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High fidelity

Nick Hornby

3.77 AVERAGE

emotional reflective medium-paced
funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It's a great book that I ruined by watching the movie first. The movie is also great as it is a spot-on adaptation of the book (besides that whole London thing). I feel a troubling sensation as I remember relating to Rob's angst as a teenager, lovesick and taste-defined importance, and now nearing thirty, in the angst of being an aimless adult.

I didn't love this book.

I don't know if I'm just not in the right place in my life to appreciate Rob Fleming's lifestyle. Actually, I can't really relate to him at all because my personality is 100% in the opposite spectrum to his. He embodies everything I hope never to become: someone who is so afraid of not living life to the fullest that he isn't living.

The other women, Marie, Laura, a few others, kept commenting on how witty and good looking he is but I can't picture it. Nor did I find him very witty. I actually sort of found him to be rather borish and self-consumed in an un-entertaining manner.

The last chapter was when I started to see somewhat how all these women could find him appealing, but even that was spoiled once again for his priggishness. I mean, he just won back Laura only to then ask some other girl to marry him? Or was he flirting? I don't know. I feel like I missed something

As I said, it might just be me...

funny slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

One of my favorite authors and one of his best books. And I saw the movie way after I read it. And I'm more a Nick Hornby fan than a John Cusack one. (in case you were wondering)

Come spesso accade combattuto fra i due voti!
Questa volta ho optato per un tre e mezzo "per difetto", perché nella parte finale è stato un pochino più indigesto da affrontare. Un po' meno avvincente, per me, rispetto alla maggior parte del libro, assolutamente fantastico.

Hornby è uno scrittore di talento puro, capace di riflessioni profonde e battute scanzonate. Capace di creare figure stupende, perché caricaturali, ma allo stesso tempo credibili. Barry e Dick, i dipendenti del protagonista, sono entrati di diritto nel novero dei miei personaggi preferiti! :D (la loro scarsa presenza è uno dei motivi per cui ho trovato più "pesante" la parte finale, in effetti!)

Ho letto tutto il libro in una sola nottata, mi aveva assolutamente preso. Una storia agrodolce, in certi momenti triste, in altri assolutamente irresistibile nella sua comicità. Ma una storia profonda, che rimane. Che mostra tante difficoltà, piccole o grandi, che tutti noi ci troviamo ad affrontare, chi più chi meno. Facendoci capire che tutto questo fa parte della Vita di quello strano essere chiamato Uomo. E che non per questo per noi ci sarà solo l'infelicità. In definitiva da leggere assolutamente. (Ok... rileggendo il commento gli metto quattro stelline, non posso dargli meno. :P)

Just one of my favorites...