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Stuff: The Life of a Cool Demented Dude
Between his father's girlfriend moving into their home, his brother threatening to beat him up, and his desire to break-up with his girlfriend, Simon cannot imagine how he will ever find the energy to pursue his one true love and finally get things back on track.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published March 1, 2007
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June 11, 2008
This was like a Georgia Nicholson book for boys. Stuff (Simon) is so crazy. His sense of humor is great. I love the way his mind works.
October 14, 2017
very good
January 2, 2012
Simon or “Stuff” is fourteen. His life is pretty normal until his dad brings home his new girlfriend who comes with a teenage daughter, Natasha, and an alarming amount of bath foam and hair products. They don’t get along. And soon after that, Stuff finds he’s not getting along with his girlfriend either – probably because of the new girl, Sky, who’s completely gorgeous and brilliant and funny. Too bad his girlfriend’s older brother Darcy will kill him if he breaks up with her. The only thing that’s going right is Stuff’s drawing – he’s got a comic strip he’s drawing that his art teacher has been running (anonymously) in the school magazine, Art Works. It’s not enough, though, so Stuff decides that the only way to make his life better is to run away. To this end, he starts collecting whatever he can to start his new life as a runaway. Unfortunately, his partner in crime, Pete, is never really serious about the idea, and Stuff doesn’t really want to go anywhere on his own, so he ends up having to face his problems in the end.
This amusing British story (includes glossary of Britishisms at the end) will have you laughing out loud. Stuff’s problems are the stuff of teenage drama – much bemoaned and fretted over, but not really as awful as he thinks/makes them out to be. All of his comics are included within the story, so you get to see how he imports his real life dilemmas into his comic universe (Matthew Armstrong, the illustrator, does a really great job). This should appeal to a wide range of teens because of the humor, the art, and the issues.
This amusing British story (includes glossary of Britishisms at the end) will have you laughing out loud. Stuff’s problems are the stuff of teenage drama – much bemoaned and fretted over, but not really as awful as he thinks/makes them out to be. All of his comics are included within the story, so you get to see how he imports his real life dilemmas into his comic universe (Matthew Armstrong, the illustrator, does a really great job). This should appeal to a wide range of teens because of the humor, the art, and the issues.
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February 25, 2024
Book 217 - Jeremy Strong - Stuff
An unusual one from Mr Strong and one that... well…didn’t sit quite right with me. The language was a little harsher …the themes more for adolescents and well… it simply meandered.
I normally find myself chuckling to his books but not this one. The title is clever as the main character is called Stuff…because he knows stuff. And the book is broken up into little back story sidesteps…about their giant rabbit or why his Dad’s new girlfriend is called Sherry Trifle.
The usual teenage angsts of girlfriend trouble…step mother and step sister trouble … the adolescent troubles of hair…hair all over the place and genuinely not knowing their place in the universe.
The book had so much potential but unfortunately it never seems to hit the spot…never fully deciding if it is trying to be silly or trying to be grown up…so sadly falls somewhere in between…disappointing.
An unusual one from Mr Strong and one that... well…didn’t sit quite right with me. The language was a little harsher …the themes more for adolescents and well… it simply meandered.
I normally find myself chuckling to his books but not this one. The title is clever as the main character is called Stuff…because he knows stuff. And the book is broken up into little back story sidesteps…about their giant rabbit or why his Dad’s new girlfriend is called Sherry Trifle.
The usual teenage angsts of girlfriend trouble…step mother and step sister trouble … the adolescent troubles of hair…hair all over the place and genuinely not knowing their place in the universe.
The book had so much potential but unfortunately it never seems to hit the spot…never fully deciding if it is trying to be silly or trying to be grown up…so sadly falls somewhere in between…disappointing.
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April 19, 2015Stuff is a book by Jeremy Strong and it is about a boy going through typical teenage problems. The boy is called stuff as a nickname because he is always think and doing stuff. stuff is having a bad time because his parents split up and his dad found a new partner who is a snob and has a daughter who moved in with her who is even more of a snob. To make things worse a new girl moved to his school which he fancies and would like to go out with but his girlfriend which he is going out with now would get her brother to beat up him up so he can't. Stuff is having a hectic life which he wishes would just go back to normal.
March 27, 2012
This is one of the funniest books I have ever read! The classic story of an adolescent who thinks his life is so terrible!
Simon (A.K.A Stuff) is a modern day teenager whose parents have just seperated, imprisoning him with La Trifle and same-age step sister Natatsha (A.K.A Trash). While he faces hilarious problems at home he also faces another dilemma in his school life. The new kid, Sky, is a slim, pretty and irresistable girl that Simon cannot imaging no being with. But he already has a girlfriend, Delphine whose brother is as
Simon (A.K.A Stuff) is a modern day teenager whose parents have just seperated, imprisoning him with La Trifle and same-age step sister Natatsha (A.K.A Trash). While he faces hilarious problems at home he also faces another dilemma in his school life. The new kid, Sky, is a slim, pretty and irresistable girl that Simon cannot imaging no being with. But he already has a girlfriend, Delphine whose brother is as
April 7, 2012
“Prawns in Pants” and “Bats Buttocks.” It seems that Middle Schoolers now have their own set of superheroes to duel with Captain Underpants. Strong writes with similar scatological silliness, albeit somewhat more mentally and socially challenging – not that this is much of a feat given my choice of comparison.
There’s a similar sense of graphic goo to Strong’s cartoon panels as well. But by far most important, Punykid and Supersurfer are funnier than the Captain, both in cartoon and in their novelized real lives. And that is an accomplishment to admire.
There’s a similar sense of graphic goo to Strong’s cartoon panels as well. But by far most important, Punykid and Supersurfer are funnier than the Captain, both in cartoon and in their novelized real lives. And that is an accomplishment to admire.
September 2, 2010
This book was pretty fun, I enjoyed how wacky and seemingly random the comic pages were but actually made sense after reading the main character's accounts.
However I found the description a little misleading, since the story focuses more about the comics and the main character's relationship troubles (both familial and romantic) than about how he retains a lot of random information.
However I found the description a little misleading, since the story focuses more about the comics and the main character's relationship troubles (both familial and romantic) than about how he retains a lot of random information.
January 19, 2024
Simon is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives with his Dad, his new step-mum and her obnoxious daughter - his world is turned upside down by the arrival of an amazing new girl at school, but he can't dump his drippy girlfriend Delphine in case her Neanderthal brother beats him to a pulp... The only solution, obviously, is to palm half the kitchen equipment and make for the hills.
October 4, 2012
I'm kind of embarassed at how much I enjoyed a book filled with childish pictures and telling such a naive story. I don't regret a minute spent reading it though.
...Do people in Britain really talk like Stuff does?
...Do people in Britain really talk like Stuff does?
September 6, 2015
A graphic novel inside a written story, I LOVE IT!! I really liked the characters in this book. If you're into stories that explore the changes around you and have the way to express them in a different form, you have to give this book a read.
October 12, 2007
I'm not a huge fan of graphic novels, and I especially didn't like the style of the bits that were included. I just didn't connect to this one.
April 13, 2013
This was a wonderfully funny book full of snark and wit. I highly recommend it!
January 14, 2015
This is one of my all time favorte books. I love seeing the eyes of the world through the main chareters eys.
June 10, 2010
I love this book
August 9, 2017
A funny and witty book about a teen who has to face his problems.
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