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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Millions

Frank Cottrell Boyce is a name that i've never heard of before but i've heard that this book of him will be turned into a movie.
Damian is the younger of two brothers. The dark thread woven into this tale is Damian's grief at the loss of his mother, who used to work on the Clinique counter. Anthony, the older brother, is a real-estate expert at an early age, and Damian's mad about the saints. He knows everything about them, having logged on to a website called totallysaints.com. He uses their stories as a guide to life. Whenever he meets a saint, Damian asks if his mother is one of their number. He has built himself a hermitage down by the railway line. It's made from cardboard boxes. This is where he is when the bag full of money appears. The cash is part of an enormous robbery. Damian thinks it is a gift from God, and wants to help the poor with it. But his brother Anthony has other ideas. The money is in pounds sterling, and England is converting to the Euro in seventeen days, after which the money will be worthless. So the two boys have to get rid of 229,370 pounds in cash in seventeen days.
It is quite fun to read something so much about money, which is fun... The story has some really funny moments but there are some parts that are pretty unappropriated to read but if you don't the you wouldn't understand anything.


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