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About A Boy

aurthor : Nick Hornby

publishing company: Peguin
year of publishing: 1998

This time I choose this book because I had seen its movie. And I want to know more about this story.

Will is a man who didn't have to work because his father wrote a song and Will could live off the royalties. He spent his time do everything he liked such as watching videos, having a ride, dating girls. Marcus is a boy whose mother had melancholia and tried but failed to kill herself once. In his classmates' eye, he is a weirdo. Because he had once sung out loud in the class and then he started to had a hard time at school. They met because Will wanted to date single mom.

Will though that single is very attractive, so he imaged that he had a two-year-old son and joint a single parents' club. And that where he met a woman called Suzie who bring her friend's son Marcus to their first picnic. After that picnic Marcus though that if Will could went out with his mom then maybe his mom would be happier and would never commit a suicide anymore. So he started going to Will's house to persuade him go out with his mother. Though he had failed but he made Will concerned about other people's things and feelings. And Will had taught him how to fit in the school. At first, Will is very selfish and Marcus couldn't fit in other kids. And at the end of the story, both of them started to change. Will started to care for other's feeling. Marcus started to grow, learn to be like other kids.

The author use a funny way to tell this story that is why I like this story. I felt that Marcus is right about two people is not enough. He thought that if there is only he and his mom, that would be awful because he didn't knew how to comfort his mom and he need others advices. I think it's a great story and I will read it again soon.

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