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Juliet, Naked
by Nick Hornby
I started off really enjoying this book. I thought I was going to like it more now than I did when I first read it, some four years ago.
Annie resonated with me: "What do you do if you think you've wasted fifteen years of your life?" she writes. She's coasting through her life, with an irritating, unknowingly domineering schlub of a partner. If this book were just about Annie's awakening, I would rate this an easy four stars.
But then there's Tucker. There's a long swatch of his narration in the last third of the book, and whatever admiration I had for him for leading Annie away from the schlub (via his music, not through anything he said to her as a person) evaporated with every page I turned. How is it that Hornby can write believable, strong-but-weak female leads, but all his male leads are so indecisive, weak-willed . . . so schlubby? His male characters are nothing without the women (see also High Fidelity).
It's an okay book and a fast read. I don't think I've ever not recommended a Nick Hornby book, but don't judge Nick by this book.
Annie resonated with me: "What do you do if you think you've wasted fifteen years of your life?" she writes. She's coasting through her life, with an irritating, unknowingly domineering schlub of a partner. If this book were just about Annie's awakening, I would rate this an easy four stars.
But then there's Tucker. There's a long swatch of his narration in the last third of the book, and whatever admiration I had for him for leading Annie away from the schlub (via his music, not through anything he said to her as a person) evaporated with every page I turned. How is it that Hornby can write believable, strong-but-weak female leads, but all his male leads are so indecisive, weak-willed . . . so schlubby? His male characters are nothing without the women (see also High Fidelity).
It's an okay book and a fast read. I don't think I've ever not recommended a Nick Hornby book, but don't judge Nick by this book.