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Stupid Boy
Teenage boy growing up in the Midwest learns about relationships, sex and sports. Join this 'stupid boy' as the girls in his life guide him through the highs and lows as he tries to navigate freshman year of high school.
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1071 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2014
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September 23, 2016I really love the character development, I am partial to coming of age stories though. I love it and I am looking forward to reading the sequels..
August 30, 2020
It's funny someone said "Trashy, with a little too much sex" I suppose that's a minimalist synopsis but unfortunately does absolutely nothing to convey the actual depth of the characters or the overriding arch relative to the themes used or the authors ability to create a unique sense of drama particularly in the various sports scenes depicted.
Whether its American Football, Baseball or the numerous action sequences the author creates a genuine sense of both realism and tension throughout which is both enthralling, enjoyable and again amazingly consistent throughout the series.
And for the barely literate naysayer who called the novel/novels trashy seeing as you can barely string a legible sentence together let alone any type of compelling argument I think I'll stick with the consensus describing these stories as being "highly enjoyable and truly addictive".
Whether its American Football, Baseball or the numerous action sequences the author creates a genuine sense of both realism and tension throughout which is both enthralling, enjoyable and again amazingly consistent throughout the series.
And for the barely literate naysayer who called the novel/novels trashy seeing as you can barely string a legible sentence together let alone any type of compelling argument I think I'll stick with the consensus describing these stories as being "highly enjoyable and truly addictive".
November 16, 2017
Incredible story, he can't write them fast enough.
September 29, 2023
This review doesn’t just pertain to Book 1 but the first third of the series. I kept reading because I was enjoying laughing AT the author and how bad the story was. This series is if you set a teenage boy’s id loose to express its ultimate fantasy. The MC is a stud athlete football QB (because he spent 1 summer on a farm), and then turns into a model / actor / movie star. Everything comes easy for him without any work (as someone who knows a LOT about football, I almost locked my eyes in the back of my head rolling them so often … and all the overused cliches with no understanding of the game. After the 5th time the MC/QB entered “the zone” I threw my phone across the room). The author also wants the MC to have tons of sex with all kinds of different girls, but also wants to keep him as a “good guy,” / “true hero” type. This means he has to come up with increasingly bizarre reasons for the women who fall instantly in love with him to spoil/ruin the relationship. His antagonists must also be evil or awful people without any justification. And many of the MC’s actions themselves defy reason. For example, the 1st time on a photo shoot as a new model he didn’t have sex right away with the girl model he was just introduced to because he wanted to show he was professional and thought he was being tested. But at the first break when they were changing outfits, he knew he had passed the test and had sex with her in the dressing room, and his passing the test was proven as none of the adults made any comments despite their clearly hearing them having sex. Like WTF?!?
But I could get past most of this and turn my suspension of disbelief to the max setting to try and enjoy a ridiculous but juvenile sex lark, if it wasn’t for the writing being so lazy. The author is incapable of going back and editing what he’s already written. His style is to show every minute of every day of the MC’s life. But when he wants to show how caring the MC is by planning a surprise and perfect present for a girl he likes, it just magically appears. He’ll say the MC “planned” the event and went shopping for the present, but when?!? The reader just literally read every minute of the MC’s prior 2 weeks and he never did any of this. Could the author have gone back a few chapters and inserted a paragraph about planning the event and going shopping? Of course. But he didn’t. Because that would be too much work. Another example is when he orders room service. You hear him place the order. But when the order arrives, he throws in that he also ordered dessert and champagne, etc. All he had to do was find the spot in his already written text and insert those extra things. But again, no. Instead of his editing his own work, the reader is supposed to accept that the author MEANT to do that but didn’t have time? I actually felt insulted as a reader each time this happened. And it happens ALL THE TIME.
I finally got to a point where the story became too absurd and the writing too bad for me to continue. The rubbernecking at the dumpster fire just became more sad than entertaining.
But I could get past most of this and turn my suspension of disbelief to the max setting to try and enjoy a ridiculous but juvenile sex lark, if it wasn’t for the writing being so lazy. The author is incapable of going back and editing what he’s already written. His style is to show every minute of every day of the MC’s life. But when he wants to show how caring the MC is by planning a surprise and perfect present for a girl he likes, it just magically appears. He’ll say the MC “planned” the event and went shopping for the present, but when?!? The reader just literally read every minute of the MC’s prior 2 weeks and he never did any of this. Could the author have gone back a few chapters and inserted a paragraph about planning the event and going shopping? Of course. But he didn’t. Because that would be too much work. Another example is when he orders room service. You hear him place the order. But when the order arrives, he throws in that he also ordered dessert and champagne, etc. All he had to do was find the spot in his already written text and insert those extra things. But again, no. Instead of his editing his own work, the reader is supposed to accept that the author MEANT to do that but didn’t have time? I actually felt insulted as a reader each time this happened. And it happens ALL THE TIME.
I finally got to a point where the story became too absurd and the writing too bad for me to continue. The rubbernecking at the dumpster fire just became more sad than entertaining.
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August 17, 2021
An enjoyable read, except for the editing.
January 19, 2015
Trashy with a bit too much sex for my taste but entertaining coming of age story.
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