Pulled me in from the first page. Elements of High Fidelity and About a Boy in this one, and apparently I'm a sucker for a well-told story about former rock stars, the people who adore them and the people who don't. Didn't want to put this one down until it was finished.
super-depressing. why am i reading this? hornby's tendency to be really hard on his male characters sometimes seems like honesty, but here it just feels like the one guy is a punching bag. maybe it's me, but i can't help thinking hornby loathes his own character, which makes the book less interestin...
Pop culture references, check. Rock music obsession, check. A cast of adult males who act like stunted children, check. Yup, this is a Nick Hornby novel, all right. It's also his most entertaining book in quite a while, even if it is a retread of his most successful books (that would be High Fidelit...
His best since High Fidelity, I think. As with _A Long Way Down_, he doesn't get his American characters' speech quite right - you find them using phrases here and there that Americans just don't generally use, which is especially hard to overlook in the six-year-old-boy character - but overall, th...
Although not a Full Cast production, this story has 3 narrators to go along with the 3 voices and main characters in this book: - Annie who used to love Duncan. - Duncan who thinks he loves Annie, but is really obsessed with former rock star Tucker Crowe. - and Tucker Crowe - a washed up former rock...
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