Guys Read: Best of Friends: A Story from Guys Read: Funny Business
Written by Mac Barnett
Narrated by Bronson Pinchot
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for kids is concerned. Each book is a collection of original short stories, but these aren't your typical anthologies—each book is edgy, inventive, visual, and one-of-a-kind, featuring a different theme for guys to get excited about.
Funny Business is based around the theme of—what else—humor, and if you're familiar with Jon and Guys Read, you already know what you're in store for: ten hilarious stories from some of the funniest writers around. Before you're through, you'll meet a teenage mummy; a kid desperate to take a dip in the world's largest pool of chocolate milk; a homicidal turkey; parents who hand over their son's room to a biker; the only kid in his middle school who hasn't turned into a vampire, wizard, or superhero; and more. And the contributor list includes bestselling author, award winners, and fresh new talent alike: Mac Barnett, Eoin Colfer, Christopher Paul Curtis, Kate DiCamillo (writing with Jon Scieszka), Paul Feig, Jack Gantos, Jeff Kinney, David Lubar, Adam Rex, and David Yoo.
Guys Read is all about turning young readers into lifelong ones—and with this book, and each subsequent installment in the series, we aim to leave no guy unturned.
Mac Barnett
Mac Barnett is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of over 20 books for children, including <i>Extra Yarn</i> and <i>Sam and Dave Dig a Hole</i>, both winners of a Caldecott Honor and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. His picture books <i>Leo: A Ghost Story</i> and <i>The Skunk</i> were named two of the Ten Best Illustrated Books of 2015 by the <i>New York Times</i>. He lives in Oakland. You can visit him at www.macbarnett.com.
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Reviews for Guys Read
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When one couple's marriage ends, the results snowball through a small English town. Sophy, the couple's 16- year old, smart and sensitive daughter is particularly disoriented and feels abandoned by her father who leaves home. Fortunately, her unconventional, creative and wise grandmother Vi lives in town and helps provide space and sanity. Gus, her younger friend and his family are accommodating and supportive as well. I've always enjoyed Trollope's masterful storytelling about the intricacies of families, friends and relationships in general. The Best of Friends is another winner.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The storyline was interesting but the characters flat. I could not understand their motivation behind their actions and would have enjoyed a bit more development of at least one or two of them.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The main protagonist is sixteen-year-old Sophy. Her parents seem to spend most of their time arguing, and it’s become increasingly bitter...
The bulk of the book takes place in just a couple of months. Sophy is a likeable girl, although I never felt that I really got to know her. Joanna Trollope isn’t the greatest at characterisation; nevertheless the situations and descriptions of events managed to pull on my emotions quite strongly.
The writing is terse and well-paced, the conversations mostly believable; places and appearances are described with just enough sensory detail to make them memorable without so much as to become boring.
While there’s a sense in which this is a coming-of-age story for Sophy, it’s also classic women’s fiction of the kind that could be enjoyed by older teenage bookworms as well as adults. There’s some ‘strong’ language, but although plenty of bedroom scenes are mentioned, there are, thankfully, no details.
Three and a half stars would be fairer. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gina and Laurence had been childhood friends and were the best of friends as adults. They were never in love with each other, just the best of friends. Now, Gina was married to the worldly Fergus (who had changed his name from Leslie) and Laurence was married to Hilary. Both had children and seemingly idyllic lives.Then, Fergus told Gina that he wanted a divorce. She was shattered and turned to Laurence for understanding; but what Laurence did for Gina endangered his own happy family. I loved this story. I thought it was very engrossing and I give it an A+!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5gave me insight into children's reactions to divorce, and placed into words some of my own "feelings" that I had yet been unable to express...it made me sad
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oddly bleak and unfocussed, the story of two marriages, an older couple and the younger generation whose lives are all turned to chaos when one husband decides to leave one wife. Nicely written but it hops about from person to person and generation to generation - which might be what life is like however art demands something more. Not my favourite Joanna Trollope.