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A review by graceverse
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
1.0
I like Nick Hornby as an author. Even if he lives in the opposite ends of the world, something about his story or the voice of his characters or both feels familiar and completely relate-able. I have read a couple of his books which I enjoyed (Slam and Fever Pitch) and loved (About A Boy) but this one really made me scratch my head - at least when I came to the middle part and then it all went downhill from there.
The first few chapters were funny and there were a lot of clever lines and issues brought up that made me think. But then, I thought there'd be some change, like some spark of hope or realization on kindness and I don't know, I guess I was looking for something uplifting and not the depressingly repetitive whining from the main character, Katie.
By the end of the book Katie was depressed, her husband was depressed, the kids are depressed and I join them in that awful depression. I was kind of hoping that the whole family, with the exception of Tom (their youngest and the most likeable character in their family) to fall off that damn window and get it all over and done with.
The first few chapters were funny and there were a lot of clever lines and issues brought up that made me think. But then, I thought there'd be some change, like some spark of hope or realization on kindness and I don't know, I guess I was looking for something uplifting and not the depressingly repetitive whining from the main character, Katie.
By the end of the book Katie was depressed, her husband was depressed, the kids are depressed and I join them in that awful depression. I was kind of hoping that the whole family, with the exception of Tom (their youngest and the most likeable character in their family) to fall off that damn window and get it all over and done with.