功,即事多所欣)
"Let's talk about something else, then." But they didn't talk about something for a while. They just sat on the pipes together, moving their bottoms when they got too hot, and waited until they felt like going back out into the world. 画面感好强,情绪太真诚。温暖又真实(虽然场景是在厕所里吧。。)2013-07-17 22:22:32
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笑了出来。 Marcus was right. She had loads more questions, except the way she asked them was a bit boring: she just repeated the last thing he said, stuck a question mark on the end of it and shouted. ‘I go round his flat after school.’ ‘YOU GO ROUND HIS FLAT AFTER SCHOOL?’ Or: ‘Well, you see, he doesn’t really have a kid.’ ‘HE DOESN’T REALLY HAVE A KID?’ And so on.
2013-07-08 03:18:06
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Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was unreciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out. These were people who could not control themselves, or protect themselves, people who, if only temporari... (2回应)
2013-01-15 02:58:59
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E (虽未量岁功,即事多所欣)
"Let's talk about something else, then." But they didn't talk about something for a while. They just sat on the pipes together, moving their bottoms when they got too hot, and waited until they felt like going back out into the world. 画面感好强,情绪太真诚。温暖又真实(虽然场景是在厕所里吧。。)2013-07-17 22:22:32
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笑了出来。 Marcus was right. She had loads more questions, except the way she asked them was a bit boring: she just repeated the last thing he said, stuck a question mark on the end of it and shouted. ‘I go round his flat after school.’ ‘YOU GO ROUND HIS FLAT AFTER SCHOOL?’ Or: ‘Well, you see, he doesn’t really have a kid.’ ‘HE DOESN’T REALLY HAVE A KID?’ And so on.
2013-07-08 03:18:06
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Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was unreciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out. These were people who could not control themselves, or protect themselves, people who, if only temporari... (2回应)
2013-01-15 02:58:59
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I have the book on PDF for anyone interested. | 来自睿利士 | 4 回应 | 2010-03-26 14:42:08 |
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0 有用 serendipity 2009-05-15 21:00:26
这就是生活咯。a long way down的男孩版。
0 有用 E 2013-07-18 23:19:48
He's gonna be ok; they're gonna be ok; we're all gonna be ok.
0 有用 流星ヘブン 2012-05-01 17:42:58
I just love how Marcus changed Will :) Though Marcus may lose himself, it's lucky that we know it would turn out to be alright after all.
0 有用 Crumbs 2016-06-02 00:16:12
前半部分很好玩,常常读着噗出来。临近结尾对于Will和Marcus的状态转变有一点快和不那么信服,包括周围人的反应没写很多没衬托出来。一个小孩和一个大人变成应有的样子,因为两者的相逢,这个主题真的蛮有趣而且还很让人感动。
0 有用 阿🔒 2014-07-05 11:36:26
很喜欢Nick Hornby的书,能感受到作者的真诚。无论语言还是感情本身,都那么的真实可爱。