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Our Teacher Edition on Long Way Down can help. Long Way Down Characters Next. William (Will) Holloman. William (Will) Holloman. The 15-year-old protagonist and narrator of the novel—the story is told through poems in Will's voice. Will is sensitive, perceptive, and loves language,—but he also desperately wants to grow up.
Anyway, to cut a long story short,
Storyline In a follow-up to the documentary series 'Long Way Round', actors and best friends Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travel from John O'Groats, Scotland down to Cape Town, South Africa on motorcycles. They travel down through Europe and Africa, getting an up-close view of the local cultures. But A Long Way Down takes risks, and it does things that most authors are afraid to do, which is talk about suicide and it does it in such a smart way that it becomes a book that is actually against suicide in the long run. This book reminds me of something that Chuck Palahniuk would have written, only it is better written than that. But A Long Way Down takes risks, and it does things that most authors are afraid to do, which is talk about suicide and it does it in such a smart way that it becomes a book that is actually against suicide in the long run. This book reminds me of something that Chuck Palahniuk would have written, only it is better written than that. A long way down by Nick Hornby ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 7, 2005 Four suicidal depressives, meaning to do themselves in, meet on the same London rooftop—and form a pact—in an unpredictably comic fourth novel from Hornby.
I decided to kill myself.
That's the trouble with
suicides, I've learnt.
You can't cut the long story short,
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because it's the long story
that people are interested in.
Especially if you're me,
which, regrettably, I was
and still am to this day.
So, forgive me if you already
knew this, but I'm Martin Sharp,
the man who had everything.
One wife, two children, three dogs,
at least four People's Choice awards,
and five mornings a week on the most
successful breakfast show in Britain.
Huh, they were even
offering me Mondays off.
So far, so good.
I had reachedmiddle age
unscathed, with money in the bank.
Until I met SusieJenkins at a
launch for a new men's moisturiser.
- Happy New Year, mate.
- All I can say in my defence, Your Honour,
is that she looked 25 to me.
But she wasn't.
Cue, in chronological order,
tabloid frenzy, a short
prison sentence, divorce,
disgrace, demolition.
Doors closing.
New Year's Eve is supposed
to be a pause for breath,
a punctuation mark.
Well, I had come to a full stop.
Really.
Why wouldn't I want to throw myself
off the top of a tall building?
Oh! Oh!
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Hi.
Um, I'm not entirely sure
how to phrase this, but...
Are you going to be long?
- What?
- I wasn't sure whether to wait my turn, or...
I hadn't considered the wire. I'd
really like to borrow your ladder.
Maybe I should
just wait. I'll wait.
Are you just going to
stand there and watch?
No. No, of course. You'll be wanting
to do it on your own, I'd imagine.
You imagine right.
I'll go there.
All right.
I'll give you a shout
on the way down.
Right.
Oh, jeez!
I can't.
Maybe you should go first.
I would want to be on my own.
- Completely.
- Understood.
Twenty minutes, then
I want my spot back.
- Right.
- OK.
- Ooh!
- Oh!
Maureen.
Martin.
Are you from...
- Oh, I... I recognise your face.
- Oh, do you?
Were you married to
someone in a pop group?
No.
- Were you on TV?
- Maureen, perhaps this is not
the best time to talk about this.
- Out of my way, fuckers!
- No, stop, stop!
No! No!
- Maureen, a bit of help?
- Who the f*ck are you?
- What do you want me to do?
- Sit on her legs.
You're getting a thrill out of
this, aren't you, you pervert?
- Oh, my God.
- What?
You're Martin Sharp. You
are a pervert, officially!
That's it! Rise and Shine
with Martin and Penny!
Just let me go...
- No, just...
- Wait!
Hi.
Erm...
Any of you guys order a pizza?
Well, shall we do introductions?
I'm Jess.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Hi.
Um, I'm not entirely sure
how to phrase this, but...
Are you going to be long?
- What?
- I wasn't sure whether to wait my turn, or...
I hadn't considered the wire. I'd
really like to borrow your ladder.
Maybe I should
just wait. I'll wait.
Are you just going to
stand there and watch?
No. No, of course. You'll be wanting
to do it on your own, I'd imagine.
You imagine right.
I'll go there.
All right.
I'll give you a shout
on the way down.
Right.
Oh, jeez!
I can't.
Maybe you should go first.
I would want to be on my own.
- Completely.
- Understood.
Twenty minutes, then
I want my spot back.
- Right.
- OK.
- Ooh!
- Oh!
Maureen.
Martin.
Are you from...
- Oh, I... I recognise your face.
- Oh, do you?
Were you married to
someone in a pop group?
No.
- Were you on TV?
- Maureen, perhaps this is not
the best time to talk about this.
- Out of my way, fuckers!
- No, stop, stop!
No! No!
- Maureen, a bit of help?
- Who the f*ck are you?
- What do you want me to do?
- Sit on her legs.
You're getting a thrill out of
this, aren't you, you pervert?
- Oh, my God.
- What?
You're Martin Sharp. You
are a pervert, officially!
That's it! Rise and Shine
with Martin and Penny!
Just let me go...
- No, just...
- Wait!
Hi.
Erm...
Any of you guys order a pizza?
Well, shall we do introductions?
I'm Jess.
Everyone calls me Jess.
I... I'm Maureen.
- I'm, uh... I'm JJ.
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- I'm...
- Martin Sharp.
- Yes.
It's very exciting to have a
celebrity in our suicidal midst.
- This feels wrong.
- Mmm.
All right, well, we could just
do a 'one, two, three, jump!'
Whoa!
I wouldn't have minded if it had
been the proverbial cry for help,
but, believe me, you don't cart
a ladder up 15 flights of stairs
on a freezing cold New Year's
Eve unless you're serious.
Nice to meet you.
It was just another debacle.
Another cock-up.
I'd have believed you if you'd
told me half an hour before
that I'd end up on my car,
but not in it.
And I absolutely knew, with
every fibre of my being,
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that I wouldn't be seeing any of
those freaks and misfits again.
I didn't know what they
were doing up there.
And I didn't want to find
out, thank you very much.
I had no interest whatsoever.
Oh, f*ck.
Do I regret stopping
to pick her up?
Well, that really is along story.
- Want a lift?
- No, no.
The bus will be along
in 15 minutes.
Get in the car, Maureen.
