"Eric's legs may be skinny, but can they move! For one week of the year after his win at the athletics carnival, he's a hero; but for the other fifty one, he's a loser.
People at Pendle Hill High drift into his life - and they drift out again. Well, it must be his fault, right? There must be something wrong with him: take the place he lives, or his family, or the way he looks.
Eric's just the guy they call 'Spaghetti legs' and he wants to be different. Special. He wants to make a name for himself."
305 pg, paperback, 0091827477

On the front page of this website, I was comparing John Larkin to Douglas Adams, and I said Larkin was very much like Adams, minus all the stuff about paranoid androids and time travels and yadda yadda... well, i thought i was right, but i realised a lot of John's books do deal with the 'weird', for example, deja vu, ghost byte, cyber payne... but this book, spaghetti legs, doesn't.
this is the book to get 'young adults' (teenage scruffs) reading, guys especially. it's about image, best mates, bullies, mothers being seriously misguided as to the location of hips, and robert smith haircuts. it's 'normal'... but unlike your own normal life it's definitely not boring. fantastic stuff, people :)

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