Easily one of the most under-rated books I've read. ( )

Thus far, my least favorite Michael Chabon. Which is not necessarily a bad review. Was it written with a screenplay in mind, though? ( )

My favorite of his books, even though I read it after the movie came out and then couldn't help but picture Michael Douglas and Katie Holmes. Otherwise, love. ( )

I really wanted to dislike Wonder Boys. I even tried to dislike it. I mean, here it was a book about writers (barf) by Michael Chabon (barf) who kind of gives me the willies (I think it’s the hair). Despite all that, Wonder Boys still crawled into my heart.

So we’ve got pot-smoking, wife-cheating, never-ending-novel writing Grady Tripp and the weekend from hell. His editor comes into town for writerpalooza or something and brings along a drag queen. Grady’s wife has also chosen that day to leave him and Grady’s mistress, the chancellor of the university he teaches at, also decides to tell him she’s pregnant. Oh and Grady also managed to thwart the suicide of his gifted-oddball student James Leer who steals a jacket worn by Marilyn Monroe. Also, the chancellor’s dog is killed.

Full Review: http://www.minnesotareads.com/2009/02... ( )

I was expecting something a little better than this. Maybe I need to be a man to understand this book better, but I couldn't figure Grady out. He's pretty great at abandoning the women in his life, he smokes too much pot, and he can't seem to finish his novel. He's not a bad man. He's just not very likeable due to his actions.

I thought the book had a few funny moments where I actually laughed out loud, but Grady was too much of a mess and it was a huge distraction. Does he get his act together at the end of the book? It's hard to tell, really.

Michael Chabon's beautiful writing is as always a pleasure to read. I just didn't care for his main character. ( )