
Winger
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Narrated by:
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Mark Boyett
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By:
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Andrew Smith
A teen at boarding school grapples with life, love, and rugby in a heartbreakingly funny novel.
Ryan Dean West is a 14-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy.
With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart.
Filled with hand-drawn infographics and illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this realistic depiction of a teen’s experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking.
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I can’t talk about the best parts of this listen
"This is a tough review to write because even mentioning its strengths will ruin the listening experience for those that haven’t had the pleasure. Here’s what I can say: For my money, Andrew Smith writes teen boys better than any living author—and the main character, Winger, may be his best boy yet. Winger’s struggles with sexuality, empathy, anger, and male friendship resonated with me on every level, and every single person I’ve recommended the book to later told me they loved it. (You’re welcome, too.)"
—Sean T., Audible Editor
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must read
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Loved it!
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I enjoyed being in Ryan Dean's head while he worked through his Coming of Age story. Bullying, Man Codes, being apart of a Team and all the boy shenanigans they can come up with. The desire to kiss available lips warring with trying to escape the "friendship" zone with the girl he loves. Care packages with condoms and a "Your First Time" pamphlet from your loving mother.
Ryan Dean is smart, funny with a sensitive side. He unapologetically wears Pokemon underwear. He embraces the "Wild Boy" persona and goes for it, even when fear and uncertainty creep in.
SMITH's words and MARK BOYETT's narration are DY-NO-MITE! MARK captures the young, unsure, geeky Ryan Dean that is a tad unpredictable with throw-up of the month and mind. None of the oddness, wildness, passion or bravado escape his range to express all that WINGER has going on between the covers. He perfectly pegs all the screwballs and neanderthals in the supporting cast of characters. His females are feminine with a little fire. MARK's pacing and emotion create a movie in your mind. He had me there in the moment right along Ryan Dean. I felt like I was in the car with Screaming Ned, shrieking, cussing and losing my shit too.
There will be more SMITH and BOYETT in my future. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this audiobook.
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Amazing book!
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An emotional and witty coming of age story
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What made the experience of listening to Winger the most enjoyable?
Winger was just really darn funny! I don't know if it needed quite as much swearing, but hey, the narrator is a 14 year-old boy, and we all know how gross and perverted they can be on the inside, at least Ryan Dean doesn't show it on the outside very often. Yes, this story has some swearing and crude humor, but it felt quite realistic to me and the book had me laughing out loud on more than one or two (or three) occasions. Listening to the book means that you miss out on the cartoons, charts, etc. that pepper the book, but the narrator does read them, and mentions that it is a drawing, so it really doesn't pull you out of the story that much. Honestly, if you don't mind crude humor and reading anything from a 14 year-old boy's perspective, then you will love this book. I thought the secondary characters, especially the male ones, were well done and added a lot to the story - I especially like Joey and Seanie as characters. The girls were somewhat unfathomable, but from a 14 year-old guy's mind, that is true to life also. It did kind of make me picture Ryan Dean as unbearably cute, since the junior girls all seemed to be crazy for him, but he doesn't see himself that way, so who knows? From what he says and the feelings that he expresses, I know that he is a really good guy deep inside.Who was your favorite character and why?
Of course, Ryan Dean! Even though he constantly calls himself a "loser", by the time you get into the book, you realize he is so, so not, in any way, a loser. He is smart, funny, ready to stand up for his friends, and although he swears on the inside, he says he doesn't out loud, and you believe that, because he really seems like a good guy. Sure he is immature, and thinks about sex constantly, but that's part of his struggle, being a 14 year-old junior in high school.Which character – as performed by Mark Boyett – was your favorite?
He performed all the characters well, again, Ryan Dean was the best. It seemed like he kept trying on and off to give Joey a New York-ish accent. It wasn't out of the question that he would have one, even though the school was in Oregon, Ryan Dean was from Boston, so Joey might very well have had an accent (although I don't think it ever said in the book that he did).If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
a hilarious rollercoaster rideAny additional comments?
This book will make you laugh and cry. Don't miss it!Hilariously funny with great narration!
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The voice of the protagonist is clever, witty and hilarious. It quintessentially captures the voice of any boy at the physically and emotionally disorienting and pivotal age of 14.
I personally identified with the avoidance of verbal profanity while it so repetitiously f-bombs his personal thoughts, or how the endless description of every girl being hot, because 14 year old boys gay or straight are still struggling to elaborate on these new and overwhelmingly powerful feelings of sexual attraction. So hot pretty much describes it all.
Any mother or father who has raised a rather bright boy through their 14th year, or any guy gay or straight will love the story, its infatuations, friendships and both the funny and the messed up sh—-, that happens in high school and jr. high.
I cannot recommend this story enough.
Amazing narrative voice
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