The first book I've read by this author and I will certainly be reading more...very, very funny and had me laughing out loud in places, quite thought provoking too.

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In Nick Hornby's How To Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. It's also why she puts up with her husband David, self-styled "Angriest Man in Holloway". But one fateful day, she finds herself in a Leeds car-park, having just slept with another man. What she doesn't yet realise is that her Fall from Grace is just the first step on a spiritual journey more torturous than the M25 at rush-hour. Because, prompted by his wife's actions, David is about to stop being Angry. He's about to become Good--not Guardian-reading, organic-food-eating good, but Good in the fashion of the Gospels. And that's no easier in modern-day Holloway than it was in ancient Israel.

Mr Hornby fires his central theme at us from the title page: how can we be good, and what does that mean? But, quite apart from demanding that his readers scrub their souls with the nearest available Brillo pad, he also mesmerises us with that cocktail of wit and compassion which has become his trademark. The result is a multi-faceted jewel of a book: a hilarious romp, a painstaking dissection of middle-class mores, and a powerfully sympathetic portrait of a marriage in its death throes. It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry as we watch David forcing his kids to give away their computers, drawing up schemes for the mass redistribution of wealth and inviting his wife's most desolate patients round for a Sunday roast. But that's because How To Be Good manages to be both brutally truthful and full of hope. It won't outsell the Bible, but it's a lot funnier.

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Picked up at todays meetup. Recomended to me by several people - so it must be good!

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I absolutely hated Fever Pitch and wasn''t too impressed by About a Boy, and thus wasn''t expecting too much from this. It was, however a pleasant surprise. Its theme is very much along the lines of be careful what you ask for, you may just get it. So as David''s family would like him to be just a little bit nicer, when he does have an almost sinister spiritual conversion and starts to make radical changes to the family''s lifestyle, they are somewhat at a loss as to how to deal with this zealous paragon of virtue and his spiritual leader. Suffice it to say that things will never be the same again...

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