How to Be Good
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780786541164 (0786541164)
Publish date: May 19th 2004
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Edition language: English
I don't really know how to feel about this book. It was an all-time favourite of one of my friends, who just kept talking about the book until I promised I would read it, so perhaps my expectations were just a bit to high. Especially when I'm told it's going to be funny... I've read that feelings ...
Sort of the same feeling that I got from 'A Long Way Down'. Great first half, then watering down a bit, floating between 3 and 4. I suppose it was less the case in this one, so I went for 4. As always with Nick Hornby the dialogue and characters are very lifelike and amusing and his observations spo...
Als ich den Klappentext zuerst las, dachte ich an einen Frauenroman, von einem Mann geschrieben, aber diese Geschichte ist wirklich "completely different" und sehr amüsant für eine Zynikerin wie mich.Die Ärztin Katie ist mit einem wütenden, unglücklichen, zynischen, rhetorisch sehr talentierten Misa...
Nick Horby does a great job depicting life and emotions through a realistic but comedic style. This book didn't disappoint me, it's as good as the rest of his works.
At the beginning I was sceptical when I've received this book by lend. I used to be a Nick Hornby fan, but, as it often happens to me, I had lost interest for him as a novelist as soon as he's became too popular. I know, I know I'm just a snob.But Hornby's favourite lists were everywhere I turn my ...