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Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This is primarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between two worlds again—only this time he's 239,000 miles from home.
Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Millions and Framed, brings us a funny and touching story of the many ways in which grown-upness is truly wasted on grown-ups.
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Posted December 25, 2011
I have read a few of his books, but Cosmic , by far was the best. A little too easy offa read for my age (12) but it was very easy to relate to. Im not a freakishly tall boy, nor do I live in England but this book was AH- MAZING!
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Posted July 16, 2008
Frank Cottrell Boyce's new book Cosmic can be appreciated on many different levels, which means both children and adults will enjoy reading it. Twelve-year-old Liam is constantly being treated as though he's much older, simply because he's tall and mature-looking for his age. Boyce sprinkles in many keen life insights beginning on the very first page when Liam says, ¿everyone lies about their age. Adults pretend to be younger. Teenagers pretend to be older. Children wish they were grown-ups. Grown-ups wish they were children.¿ When Liam pretends to be a dad with a daughter who is actually his classmate just so he can win a contest, he finds himself off on an adventure he could have never imagined. He keeps his cool, learning how to be ¿dadly¿ by watching other dads and drawing upon lessons he learned playing World of Warcraft. Liam's innocent observations on human behavior are very funny and perceptive, and you'll keep turning the pages to see where they lead to next. At it's heart, Cosmic is a love story about dads¿what it means to be one as well as what it means to have one. Highly recommended.
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Posted January 28, 2012
Is flippen awsomeness rat a five and put a agree if you do
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Posted February 1, 2012
Im only elevwn and rrad bigger books than this but it was a realy good book. But now im wondering why he would do that if your wonding wat im talking about then you will just have to purchase the book and find out
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Posted October 14, 2011
This book is about a 12 year old boy who pretends to be a 30 year old man.One day his mom and dad send him off to Little Stars Drama Acting Class, he meets Florida Kirbyftg
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Posted January 31, 2011
Liam is a twelve year old old kid who pretends to be an adult. He looks and acts like and adult. But his spaaceship. roles out of orbit. LIam is trapped in a space ship. Through out the whole book he is talking into a recorder. It talkes about when he was a kid pretending to be an adult. He even pretens he has a daughter,and he test drives a car. It starts out he is on a ride called cosmic. It is said to have changed every wgo goes on it.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Liam Digby is not your average 12 year old; he looks like an adult and is taller than any of his peers. His Dad tries really hard to understand him but Liam remains an enigma, a young guy who eats, sleeps, and drinks online video gaming programs, one in particular which even he is unaware is training him for something profoundly BIG!
Liam pretends to be his Dad and applies for an unbelievable opportunity, a contest for greatest Dads which will be an amazing adventure. As Liam's a daredevil of a sort, he figures he can handle this adult posing. Having dared to ride multiple times in a G-gravity roller coaster and experimented somewhat with his father's Porsche, what's next?
Much to his surprise, Liam wins the prize and takes, as his daughter, a friend, Florida. Here begins a bigger contest in which one adult from the other three winners will get to go to outer space with all the children. But these are not ordinary children by any means and Liam's "Dad" skills are hilariously not exactly up to par at first!
Cosmic is a tale about the wisdom of fathers and a higher purpose behind all those addictive video games that just might really save a bunch of very exclusive lives. It's not soppy, and it's downright funny in so many places. This is a very cool story that will please not only young adult but also adult readers. Behind the fun and adventure are some solid, scientific, intelligent facts presented in a fascinating way.
Very nicely done, Frank Cottrell Boyce!!!
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Posted February 4, 2010
I am 12 and i read this 311 page book in 3 days 2 hours each day. Very funny good for kids with interest in space like me.
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Overview
Liam has always felt a bit like he's stuck between two worlds. This is primarily because he's a twelve-year-old kid who looks like he's about thirty. Sometimes it's not so bad, like when his new principal mistakes him for a teacher on the first day of school or when he convinces a car dealer to let him take a Porsche out on a test drive. But mostly it's just frustrating, being a kid trapped in an adult world. And so he decides to flip things around. Liam cons his way onto the first spaceship to take civilians into space, a special flight for a group of kids and an adult chaperone, and he is going as the adult chaperone. It's not long before Liam, along with his friends, is stuck between ...