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High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
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Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old,... show more
Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon. His girlfriend has just left him. Can he really go on living in a poky flat surrounded by vinyl and CDs or should he get a real home, a real family and a real job? Perhaps most difficult of all, will he ever be able to stop thinking about life in terms of the All Time Top Five bands, books, films, songs - even now that he's been dumped again, the top five break-ups. Memorable, sad and very, very funny, this is the truest book you will ever read about the things that really matter.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140295566 (0140295569)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 245
Edition language: English
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KOMET
KOMET rated it
5.0 A LONDONER'S VIEW ON LIFE, LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS & MUSIC IN THE 1990s
So far, "HIGH FIDELITY" is one of the most entertaining, laugh out loud funny, and insightful novels I've read this year. Though it must be admitted that the main character, Rob Fleming - a quirky and rather self-centered man in his mid-30s, who is the owner of a record shop in the heart of 1990s Lo...
Hol
Hol rated it
3.0 High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
I’ve been picking fairly sedate books lately in the hope of not raising my adrenaline levels too high. Weird, right? If my blood pressure reaches 100 or above I may be in danger of being carted off in an ambulance. Just kidding. I’ve just been advised to keep it relaxed for a bit and apparently Nick...
Stories2358
Stories2358 rated it
4.0 Alta fedeltà
Blog Stories Review: http://storiesbooksandmovies.blogspot.it/2015/03/alta-fedelta-nick-hornby.htmlFinalmente posso dire di aver letto Alta Fedeltà. Dopo anni di corteggiamento, ho ceduto alla tentazione di questa lettura che, sotto ogni punto di vista, sembrava essere perfetta per me. Da qualche me...
writedrunkeditsober
writedrunkeditsober rated it
5.0 High Fidelity
I first read High Fidelity when I was sixteen and I immediately knew it was my favorite novel. Hornby might not be the most complex writer, but I firmly believe in the value of doing simple things well over difficult things poorly. The amazing thing about High Fidelity is that as far as the plot goe...
BUGGY
BUGGY rated it
3.0 Sadly I'm not one of the "cool kids"
Opening line: My desert -island, all time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:” This is one of those modern classics on everyone’s “to read” list and while it wasn’t my first Nick Hornby book it is the one that everyone talks about so of course I went in expecting to be awe...
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