Doing It, Melvin Burgess
Doing It, Melvin Burgess
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Doing It

Author: Melvin Burgess

Narrator: Jason Flemyng

Abridged: 3 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2004

Synopsis

Dino, Jon, and Ben have each got problems--a girlfriend who won't put out, a girlfriend who won't give up, and a predatory teacher . . . just for starters.

Award-winning author Melvin Burgess has written a daringly honest and often hilarious account of contemporary teenage life, and the ups and downs that surround DOING IT.

About The Author

Melvin Burgess has written several highly acclaimed books for young adults, including Smack, which won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Three of his other novels have been runners-up for the Carnegie Medal. Burgess lives in Manchester, England, with his wife and their children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara

Book from the mother's house, the saga continues.... I remember getting this book as a teenager, on the back of my enjoyment of Junk, and feeling really naughty reading it. It's smutty, and dirty and teenager-y and very...boyish. My naive 14 year old self didn't really like it, especially as I was ex......more

Goodreads review by Annie

It's not very often that a book from a boy perspective goes as deep and as far as this book does. And the thing is, it's not just a book about having sex where the perspective has been superficially switched from a girl to a boy. It is a dense book plotwise, having three different main characters to......more

Goodreads review by Megan

Early on in Doing It we learn that teenage boys are kinda gross and think about sex more than anything else. Then we learn that they actually have depth and feelings and stuff. (But a lot of the depth and feelings and stuff pretty much revovle around sex.) This is a cute book. Imagine Judy Blume for......more

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