Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going

Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
One hot summer day in the New York subways Troy Billings, about to commit suicide, is saved by, lower east side's own semi-homeless guitar genius, Curt MacCrae. Instantly Troy's life is changed forever. He soon becomes a drummer for Curt and is hanging' out with many people that he normally wouldn't. Throughout the book you read about his life before Curt. Troy dreams of being a great drummer but when he gets his chance he doesn't know what to do and throws up on it. Literally.

The characters in this book are wonderful and respond to situations in ways you would expect them to do but not so easy to guess that I knew that they were going to do all the time. The theme revolves around drug addiction throughout the book. One moment in life you could be at the top of your game and the next you be throwing up right on top of all of your achievements that is an important message I got from this book.

The plot of this book starts out and you think "Oh you poor fat kid" or "Stupid fatty." As the plot thickens you learn the lessons of punk rock such as "We're all just stuffing our faces, no matter what we look like, and people need to figure that out." (148) So by this I thought wow how true.

Soon Troy "Big T" and Troy’s father are making decisions for Curt and their band Rage/Tectonic. This may start out as a sappy story about some suicidal, 300 lbs. fat kid but it soon turns into a novel about life, punk rock, food and drugs.

This book is so awesome that I read it three times in the time I was writing this report.
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