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Juliet, Naked - Community Reviews back

by Nick Hornby
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Ex libris de librum vermis
Ex libris de librum vermis rated it 10 years ago
This book has some of that old Hornby vibe (High Fidelity, About a Boy) but still suffers from the lack of inspiration and attempt to be moralizing.It had the potential to be great - nice plot, promising characters, Hornby's take on music - yet failed to reach it, unfortunately. Still, there are som...
XOX
XOX rated it 11 years ago
Well, it is about a couple. The guy is obsessed with a singer called Tucker. The story make you think about several things.1. What is it about relationship, that is more like habit than love. These two act like everyday normal boring couple. Yet there seems to be problem underneath it all.2. What a ...
The Boat Was My Friend
The Boat Was My Friend rated it 11 years ago
I didn’t know, not right from the start anyway, that Juliet, Naked would be about impossible / “can't live with or without” relationships in the context of a perpetual teenage mentality, where your favourite songwriter’s preferred.. I don’t know.. ice cream flavour matters, even though you're over 3...
52 Book Minimum
52 Book Minimum rated it 11 years ago
Annie, Duncan and Tucker find themselves in a strange love triangle. Annie and Duncan have been a couple for 15 years, but Duncan's obsession with former rock star Tucker Crowe has always been an issue. Now after years of being a recluse, an acoustic version of Tucker's famous album "Juliet" has bee...
newwavepolly
newwavepolly rated it 13 years ago
The plot of Juliet, Naked isn't exactly a far from the plots of other works by Nick Hornby. Like his other novels, Juliet blends relationships, music and humour in a realistic way. While the style is similar in an enjoyable way, giving anyone familiar with Hornby exactly what they expect, the plot i...
Rabbit Reads
Rabbit Reads rated it 13 years ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's hard to explain, I could see why someone would find this novel confusing. I liked how he wrote characters, every single one felt like a REAL person- not likeable, yet also not unlikeable. I felt like a voyeur. I think a book should make you feel like one.
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 13 years ago
"Juliet Naked" is told from three related first person accounts. This makes it particularly well suited to being an audio book, with different actors reading the first person accounts. It's an unabridged book, so you get the original prose but with the benefit of some skillful voices that add to the...
Kwoomac
Kwoomac rated it 14 years ago
Hornby writes great characters and the romantic entanglements are believable.
Malin
Malin rated it 14 years ago
Duncan is a big old-music nerd and a self-styled expert on the music career of Tucker Crowe, a singer-songwriter (think Dylan) who released one really critically acclaimed album in the 80s, and then suddenly during a tour disappeared and went into hiding. Duncan frequents internet message boards whe...
Adriana Reads
Adriana Reads rated it 14 years ago
Despite its 406 pages, this was a quick and fun read. The dialogue is very witty. My family must have thought I was losing my mind because I kept laughing out loud. And despite the seeming light tone of the book, there is something deeper too, if you care to dig. It’s a coming of age story, not ...
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