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A review by magbooks
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
1.0
TW fatphobia, suicide attempt and jokes, misogyny, depression, bad parenting, the whole book really
if i really wanted to try and see something, anything , in this book, i certaintly could. but alas i don't fucking want to. No one, and i mean, no one was likeable in the fucking slightest and i cannot believe there are ppl who actually gave this abomination of a book more than one star. Will, for one, is:
- sexist
- misogynistic
- lowkey fatphobic
- honestly a sociopath for all the shit he pulled in the book
every single adult put their child through some kind of shit and put all their baggage on them and then wondered why the fuck their children were so messed up... have y'all seen yourselves? with you as examples it is NO surprise the kids turned out so bad. There ware so many issues in this book and i hated all of them. I don't think I have ever hated a book more than this one and honestly this book doesn't deserve any fucking rights. I had such a bad time reading this shit.
"It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby hast it - in buckets." Literary Review
now, why are you lying? This is not talent. where was this book funny? emotional? NICE? NOWHERE. i had the worst experience ever reading this book. from the casual suicide jokes (continuous i might add), to the misogyny, to the fatphobia, the fact that Will lied TWICE about having a kid to fuck some woman because all he thinks about is railing someone (really), single-mothers being described as raging feminst man-haters... eye. This was released in 1998, that was 23 years ago, you can't tell me feminsim was actually seen like that now c'mon. I could go on on, but honestly?... no.
don't read this book. it was awful. i fucking hated it. bye.
if i really wanted to try and see something, anything , in this book, i certaintly could. but alas i don't fucking want to. No one, and i mean, no one was likeable in the fucking slightest and i cannot believe there are ppl who actually gave this abomination of a book more than one star. Will, for one, is:
- sexist
- misogynistic
- lowkey fatphobic
- honestly a sociopath for all the shit he pulled in the book
every single adult put their child through some kind of shit and put all their baggage on them and then wondered why the fuck their children were so messed up... have y'all seen yourselves? with you as examples it is NO surprise the kids turned out so bad. There ware so many issues in this book and i hated all of them. I don't think I have ever hated a book more than this one and honestly this book doesn't deserve any fucking rights. I had such a bad time reading this shit.
"It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby hast it - in buckets." Literary Review
now, why are you lying? This is not talent. where was this book funny? emotional? NICE? NOWHERE. i had the worst experience ever reading this book. from the casual suicide jokes (continuous i might add), to the misogyny, to the fatphobia, the fact that Will lied TWICE about having a kid to fuck some woman because all he thinks about is railing someone (really), single-mothers being described as raging feminst man-haters... eye. This was released in 1998, that was 23 years ago, you can't tell me feminsim was actually seen like that now c'mon. I could go on on, but honestly?... no.
don't read this book. it was awful. i fucking hated it. bye.