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  • "About a Boy" non è about a boy. O meglio, è about two boys, uno di taglia adulta e uno di taglia regolare. E' anche, sottilmente, la storia di come troppi soldi e nessuna responsabilità possano rallentare lo sviluppo emotivo delle persone. Ma soprattutto, è un libro tenero e bellissimo, che vanta i ... Continue

    "About a Boy" non è about a boy. O meglio, è about two boys, uno di taglia adulta e uno di taglia regolare. E' anche, sottilmente, la storia di come troppi soldi e nessuna responsabilità possano rallentare lo sviluppo emotivo delle persone. Ma soprattutto, è un libro tenero e bellissimo, che vanta innumerevoli (e pessimi) tentativi di imitazione.

    

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  • Totalmente diverso dal film,divertente e scorrevole(nonstante il mio inglese stentato)l'amicizia tra Will e Marcus è in qualche modo anche commovente.Forse 3 stelline sono troppe,non c'è una via di mezzo tra "bello" e "così così"? Diciamo piacevole!

    

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• ― Sape said on Jul 20, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • il mio libro preferito del mio autore preferito

  • L'ho letto per la prima volta a 17 anni, ora ne ho 24 e continuo a rileggerlo di tanto in tanto e, benchè lo conosca a memoria, mi emoziono sempre. Ora ho provato a rileggerlo in inglese e ho scoperto che Nick in lingua originale è pure meglio che tradotto!

    A livello di trama e personaggi, son ... Continue

    L'ho letto per la prima volta a 17 anni, ora ne ho 24 e continuo a rileggerlo di tanto in tanto e, benchè lo conosca a memoria, mi emoziono sempre. Ora ho provato a rileggerlo in inglese e ho scoperto che Nick in lingua originale è pure meglio che tradotto!

    A livello di trama e personaggi, sono onesta, esistono libri migliori, ma mai nessun libro mi ha catturata tanto come questo.

    

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• ― Stefania, knight of Cydonia (stefy85) said on Sep 17, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • It took me a while to get through the book, with a bunch of things going on. It was good, don't get me wrong, but it just wasn't the book I was looking for at the moment, it didn't grasp my attention fully, but like I said, it was quiet good, I enjoyed the characters as I watched them grow (or in Ma ... Continue

    It took me a while to get through the book, with a bunch of things going on. It was good, don't get me wrong, but it just wasn't the book I was looking for at the moment, it didn't grasp my attention fully, but like I said, it was quiet good, I enjoyed the characters as I watched them grow (or in Marcus' case, became their own age). An enjoyable book if you're in the mood for it.

    

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  • I enjoyed this thoroughly, possibly even more than 'High Fidelity'.

    

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• ― Annalisa (annalisadistasi) said on Oct 21, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Very humorous. I love it!

    

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• ― Jessica Lin said on Oct 14, 2009 | Add your feedback

Nick Hornby's cult fiction debut, the New York Times Notable High Fidelity, was a national bestseller in the United States, and a #1 bestseller in England. Hornby was greeted with standing ovations from The New Yorker (Hornby has established himself as a maestro of the male confessional) to Time (Hornby demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing) to The New York Times Book Review (Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling) to GQ (funny, compulsive, and contemporary). About a Boy stars a guy called Will, who doesn't really want any children. He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily alone in his fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers, and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on. Then Will meets Angie. He has never been out with a mom before. And it has to be said that Angie's long blond hair and big blue eyes, are not irrelevant to his sudden

reassessment of his attitude toward children. She is truly

beautiful. And truly beautiful women do not, traditionally, go out with him. Then it dawns on Will that maybe Angie goes out with him because of the children. Maybe children democratized beautiful, single women

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