Book Description
Danny Wallace has friends. He has a wife and goes to brunch, and his new house has a couch with throw pillows. But as he nears 30, he can't help wondering about his best childhood friends, whose names he finds in a long-forgotten address book. Where are they now-and where, really, is he?
Acting on an impulse we've all had at least once, he travels from London to Berlin, Tokyo, Australia, and California, risking rejection and ridicule to show up on his old pals' doorsteps. Memories of his 1980s childhood-from Michael Jackson to Ghostbusters-overwhelm him as he meets former buddies who have blossomed into rappers and ninjas, time-traveling pioneers, mediocre restaurant managers, and even Fijian royalty.
Danny's attempt to re-befriend them all gives remarkable new resonance to the age-old mantra, "friends forever!"
My thoughts
I wasn’t sure what I would expect when I picked up Danny Wallace’s “Friends Like These” but I was pleasantly surprised. I also wasn’t sure if I could relate since Danny was about to turn 30 when he had this desire to find long lost childhood friends. I’m a 40-something and that gap is larger. Turning 30 and getting a box delivered from his mom with stuff from his childhood (how cool is that?) and finding an old address book starts him on his quest to locate and update that book. He travels to various countries, calls all over the place and has a wife that he should be quite thankful for. Many of us have wondered what happened to that kid you used to play with in kindergarten or the guy you hung out with in high school, but Danny made it his goal to find out. Wallace’s writing is humorous and sentimental and made this a fine book to read.
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