Bühre's advice to parents doesn't inspire confidence: "Never enter the room of a teenage boy," he says. Despite the long hours into the night he spends playing it, he looks disappointingly healthy and seems to have plenty of friends.īuhre is here to answer questions about all the unpleasant stuff that adults worry the internet is doing to their children, particularly to their sons. Call of Duty is one of his favourite games. "People think the internet has turned 15-year-old boys into pasty-faced loners who want to go on a shooting rampage in their nearest primary school because they've been playing too much Call of Duty," Bühre complains.
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With all the hoo-ha, I had hoped to find something a bit more shocking or revealing in Bühre's room than the clothes, three Lord of the Rings posters, a bookcase full of comics, a neat(ish) pile of half-finished history homework and a Star Trek Lego model that he made when he was 12 but, for sentimental reasons, can't bring himself to dismantle.
It's "an insight into the world of an unfathomable creature", cheers a mother in one online review. Parents who've read the book rave about it. His insider account of what all 15-year-old boys "are thinking but not telling you" still now bobs about in the bestseller lists in his native Germany (it was published in Australia earlier this year). Two years ago, when Bühre was 15, he wrote a book whose astonishing sales suggested he had become a spokesboy for a generation of teenagers: Teens: What We're Really Thinking (When We're Not Saying Anything). Just don’t go in there.” Credit:Tom Jackson/The Times/News Syndication “Never enter the room of a teenage boy,” he says. Paul Buhre, now 17, in his bedroom in his Berlin home.