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Summary: Great for a cross-country flight
Review: One of my top five books!
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Summary: SemperFidelity
Review: Did you have a favorite blanket when you were little? Get ready to meet your new one, now that you're older. This book gave me more pleasure last year when I read it than that much beloved piece of flannel ever did, and I dragged Nick Hornby's pseudomemoir around with me long after I finished reading it, in the sense that I tried to FORCE everyone else I knew, even slightly, to read it. Why? Like Rob, the protagonist, I am not exactly sure about "stuff". However, at least he is honest, and, incredibly funny about the mess he is making about his life. In other words, he is so very, totally, hopelessly HUMAN.I didn't particularly care about the fact that the author is male and I, the reader, am female. I think this is not the point of this book. Rather, this book is about the struggles we all have, doing our best to face up to our fears, and the total screw ups we all make just living our lives when we finally take some sort of a stand about ANYTHING and make a choice. After all, what could possibly go wrong? Ha, ha, ha. Just read the first page and I guarantee you'll be hooked. By the time you are finished, you will be touched and you will want to touch the other people you know by sharing this terrific, funny, poignant, contempory bestseller with them. Can't wait to see the movie. If John Cusack doesn't do right by this, I'll be really surprised. Even though he is not British, like the author, Nick Hornby, he should be perfect. He's got the vulnerable yet intelligent maleness that makes you incapable of not loving High Fidelity's funny, goofy, always trying (well, kind of) Rob down to a T. Now go rearrange your record collection. best wishes, Jean
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Summary: Pretty Darn Good
Review: This book was pretty good. It reminded me VERY much of Tom Perotta's book "The Wishbones". I hope the movie does the book justice.
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Summary: The main character....
Review: I found this book so special because of the main character. Because he is so...ME! His total addiction of music can be compared to my relationships to movies and books. And his problems with women I can identify to too. Tough I feel I`m not that tragic... Read this book if you have a big interest in life. Read this book if you`ve ever been dumped or breaked up with your girlfriend (or several girlfriends...). Read this book if you want to read the most entertaining and original lovestory ever! And last but not least: Read this book if you once in a while feel a bit tragic...
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Summary: Very fast, Very good read!
Review: This is a great book! I especially like the enourmous amount of musical references (music afterall defines who we are) and the British setting. This book establishes that you don't have to be someone to be someone and grants hope for all of us that aren't quite sure where we are heading in life.
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Summary: the perfect counterpart to bridget jones
Review: this book was amazing, i couldn't put it down. athough i still don't understand any more about men, i can fully recognize the characters in this book with many men that i know.
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Summary: pure entertainment
Review: I loved this book. Its not a life changing work of literature but it is an intelligent, funny bit of entertainement. I wish the publisher would release a companion cd of all the great music mentioned in the book. I think I might have liked About A Boy better but I'm not sure. They're both wonderful.
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Summary: how can anyone not like this book?
Review: Any person who dislikes High Fidelity should have his or her head examined. This book is hilarious and touching. It has not one single jot of pretense and never aspires to be a "big" novel. It is simply a well-executed, highly original, intelligent book that will make anyone with a brain and a heart laugh out loud.
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Summary: Anthropology and the bloke
Review: A smart, insightful and endlessly funny piece of writing. This is a profound book about men that hides its profundity exceedingly well. Hornby takes male readers to places we know only too well, but were never able to describe quite so eloquently or hilariously... and gives female readers an anthropological tour of the bloke that does for the unmapped, confused, confusing and often simply ludicrous regions of the male psyche what Diane Fossey did for the world of the African primates. (Actually, the subject matter is probably a lot more similar than many of us would like to admit, except apes learn that if you hit yourself on the head with a branch and it causes you pain and distress, it's probably a good idea to avoid doing it again - and Hornby would suggest that most blokes haven't quite reached that advanced level of reasoning yet). Highly recommended for anyone in possession of a penis, or anyone else curious about the owners of said organs.
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Summary: Over Rated
Review: This book is simply - NOT THAT GOOD. It's not horrible, but . .
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