High Fidelity: A Novel

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Summary: RAZOR SHARP INSIGHT OF THE MALE MIND...
Review: For any guy whose struggled with overcoming a fear of committment or any woman who would like to better understand this common male dilema. High Fidelity captures every neurotic, selfish, arrogant, innadequate, and self conscious feeling that most men have and spits them out through a sharp, hip and intelligent story. I'm giving this book to every person who has wanted to better understand me but has been unable to because I could never put what Nick Hornby has into words.

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Summary: This book cuts far too close to the bone!
Review: I feel like I know the main character Rob far, far too well. I think Nick Hornby has been following me and my friends round for the last couple of years. I am not yet in my thirties and I am female and yet this book still rang true. I found this was also the case for my flatmate. I forced her to read the book and she wandered round with a worried look on her face for a couple of days while she was reading it. We both felt it was strange to read a book about your own life written by someone that does not know you. I had to lend it to another friend after he had us doing top five lists in the pub one night. I assumed he had read Hi Fidelity - he had never even heard of it but was living Rob's life all the same. He loved the book needless to say!

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Summary: Modern Love ( A David Bowie's song in case you don't know)
Review: Much better than "Fever Pitch". A real handbook on love before the year 2.000. I have not read for a long time any other book depicting so clearly the sentimental life (mess) of people who are 30's in the 90's, but spent their teenhood in the 80's. And - incredible it may look- about the love life of people who, like me, spent his youth in the 90's. Maybe this is the reason people like this book : it simply tells us about ourselves, about the inner feelings and motivations that we all men and women have but do not dare to say. This book was perhaps necessary so that we stop believing our own lies about the others and -worse- about ourselves when we think/talk/act in love. There are no innocents in the cruel game of love, this is one of the lessons of HiFi. Top 5 characters in this book besides Rob : Marie LaSalle, Charlie, Dick, Barrie, Laura.

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Summary: Sick
Review: This book made me sick.With joy and despair! Because it is bloody so well written ,loaded with insights about what it means to be a man and depressing to think that I am such a man.

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Summary: Sharp, intuitive detail.
Review: I loved reading this book. The author vividly describes the happenings of the main character; a music store owner, looking for love. If you enjoyed Trainspotting, you will also enjoy this.

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Summary: Painfully true and close to home
Review: On a number of occasions I was reading this and thinking "That's me!" or "That's my girlfriend!" or "Those are my friends!!" and I'm not from north London or in my 30s - yet. Organising your music collection alphabetically or by genre is not nerdy, it's sensible. Let's hope the film version with John Cusack (v. underrated actor) keeps the book's cynicism.

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Summary: Don't read it if you don't want your true self to be reveal
Review: It's pathetic just how much Rob and this entire book mirrors my life. Geez, im a loser and a jerk.

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Summary: Pure joy
Review: Revitalizing, natural, and a blast for any entertainment-lover, High Fidelity was my favorite book of the summer. It was a nice change to read a light-hearted tale of one man's relationships that were all based on pop culture.

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Summary: Megamod Harry and Sally
Review: Protagonist Rob is a jerk. Vain. Self-centered. Selfish. Insensitive. If you read the other reviews on this page, you'll be surprised at this depiction - they enjoyed his character. As did I, which testifies to the extraordinary trick of Mr. Hornby - to shine clear light into the soul of a guy changing from dick to man in a way that is amusing (you will laugh out loud), insightful (you will talk about this book with your friends, and re-think your destinies and relationships), and engrossing (you will not put this down). * * * Definitely, definitely, worth the $ and the time. Enjoy!

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Summary: Stranger than Fiction!
Review: I bought High Fidelity for a friend with 4,000 records in his apartment's walk in closet but before I could mail it I had to lend it to another friend when he told me he was in the process of looking up all of his old girlfriends after his latest breakup. It's all too true! And a great, laugh out loud, read to boot.