High Fidelity

by Nick Hornby | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0140293469 Global Overview for this book
Registered by AnglersRest of Teignmouth, Devon United Kingdom on 9/28/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by AnglersRest from Teignmouth, Devon United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 28, 2005


From Amazon.co.uk
It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This hilarious novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early thirtysomething bloke who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically to adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music

Journal Entry 2 by AnglersRest from Teignmouth, Devon United Kingdom on Friday, January 27, 2006

Journal Entry 3 by wilksie from Sheffield, South Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 22, 2006
I'm taking this out of the two-tier fiction bookbox.
I've heard lots about Nick Hornby but never read anything he has written. I wasn't expecting to like his writing particularly but I read the first few pages of this book and would like to read on.

Journal Entry 4 by wilksie from Sheffield, South Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, April 8, 2006
For me this book came with a major point against it. I am probably the only person in the world who doesn’t like music (any music) so most of the references passed straight over my head. Despite that it held my interest. When I began reading I thought this was going to be just chick-lit for men but it was too well written to be classified so simplistically. Nothing much happened (woman leaves bloke, they get back together again) but I liked it. The characters were likeable, the story was written with humour and insight. How nice to read a relationship novel from a man’s point of view. This was something I would never have picked up to read if it hadn’t come in a bookbox but I’m glad I took it out.
I will definitely read more books by this author.

Journal Entry 5 by wilksie from Sheffield, South Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, October 16, 2006
Put into Giz-angel's Shiny Book box.

Journal Entry 6 by lellie from Trimley St Mary, Suffolk United Kingdom on Thursday, October 19, 2006
Liberated from giz-angels bookbox to be reserved for a Christmas RABCK.

Journal Entry 7 by niccijl from Bradford, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, October 20, 2007
Taken out of UK only bookbox.

Journal Entry 8 by LSK on Friday, November 23, 2007
This was in the Christmas Bookbox. I look forward to reading it.

Journal Entry 9 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at King's Cross, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, June 19, 2010
yep

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