I was about to take out About a Boy from my gym (it must be the only video they have there that I have not watched yet, apart from the yet untouched stack of bollywood extravaganzas - but I would not give them too long before I start munching through those too) then I decided to have a go at the novel first, as I'd seen it lying around unread among my flatmate's books.
I wish I did not know that
Hugh Grant is in it, because of course in my mind Will, the protagonist, looks like him. It's not that bad actually, because Will sounds very much like
the kind of character Hugh Grant does best the only kind of character Hugh Grant can do: apparently aloof yet constantly out of place and putting his foot in it, blasé and somewhat snobbish, and 36 going on 16.
I imagine the "boy" in the title to look like a 12-year-old spitting image of Mr
Bboyblues2000, just because they are both called Marcus.
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Wednesday 23 July 2003 at 7:30 pm
the book is substandard, but i saw the movie in london and at the end i was crying and called my father transatlantically.
Thursday 24 July 2003 at 5:11 pm
In that case it must be a very and I mean a VERY ugly 12-year-old boy.