Rock Star, Superstar by Blake Nelson (TEEN BOOK)
Rock Star, Superstar is the newest book by Blake Nelson, most likely best known for his mid-90's book Girl. Like Girl, this book examines teenage life in the Pacific Northwest. In Rock Star, Superstar the book revolves around Pete McGrady who more than anything loves to play the bass. He plays the bass in his school's jazz band and he is also playing bass in a fledgling cover band. Soon Pete is recruited to be in an up and coming "alt-rock" band. Being in the band affects everything, relationships, family, school, and work.
An interesting book for anyone who has every wanted to be in a band. It does not paint an overly glamorous picture of band life, Pete gets screwed over by his bandmates a number of times. It also deals a lot with Pete and his new girlfriend. This book is aimed at teenagers so there is a moderate amount of sex (but Nelson is never very graphic when writing about it) and a large amount of drinking and smoking pot. He does a good job of writing about sex because he talks openly about the ambivalent feelings that are often connected to it when starting out- Should I do it? Am I doing it for the right reasons? Am I doing it right? When can I do it again? What does it all mean?
Age Level: 14 and up
Keywords: Music, Rock, Bands, Coming of Age, Relationships, Sex
Lesson Plans: Not really appropriate for a class setting.
An interesting book for anyone who has every wanted to be in a band. It does not paint an overly glamorous picture of band life, Pete gets screwed over by his bandmates a number of times. It also deals a lot with Pete and his new girlfriend. This book is aimed at teenagers so there is a moderate amount of sex (but Nelson is never very graphic when writing about it) and a large amount of drinking and smoking pot. He does a good job of writing about sex because he talks openly about the ambivalent feelings that are often connected to it when starting out- Should I do it? Am I doing it for the right reasons? Am I doing it right? When can I do it again? What does it all mean?
Age Level: 14 and up
Keywords: Music, Rock, Bands, Coming of Age, Relationships, Sex
Lesson Plans: Not really appropriate for a class setting.
7 Comments:
fuck you !you fucking suck
This book seems actually ok. To bad I hate to read.
Absolutely loved this book. Definately something a teenager into music should check out.
this book rocks!!!! i read along with almost every other book Blake has wrote and he is FANTASTIC!!!!!
This book is so fucking awesome! I just read it once and am re-reading it again! Never read this much so far!!<3 Is there a sequel???!
Fuck you who said this book sucked!!! Blake Nelson is the shit so shut the hell up! How about you actually read some of his books dumb ass!
You're a dumb ass cunt. Get a fuckin life kid.
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