The story started off with the main characters all choose to end their lives on the same night, on the same roof. Here is looking at life at the point that you wanted to end it. While I respect people deciding to off themselves. It is the writer's wish to save these characters by inventing stu...
I really liked the idea of this book - four very different people meet on a roof top where they've all gone to commit suicide, end up talking to each other, and forming a group. The book follows what happens next - do they all make it or do one or more of them return to the roof to finish what they...
Long Way Down is an odd book, but as is typical of Hornby's work, it's engrossing and brilliantly written. It begins on the roof of a building, where four people - intent on committing suicide by throwing themselves off - have run into each other. Rather than jump (which would make for a short novel...
Four people meet on the top of a notorious building for suicides and convince each other that really living is a better bet. I've read other Nick Hornby's and enjoyed them this was readable but not spectacular and really I didn't care at the end what happened to anyone other than Margaret. I reall...
The second book in a row I read of Hornby's work, and the second one in order of liking. I liked his High Fidelity work some more, thus the 5 star rating on that one and the 4 star on this one. The writing is beautiful. I really dig his style. I find him to be a nice blend between a few other author...
In A Long Way Down, we are introduced to four people, strangers to each other, who meet on New Year's Eve on the roof of a tall building which is notorious for the purupose they are all there for: to jump to their deaths. Jess, a rebellious teenager, was absolutely insufferable. The world would b...
Maureen, Martin, Jess and JJ have only one thing in common - their intent to jump off the Toppers Building on New Years Eve. Instead they end up looking for Jess's ex, forming a loose friendship and making an agreement to wait another six weeks to see if they can change their lives.I am not really ...
I feel this book didn't deliver as much as I had hoped. Admittedly, my hopes are always high for Hornby. I really liked the first 150-200 pages but as I was waiting for Hornby's usual insight, I was left sort of empty handed. Well maybe not empty handed. Let's say only one hand was filled. Some char...
2 1/2*About a group (4) of strangers who meet on New Year's Eve on a London rooftop. They've gone up, individually, to commit suicide. This is the story of what happens after they meet that night and how they go on living.I liked the different viewpoints. That said, I didn't like the characters very...
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