Millions

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Conflicts arise throughout their family as the burden becomes to much to bear and secrets are becoming harder to keep. I liked the theme of the story and I thought it told a very important lesson that everyone should learn, however I was indifferent about the book as a whole. As contrast to all of that filthy lucre, Damian is obsessed with the ideas of goodness and excellence.

Other than that, though, Millions was a good read, and I recommend it to people looking for a fairly challenging book. I probably wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone because I think that it’s just very boring and that there’s no real climax in the entire story. Heart-achingly funny, touching and brilliantly clever, Millions is a fantastic adventure about two boys, one miracle and a million choices. This was a really cute story about growing up, and learning about how great (and burdensome) money can be. But what would you do if a massive bag of cash dropped from the sky and you had only a few days to spend it before it became worthless?

This book reads like a mad cap comic adventure/mystery/coming of age tale but is also a study in childhood grief and as is usual for this author the father son relationship is central to the plot . Boyce does a nice job of balancing the serious elements of grief with bits of humor that add up to a compelling tale of coming-of-age and growing up. As an adult, I think I want to reread it so I can appreciate the simple adventure, because upon this (first ever) read I was wrapped up in Damian and in his r'ship with his father and brother and couldn't quite fully just enjoy the book, as it was so poignant. Seventeen days until Euros, seventeen days to use up more than two hundred and thirty thousand pounds.

There is also an interesting lesson in inflation in the school yard, not to mention several good examples of the corrupting influence of money. They’re scared to admit that Dorothy’s lasagna is better because they feel if they do they will lose their old mom. The boys encounter many problems throughout the story and when all the money is gone they both realize that no amount of money will amount to the family they have and love they share for each other.Through this novel The brothers are facing a newer, harder challenge everyday and as the saying goes "what goes up must come down" this is the perfect description of the Cunningham brothers journey, The money is giving them everything but it is also losing everything good they had especially when glass eye comes along.

The pair have big decisions to make, needing to reconcile their wildly different ideas about what to do with the cash. Millions doesn't give me any types of feelings; it's more of a retelling of a story that happened with someone else- like the person telling the story can't show the emotions of the characters because s/he wasn't there and therefore didn't experience it.

I think this was meant to be a feel-good family drama about the effects of money on individuals and society, but is just felt negative and wrong--I never felt that the taking of the money was right or justified in any way and to have every character attempt to justify it and take and spend it without any consequences was just something I couldn't get past. Millions is an interesting story about two young brothers who stumble upon a bag filled with thousands of pounds and must try and spend it before the currency is changed to the euro. Having worked with director Danny Boyle on Millions, Danny asked Frank to be part of the team creating the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. You guys were so fab and Dawn was such a lovely presence in the schools - I will absolutely be in touch next time I'm in your neck of the woods.