To see what your friends thought of this book, I would think it has to do with (1) nakedness and (2) the similarity between the sounds of "habeas corpus" and "Harbinson's" (the latter being a happy. I have been a Brian Jackson, a Rebecca Epstein, briefly an Alice Harbinson, sometimes a Spencer Lewis, never Tone as far as I believe(but then someone may have thought otherwise), a Patrick, a Lucy Chang and maybe even a weird as hell Chris(though I am Indian and my opinions on toilet paper are strictly private). If you think we've made a mistake, please contact Audible Customer Care at 1-888-283-5051. The book definitely holds up on it's own as an entertainment, but I was fascinated by the changes that were made to put this story on screen - and I do think that some of the changes actually improved the st. I felt the anxieties of teenagers, leaving to go to university was well portrayed and the issues of social class. 14,423 Ratings. A good book about coming of age for teens and adults, even if you didn't attend college, Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2016. But the humor behind it definitely made me smile... A lot! January 23rd 2007 The style is wry and self-aware with just enough pretentiousness to let the reader into the world of the university and Brian Jackson. ©2003 David Nicholls (P)2004 W F Howes Ltd. Starter for Ten started out to be the prose equivalent of a British John Hughes film. This book has some real laugh out loud moments. Great at showing the awkward transition into adulthood during university, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2018. About 2/3 of the way in I definitely was getting bored with the story line and started to do some skimming. The author has a clever way with words and definitely channels his adolescent protagonist. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Sorry, this title is no longer available. The movie was cute but the book is even better. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2019. The plot of the Starter for Ten (the name under which I bought this, I guess it's the movie title rather than the original title of Nicholls' novel) is 19 year old Brian Jackson, off to university, adventures ensuing. Sweet Sorrow: The Long-Awaited New Novel from the Best-Selling Author of One Day, Angels in My Hair: The True Story of a Modern-Day Irish Mystic, American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel, There's A Little Bit of Brian In All Of Us, Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2011. The one constant which has been present from the start is an underlying sweetness to his characters, even when they're behaving badly. But surely there's no reason why I should be embarrassed and ashamed about things that happened thirty seconds ago? Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2016. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Tell someone that you've got a drink problem, or an eating disorder, or your dad died when you were a kid even, and you can almost see their eyes light up with the sheer fascinating drama and pathos of it all, because you've got an issue, something for them to get involved in, to talk about and analyse and discuss and maybe even cure. And as obstacles impede their affair, Brian becomes more and more convinced that only overwhelming success on the quiz show will win her. Please try your request again later. Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2009. Maybe I was a little better at covering my tracks. The plot of the Starter for Ten (the name under which I bought this, I guess it's the movie title rather than the original title of Nicholls' novel) is 19 year old Brian Jackson, off to university, adventures ensuing. When we were young -a long long time ago- a friend of mine and me joked about the continuous crises: the first-year-at-uni crisis, the mid-degree crisis and of course, the last-degree-year crisis. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Sometimes he is so stuck on love and girls that he is oblivious to the rest of the world. I had high hopes for this book after reading One Day, but they turned out to be in vain. Throughout you get the ominous feeling things can only end badly for Brian. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. That's not an easy get, but he's so tone deaf that you forgot his brains pretty quickly. Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014. It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. One can always pick up airport reads about lawyers (Grisham) spies (Clancy) or scary medical stuff (Crichton) and then of course there is fare for the intellectual (Franzen).