Drengen med guldbukserne - Max Lundgren

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Title: Drengen med guldbukserne (The Boy With the Golden Trousers) Author: Max Lundgren Genre: Childrens Rating: 5/10 # pages: 116 Date read: March, 2008

Summary: The Boy with the Golden Pans is Mats from Malmö, Sweden. To his great surprise he one day discovers that he can keep pulling out 10-kroner (~$2) bills out of his pocket. This ends up being a lot of money, and in great secrecy Mats and his father starts to send million-dollar donations to charities...

Review: It is always dangerous to reread books you loved as a child. Will they stand the test of time, or won't they? I loved this book while in primary school, so when I recently found it at the library, I thought I'd reread it. I only remembered the basic premise of it (boy discovers he can pull 10-kroner bills out of the pocket of his pants) and nothing else, and was somewhat disturbed by the ending. Had I remembered that, I probably wouldn't have bothered with the reread.

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[irinaauthor.livejournal.com]

Why? What's the ending? I'm super curious now.

[bogormen.livejournal.com]

Some people - we're not even told who, but lead to believe they're people who don't want such large amount of Swedish money to go to charities abroad - capture Mats, steals his pants, gives him a new pair and burns the old ones.

The end.

I know, I was all: "Buh?" as well.

[irinaauthor.livejournal.com]

That's a terrible ending! They burn his pants?

[bogormen.livejournal.com]

Yup, and that's the last paragraph. Some unknown persons burning his pants and Mats crying and yelling "I'll find some other golden pants. You'll see. It'll never end."

That's a word-for-word translation of the two last lines.