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  <title><![CDATA[About a Boy]]></title>
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  <default-description>Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1998</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>About a Boy</original-title>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 19:42:17 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 17 20:05:11 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant - ok, that's just a bad homage to the Brits but really, this was a funny, sweet book. I'd have given it a 3.5 but with no half-stars at my disposal, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. Anyway - bought it b/c I was looking for High Fidelity at our local used shop but this was the only Ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10598685">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 22 09:57:35 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 31 13:42:34 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Will Freeman has some growing up to do.  At 35, he lazes around all day listening to his CDs, watches &quot;tele,&quot; dates serially and by nature keeps himself from any emotional entanglements, living off the royalties of a single Christmas tune his father wrote.  After dating a single mother, Wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8073217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42325416">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 02:07:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 08 02:10:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even better than the film version... funny and wry and pithy.  Some of the best British writing of recent years.  A quick read for me, much appreciated after a diet of heavy non fiction this Fall.  If you're looking to enjoy yourself for several hours, this is a good bet.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jul 01 22:21:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I almost find it sacrilege to claim a movie is better than the book. But I'm taking that stance here. No that the book wasn't good. I enjoyed it. I just think the adaptions they made to update the book (it's set in the era of grunge music) were improvements and the cast well played (especially Marcu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25085188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18279130">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Mar 21 08:24:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only thing wrong with <u>About a Boy</u> is that I read it just after finishing <u>High Fidelity</u>.  After absolutely loving <u>High Fidelity</u>, <u>About a Boy</u> was just a little bit of a disappointment.<br/><br/>Another Hornby book that was made into a movie.  Another book about a thirtysomething man who can't gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18279130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9033505">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 12 19:43:34 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 12 19:49:44 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, this was a slight disappointment after High Fidelity, which I loved.  This had a similar style and humor which was so refreshing after a long week, but it fell short of High Fidelity's originality and wit - I guess each book needs to be judged on its merit, but even so this one was sometimes t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9033505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6412165">
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked About a Boy. I did. But somehow I never get fully sucked in by Nick Hornby. I'm not sure what it is. He just doesn't quite manage to convince me. <br/><br/>I did enjoy when Will falls in love. <br/><br/>&quot;Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it happened to friends it had alway...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6412165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6092814">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 12 08:26:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 21 12:06:17 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nick Hornby is a master of writing a heartwarming book that isn't heartwarming (I mean that as praise, in case that wasn't clear). His brilliant method is to make the main character as self-centered and unadmirable as possible, then make him do something incredibly good, but rationalize his or her a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6092814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3043776">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 13 16:13:21 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 20 08:28:59 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have weird habit of reading books that were made into movies AFTER I've seen the movies. Dopey, right? I don't know why I love to do this. I guess just to see how it all turns out on the other end.<br/><br/>Anyway, this review is pretty straight forward: &quot;About a Boy&quot; is awesome. Like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3043776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14196985">
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    <body><![CDATA[Books into movies...I always try to read the book first. If I don't succeed, I rarely will read the book later. But there are exceptions and books by Nick Hornby fall into that category (next on my list by him is High Fidelity).  I won't say much about the plot because you've most likely seen the mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14196985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8782244">
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 06 23:57:09 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 06 23:57:33 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[About A boy<br/>	Novel tentang seorang laki-laki 36 tahun yang tidak pernah melakukan apa-apa. Ia hidup dari royalti peninggalan ayahnya. Cowok ini jadi orang yang suka ngebuang-buang waktu untuk ngelakuin hal-hal nggak penting. Sampai suatu hari dia ketemu sama seseorang yang pengen bunuh diri. No...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8782244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4050930">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 03 18:28:50 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 06 02:08:29 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have to admit, I only picked up this book because I'm shallow and it had a picture of Hugh Grant on the cover. Sad, right? But, it was only a dollar and Hugh is a sexy beast, so I figured why not. Fortunately, I was more than pleasantly surprised at how good it was. This book deals with some very he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4050930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5836754">
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    <body><![CDATA[Originally, I picked up a friend's copy of this  while watching babysitting, simply as a means of amusing myself while the kid was happily playing with some toys. I'd already seen the movie, and figured the book would probably be something that I could pick up and put down fairly easily.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5836754">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="82098">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 23 11:19:00 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very much prepared to hate this book for a roundabout reason.  I've always had a great disdain for John Cusack, he was in High Fidelity which I continue to boycott to this bloody day, which was a book originally written by Nick Hornby.  I continue to boycott the movie version of this novel for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6970454">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 18:49:11 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, if anyone has seen the movie adaptation of this book, do not expect the book to be the same at all. I was a little disappointed at first when I realized I already knew what was going to happen, but it turned out I didn't...at all. The book is able to explore how the character's personalities cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6970454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="721189">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I watched the movie a little over a year ago and enjoyed it. I was surprised how well the movie stayed close to the book until the end bit, even using bits of dialogue or narrative word-for-word. This was an enjoyable read with a cast of some of the quirkiest - yet realistic - characters I've ever m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/721189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18481498">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 23 21:51:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 27 11:23:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really really enjoyed this book.  It is probably my favorite Nick Hornby book I've read so far.  But, I think that I can honestly say that I liked the movie better.  But this isn't a movie review, so I will stick to the book.  The book centers around 2 characters, Will, a self-centered, 30 somethi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18481498">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 16 08:50:17 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 31 18:54:53 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a cute read, but I don’t know if I’d recommend it, necessarily.  I saw it at the local thrift store and picked it up for a quarter or so.  When I’m interested in a movie based on a book, I always like to read the book first, if possible.  I remembered that the movie looked vaguely int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9194253">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 25 22:07:20 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 25 22:37:19 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit that I was slow to jump on the Nick Hornby bandwagon, but I'm quickly catching up. I saw the movie prior to reading the book, which is typically not my style but Hugh Grant and Toni Collette...what can I say? For the record, I also saw <em>High Fidelity</em> and <em>Fever Pitch</em> prior to reading those as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9542099">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 03 15:04:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 19 12:22:24 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. All the characters are really easy to get to know and you don't like them instantly. That is what I hate aobut many books. The author tries really hard to make sure you like some characters and dislike others. With About a Boy, NIck Horby did a really good job in letting yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2683804">more...</a>]]></body>
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