If the Gossip Girls series is Sex in the City for girls, Markus Zukic’s Getting the Girl is High Fidelity for young dudes. (Although I’m never not sure if any dudes read High Fidelity, or if it’s just for chicks who wan to pretend that dudes have feelings and don’t just think about sports or how damn loquacious they are, a la David Foster Wallace. Although I guess if Fever Pitch were going to stand, all Nick Hornby does think about is sports.)
Cameron is the little brother of Rube, the most charismatic womanizer on the block, Sarah, who seems like a drunk slut, and Steve, the most successful guy around, and generally feels like a big fat nothing. His brother has Octavia, one in a long line of chicks he picks up, only to dump them a month later when he gets bored. Meanwhile Cam fantasizes about losing himself to a girl, losing himself inside her (both figuratively and literally) yet has never touched a girl.
It’s a typical coming of age story, where Cam realizes he is someone individually of value, and so is his sister, while maybe his two brothers have less to offer than he originally thought. And true to type, he gets the girl—without “getting” her—loses the girl, then gets her back. It’s all pretty sweet.
Do boys read this? Do boys have feelings?
All the reviews on Amazon are by chicks except one, which sounds like it's by a teacher.
Hmm.
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