High Fidelity: A Novel

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Summary: Read it in the privacy of your own home
Review: Although I am still in high school I found this book to be very funny and relatable. I read it in school one day and I had to put it away because I was laughing out loud and people were looking strangely at me. I never brought it back to school again.

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Summary: me and Hornby
Review: I usually go for books that give me the feel that I'm sitting down having a cup of coffee with someone who's telling me their life story. "High Fidelity" was that way. And I knew it would be after the first paragraph of the book. I'd put it up there with J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye." It had the sweet talk about sweet desires and feelings I like, but it wasn't based on that. That was just a special. It was about a man, and his great love, one that I can identify with, the love for music. And as critical as he was, he was equally realistic and human.

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Summary: memorable, insightful, and all too true
Review: I laughed in tears, I harrassed my friends trying to get them to read this book, I blew up a quote and put it up on my wall as being the truest thing anyone could ever hope to say in a work of fiction, the one about having a survey form for potential love interests who might have wildly disagreeable tastes in music and films. (Obsession seems all too familiar). It is never too late to read this book!

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Summary: Uncompromising and prismatic
Review: This is an era of literature where too often an author compromises either the integrity of the ending or the tenor of the story in the name of a "better" tale. Nick Hornby distills Rob Fleming, his friends, his business and his relationships into painfully clear, unartistic still photographs - but the resulting collage is stunning. This is the story of a thirtysomething man who loved his adolescence, honestly believes the love of his life will have a compatible record collection, and comforts himself by drawing analogies between his new, responsibility-laden adulthood and the music of his youth. It's easy to draw parallels between Rob and yourself, but I believe Hornby's is a cautionary tale - about when to grow up, and about how to do it without becoming your parents in the process. On my 5-title short list of best books I've ever read.

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Summary: this is my life.
Review: Really. I feel cheated. Someone stole my current life and put it in a book. A must-read for all men, in or out of relationships.

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Summary: This is Real
Review: This book describes almost exactly what goes on in the minds of my friends. Sad but true, we do think this way.

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Summary: Top Five Things I Liked About This Book:
Review: 1) The irony of the "women's magazine complaint" about foreplay. 2) The "panties revelation". 3) The "rules of a mix tape" 4) the truth that friends, family, stangers, like you better when you have a girlfriend. 5) The "law": once you have sex with someone you can't speak to them.

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Summary: A great window into our generation's men - for BOTH sexes.
Review: This was definately a laugh-out-loud kind of book; a quick and enjoyable read. It's so real that even I can relate to the women characters, and some of Rob's feelings about music, breakups, etc. Can't wait to recommend this to our reading group!

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Summary: Great book for women too.
Review: I got this book for my boyfriend and the review on the back of it made me curious and a little jealous....but when I read it a year later, I thought it was great!!! Great insight for women about men. Very entertaining...I couldn't put it down, read it in a couple of days.

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Summary: There's more to life than record collecting
Review: This book is not, contrary to some opinion, about record collecting. It concerns the way Rob's life has been shaped by the relationships with various women he has had in his life - including the quite powerful influence of his very first, which lasted but three days before got into something of a rut. This is a funny and absorbing book which you will be glad you chose to read. However, if you are going to read one Nick Hornby novel, I recommend you go for the third "about a boy". In the end though, once you've read one I'm pretty sure you'll go on to read all of his book anyhow.