of all of nick hornby's books, most of which I own and all of which I love--about a boy is my favorite and the one I most often reread.

hornby does such a beautiful job of creating the voices and characters of both marcus and will. I love how they will both describe the same scene--the dead duck day always makes me laugh (until they go home, of course).

the movie is wonderful as well, a lot of the dialogue and internal monologues are straight out of the book. and I think the cultural updates work (although I miss nirvana)