I wrote my first Top Five + Mix Tape for Insatiable Booksluts after re-reading this book last fall.What Really Matters is What You Like Not What You ARE LikeA mixtape for Rob, plus my own personal Top Five Breakup Songs.
I liked the movie, it made me laugh - but to be honest pretty much anything with John Cusack in it is fine with me. But what I wasn't prepared for was the fact that the movie was lifted, virtually word for word from the book.OK, sure the setting was changed, but hearing John Cusack in my head with ...
One thing you need to know about Rob is that he's kind of... lost. He doesn't know what to do with his life, although he thinks he does. And if he did know what he wanted, he doesn't have the strength to get up and do it. He just waits for something to happen, to magically change his life into what ...
Originally posted on my blog, Guiltless Reading.Life goes on ... to the track of a mix tape. The book in one sentence: A 30-something man reflects on life and love ... through mix tapes and his record collection.My thoughts: I did a Friday 56 about this book ages ago. And if you judge it by the q...
I must have forgotten the ending since I saw the film about ten years ago, because honestly I was sort of expecting a different one. Oh, well. I much preferred Rob while he was single, desperate, miserable and quite a loser and I'm almost positive people cannot be so introspective with their own liv...
High Fidelity is one of my Top 5 All-time favourite movies. (And not only because it's a Cusack movie).Strange then, that I didn't realise for a few years that it was based on a book, and embarassing that I didn't realise, 'til I picked it up, this year, that it was a British book. Shame on me.Rob ...
Rob Fleming feels like he's failed at life. It seems like the world agrees with him. His record store is barely making it, his mom pities him, his top five ex-girlfriends all replaced him with another guy, his girlfriend just moved in with another man, and their mutual friend Liz thinks he's an ar...
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