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    <body><![CDATA[For a straight man, Chabon is very gay friendly. I know there's been stuff written, possibly by Chabon himself, about early gay liaisons he undertook, but now the man's married with three, four kids. And yet Chabon's smart enough to write this:<br/><br/>&quot;[James] looked over at Crabtree with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6850301">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Second only to Catcher in the Rye in my all-time favorite list of books.  If you are a writer, if you've taken a creative writing class, if you've verged on totally and completely fucking up your life with sweet redemption held just at your fingertips, but which you chose to thumb your nose at for j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6436040">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonder Boys<br/>Over Christmas I met a woman named Storm. When she found out I was a writer she became excited and inquisitive. Her therapist, she said, told her she should &quot;reinvent&quot; herself so she signed up for a five-day writer's workshop. She asked me all sorts of questions and I answ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11770499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[He tried far too hard to be eclectic, over the top, and kitschy.  The entire novel came off as insincere.  The only likable characters, in my opinion, were Hannah and Sara, because they were the only ones with any kind of grip on the real world.  Grady was a slacker and an asshole, Crabtree was a di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/103903">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[chabon's adaptation of the famous tenacious d song.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[ Grady Tripp ist ein Collegelehrer der ganz besonderen Art In seiner Jugend trampte er durch die amerikanische Provinz, vernaschte Kleinstadtmädchen und arbeitete als Tagelöhner, Landarbeiter und Limonadenverkäufer. Als Professor für kreatives Schreiben hat ein Verhältnis mit der Frau seines Fachbereichsleiters. Er hangelt er sich von Party zu Party, von Whisky zu Whisky, von Joint zu Joint. Schließlich fährt er mit seinem Lieblingsstudenten James Leer in einem klapprigen Auto durch die Gegend -- ein ganzes Wochenende lang. Ein Professor also zum Anfassen, der sich mitten in den wilden Strudel des Lebens wirft, einer, der immer unterwegs ist und ständig wechselnde Abenteuer besteht. Grady Tripp ist der Prototyp des komischen und tragischen Künstlers, der von einer unvorhergesehenen Wendung in die andere taumelt. Wie jeder verhinderte Schriftsteller hat auch er einen unvollendeten Roman in der Schublade. Er trägt den Titel WonderBoys und ist seit frühester Jugend in Arbeit. Für Grady ist dieser unvollendeter Roman das einzig Beständige in seinem wilden Leben. <p>   Michael Chabons Buch trägt nicht ohne Grund ebenfalls den Titel &quot;WonderBoys&quot;, denn Chabon versucht, all jene flüchtig wilden Geschehnisse rund um diese Beständigkeit einzufangen. Das Buch beschreibt eine Wochenende im Leben des 41jährigen Grady Tripps. Das offizielle Collegefest am Anfang des Buches ist dabei das einzig geplante Ereignis, danach schlittert Tripp von einem Zufall in den anderen. Partner in seinen zahlreichen Abenteuern ist sein Lieblingsstudent James Leer, ein begabter Schriftsteller, der in der morbiden Welt der Filmstars der 30er Jahre lebt. Als er Leer das Haus seines Rektors zeigen will, erschießt dieser den Hund des Rektors, als sich dieser unglücklich in Tripps Bein verbeißt. Die weiteren Ereignisse des Buches sind in der Hauptsache alltägliche Ereignisse, Begegnungen, Partys, Gespräche, immer wieder Rückblenden und Erinnerungen. &quot;Wonder Boys&quot; ist ein Buch über ein Künstlerleben, wie wir es aber schon oft und vor allem besser gelesen haben. Ein Buch, das sich um Originalität und Tempo bemüht, mit dem üblichen Schuss Melancholie, zwischen Wildheit und Tragik schwankend. Überzeugend kann das Buch allenfalls in der ersten Hälfte. Als Tripp Leer schließlich auch zu dem alljährlich stattfinden Familienfest seiner jüdischen Verwandten und seiner Ex-Frau mitnimmt, wird über den Leser ein ganze Füllhorn von Gesprächen und langweiligen Familienunterhaltungen ausgeschüttet. Am Anfang dagegen bemüht sich Chabon furios um eine temporeiche Sprache, das Geschehen hangelt sich von einem wilden Ereignis zum anderen. Dies ist wirklich unterhaltsam. Faszinierend ist auch die Menschenschilderung: Eine Mischung aus satirischer Überhöhung und Unverfrorenheit, die aber wiederum Charakteristika der Personen auf den Punkt bringt. Das Buch endet dann mit der Aufklärung einer Reihe von Missverständnissen. Tripp gesteht seiner Geliebten endlich, dass er ihren Hund erschossen hat und auch ein vermeintlicher Einbruch wird aufgeklärt.<p>  Fazit: &quot;WonderBoys&quot; ist ein stellenweise unterhaltsamer Roman, der versucht, flüchtige Zufälligkeiten des Lebens zu beschreiben, allerdings kommt er nicht ohne Längen aus. <em>--Christoph Steven</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book after I saw the movie, so I am judging it a bit backwards. I read with a vision in my head of the way the characters were portrayed in the film, and tried to envision them the way Michael Chabon wrote them. For example, in the book, Grady Tripp is a large, imposing man, and his frie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3800365">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that being a pot smoking, washed-up, hippie-like Professor in Pittsburgh isn't all it's cracked up to be.<br/><br/>I also learned that it's one of the things I aspire to be most, although maybe not in Pittsburgh. But somewhere.<br/><br/>Read it, you won't be disappointed. Chabon does a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2177585">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Quirky- The story is that of three days in the life of the narrator, Grady Tripp, a dope-smoking English professor at a small Pittsburgh-area college, who has had a tough time finishing the novel he's been working on for the last seven years. Grady is 40 and trying to hold on to his youth and its ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76503670">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Chabon is a masterful writer and I can't wait to read more of his books.  They made a movie from his story, but it's horrible.  Chabon's book houses a good story, yes, but what makes it fantastic is his writing.  There's no way that that could be captured in a movie.  Skip the movie, read the book. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76298509">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. This wasn't my first foray in the the wonderful world of Michael Chabon, but it was his first adult novel that I have read. I  had previously read <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://readwriteknitpanic.blogspot.com/2009/03/summerland-michael-chabon.html">Summerland</a> which is a fantastic Young Adult fantasy. I'd seen the movie version of <em>Wonder Boys</em> ages ago and loved it, so I was definitely excited to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66095582">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Trifling. After I put this down that's the only thing I could think of that would accurately convey what I was feeling after burning precious brain cells and wasting God-given minutes I'll never get back. But maybe I was wrong? After all when Chabon first appeared on the scene along with Ethan Canin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63402582">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Chabon, another personal favorite author of mine, forges a story about a series of events perpetuated by a writing professor, his talented and suicidal student, and his predatory publisher. Although Chabon is excellent at spinning narratives, I found this novel to be a bit cliche and maybe that is j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51609765">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's the main thing to note: The moment Grady experienced the first pangs of hangover, the reader did too. I had to slalom through the last 3/5 of the book, occasionally finding a nugget of literary majesty, sure, but not having a lot of fun in the meantime. There's no question that Michael Chabon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58059525">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book and Kavalier and Clay by the same author at approximately the same time. What struck me most about the writing was how different it was for the two books. Kavalier and Clay is the ginormous mother of all books, full of careful, detailed descriptions. It focuses on thought...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77026269">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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