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Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny ability to screw up in the very ways that tick off his father the most.
When Liam finally kicked out of the house, his father's brother takes him in. What could a teenage chick magnet possibly have in common with his gay, glam rocker, DJ uncle who lives in a trailer in upstate New York? A lot more than you'd think. And when Liam attempts to make himself over as a nerd in a desperate attempt to impress his father, it's his "aunt" Pete and the guys in his band who convince Liam there's much more to him than his father will ever see.
- Sales Rank: #821220 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-05-03
- Released on: 2010-05-03
- Format: Kindle eBook
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Some gut-wrenching subject matter masked with humor -
By J.L. McHale
Liam Geller is the son of a successful former model and an uptight CEO. The pressure placed on him to succeed from a very young age, combined with the layers of emotional abuse suffered from the words of his father, results in causing him to believe that he's not good at anything except "screwing up". When a final mistake at home causes his father to kick him out he goes to live with his "Aunt" Pete, a man who's been estranged from his family for years due to his refusal to conform to what had been expected of him.
The story goes on to share Liam's struggle of coming to terms with the fact that his parents aren't perfect and he isn't broken, as they've lead him to believe he is. The humor in this story is all a mask of much deeper issues. It's a rewarding read because of the beautifully constructed main characters. But, there will also be points when you'd like to thorw it across the room because of the anger that the other, minor characters, instill in you as a reader.
K.L. Going does a fantastic job of making you feel like you could be a watcher in this smalltown of Pineville, experiencing the ups and downs of Liam and his uncle as a next-door neighbor really would.
The one thing I would state against this book (and the reason I didn't give it the full 5 stars) is that it's not for middle-schoolers. Sure, there may be some kids mature enough to handle the subject matter at that age, but I feel that the majority of 12-year-olds out there would not be able to grasp the dynamics of this story.
These are hard subjects to handle, even for a high-schooler. But I would definitely advise that the sexual innuendo, language and subtle detailing of emotional abuse would be much better received by a slightly older audience than what the cover of the book recommends.
Other than that, A+.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
By TeensReadToo
You can't please everybody. I knew that before reading KING OF THE SCREWUPS by K.L Going. Ms.Going, however, is going to please a lot of people with her newest book. I have read her other books and she just has a way of creating an engaging ensemble of characters in each book you read.
I like Liam Geller, the protagonist in this story. He is Mr Popular. You know the type - very good looking, knows how to dress, has his way with the ladies, excels at sports. He is just an average student, though, and this disappoints his father to no end. His father is a CEO of this prestigious company and a member of Mensa, so you can imagine what an embarrassment it must be for him that his son does not take after him. Liam actually takes after his mom, a former runway model. He has a great eye for fashion and this does not sit well with dear old dad. His father absolutely believes that intelligence and discipline is what will get him far in life. Popularity and likeableness in high school will not help in the real world. I beg to differ on that point....
I do not like Allan Geller. Personally, I think he is a horse's ass. The pressure he puts on his son is ridiculous. Working in the school system, I see a lot of fathers like that. Their kids are generally good kids, have potential, but just feel like losers because they are buried under such criticism and feel no love.
This definitely can be considered a coming-of-age story. Liam, throughout this book, discovers who he is and how to make it work. Going seamlessly combines much needed comic moments with some heartbreaking ones. I think the intention of this book was to show that it is okay to not be perfect, but what really came out is how damaging a parent's high and sometimes unrealistic expectations can be on their child.
Now, I am not saying Liam is perfect - he does screw up and does some things that may make parents cringe, but he is not an utter failure at everything. I don't think it was right to get drunk and pretty much have sex on his dad's desk. He was doing what teenagers do, but this last episode was the one that broke the camel's back. This screwup gets him kicked out with a slim chance of ever returning. His father has had enough of him and wants him out of the house.
He has made arrangements for Liam to live with his grandparents, but because they don't care for him too much, Liam makes alternative arrangements to live with his Aunt Pete, which angers his father even more. You see, aunt Pete is a gay glam rock DJ living in a small trailer, not exactly the role model for discipline that his father wants for Liam. It turns out though that "Aunt" Pete and his colorful assortment of friends are better role models for Liam than his dad will ever be by a country mile.
And so begins Liam's new life. Here in Pineville, NY, where nobody knows him, he can reinvent himself. Here he could be a nerd, focus on academics like his father wants, and just become someone that his father is proud of. Once his father sees how much he has changed, he will surely take him back.
The thing is, no matter how hard he tries to be unpopular, people like him anyway. Well, most people like him. The only one that he wants admiration from is a girl that can't stand him - Darleen, the girl next door.
I know as I got further and further into the writing of THE KING OF THE SCREWUPS that I wanted Liam to succeed. I needed Liam to succeed. But Darleen is right when she tells Liam that you can't create love - you have to take it where it happens.....
Reviewed by: coollibrarianchick
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Breezy, entertaining, but overlong, and mildly generic YA fiction
By Mike
More like 3 1/2 if that was an option.
The plot of "King of the Screwups" starts off by borrowing a page from the Salinger playbook - except this time Liam is kicked out of his house by his disappointed software developer father who is disappointed that he wants to be a model (like his mother) and moves in with his uncle "Aunt Pete" who lives in a trailer park. Liam screws up constantly, whether it's at the beginning of the book when his parents walk in on him having sex in their house, when he writes the word "the" in a class taught by his uncle's boyfriend. Then Liam has an epiphany.
Unlike every other book where the shy kid moves to a new school to become popular, Liam tries to be more of a nerd (which is a welcome twist for the genre), like his software developer father. Comic mishaps ensue including getting arrested by an altogether familiar police officer after attempting to spice up a party. Yadda yadda, be yourself. That kind of thing. Then there is a climactic and extremely predictable showdown in the principal's office between Liam's uncle and his father.
It's not as bad as it sounds though even if it isn't particularly original. Most of the characters are flat. Liam's father has about as much depth as a sheet of tracing paper and serves as a vaudevillesque antagonist who yells at his saintly wife and tries to sign up Liam for the military. Aunt Pete's friends often serve as plot devices. Yet, Liam is a surprisingly likable protagonist and Aunt Pete is one of the better written gay characters in YA lit.
Some of the dialogue is snarky and very funny, too. After the aforementioned police incident, Liam is confronted and says he needed to relax, then Aunt Pete responds, "from all the sleeping and watching television you do?"
It's fairly funny at times (and I think the intended audience might find it very funny), and the friction Liam experiences with his parents is something some teens with business-oriented parents can relate to. Despite the fact Liam does a million stupid things, comic mishaps wreak cosmic justice on him every time and eventually he learns valuable moral lessons from his uncle, so I don't think the book has any character issues, either.
Here's where the major problem comes in - I'm a tad mixed on this book because as a teacher, I can see it's borderline unteachable, though it would be a welcome addition to class libraries (especially since it deals with homosexuality in a tasteful way), but I can also see that many adolescent caucasian girls and a minority of males would probably enjoy it even if it's not a particularly great book. Here are some of the reasons why.
While I think it'd be fine for a classroom library and deals pretty honestly with middle and lower middle class gay culture, and I think white middle class teenage girls would love it, it's not really particularly teachable given the sexual content, length of the book (310 pages!) and lack of consistent literary devices besides flashbacks and stream-of-consciousness narration (which I think is a literary technique better taught vis-a-vis the much shorter and better-written Catcher in the Rye). Teaching Catcher is hard in a diverse setting. Teaching this (which has no recognizably African-American characters and a male protagonist that wants to be a supermodel) would get me tarred and feathered.
Given it's a YA book by one of the major children's book publishers, lesson planning is normally thats something that's important. No lesson plan guides on the author or publisher's website (though I can see why). It's written on a 4th or 5th grade level, which is good if you have low-proficiency students, but I doubt low proficiency students will be clamoring to read a 300+ page book. I would've liked to have seen slightly more advanced vocabulary being used in a book of this length.
Also, in order to characterize Liam, Going inserts overly lengthy decriptions of clothing in his first person narration, which grows tiresome - especially considering how long the book already is. I would expect outright revolt from the boys. In short, not a bad book for adolescent girls and a few fashion-oriented boys (I think they'll like it), but a terrible book to teach.
Also, taken in comparison to books like "The Catcher in the Rye" and Chbosky's "Confessions of a Wallflower" (which is a great book to teach epistolary narrative), this book is about 100 pages too long, and suffers from a lack of teaching materials (I checked the publisher page, most YA books come out with lesson planning guides, this didn't).
If you're a teen and this book sounds interesting, I'd read "Catcher in the Rye" or "Confessions of a Wallflower" first, but pick this up if you'e already read those, you'll like it. If you're a teacher, a definite "yes" for the classroom library. A definite "no" to teaching.
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