I finished Boy Minus Girl this morning. The jacket description is a little misleading, but it was an...interesting book. It was advertised as a boy-likes-girl-but-can't-have-her story. In actuality, boy, Les, likes girl, Charity, but soon discovers that while Charity likes Les, she is a lesbian, so Les has no chance with her. But he and his friend Howard are able to get a lot of advise about girls from her. He also has to deal with a bully at school and prepare for the school's talent show where he is debuting as a magician, the Great Linguini. On top of all this, his Uncle Ray comes to visit. While Les looks up to and admires his uncle, he soon discovers what a creep he is after he sleeps with a married woman in town and is actually hiding out from his stripper-girlfriend who is now pregnant and looking for him. And Les only has one thing on his mind...(use your imagination about a 14-year old boy). The conclusion to the story is a little weak, but ties up most, but not all, loose ends.
This story is certainly not for the light-hearted. I'm waiting for the first objection to the content. It's too bad too, because the hidden moral of the story is that one should do the right thing, be oneself and be true to core values. I'm only recommending this 246 page novel (which reads very fast) by Richard Uhlig to those with a very open mind.
For me, it's on to Bitten by Robert F. Smith.
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