High Fidelity | 
Added to my #TBR pile! Love the John Cusack film #bookstoscreen
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pickA book that contains a lot of my favourite things, record shops, lists, musical snobbery. Whilst Rob the main character can be quite unsympathetic. It‘s a great read and glad I finally got round to reading it after watching the movie many years ago
pick1-5 Dec 23 (audiobook)
Rob is in his mid-30s but has failed to grow up. He owns a failing record store, has few friends and a series of ex-girlfriends, who all seem to have dumped him for someone better. When his latest girlfriend leaves, he decides to reconnect with his exes to inquire why they dumped him.
Rob is immature and difficult to like. He is misogynistic, sulky and bitter.
But I loved Hornby‘s ability to evoke the period and his humour.
pickOne of my top five favourite books of all time. Great choice for a re-read. #bookfiveof2023
"It's no good pretending that any
*relationship* has a future if your
record collections disagree
violently or if your favorite films
wouldn't even speak to each other
if they met at a party." Love this book!
Pics of Paperback Writer, a fave vinyl records & used books #bookstore in Michigan. #mittenlitten #relationship #InQuotes
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#manicmonday #letterH @CBee
📖 High Fidelity
✍️ Patricia Highsmith, Nick Hornby, Thomas Hardy
🎞️ How to lose a guy in 10 days 📺 House MD
🎤 Ed Harcourt
🎵 Heat of the Night by Bryan Adams
pick9-16-22: My 91st finished book of 2022! Rob, a whiny 30 something owner of a record shop in London has been dumped, again. This leads him to look back at past relationships and try to figure out what went wrong, while trying to win his recent girlfriend back. I love the way Nick Hornby writes but Rob is very annoying in how he handles women so it was tough reading his inner monologues and not get frustrated with him. ⭐️⭐️⭐️📖#️⃣9️⃣1️⃣
#Alphabetgame #LetterH @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I love this book so much that I find it difficult to write about it. It's so brilliant and real.
"What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music?"
Nick Hornby- High Fidelity
so-soI finished my #DoubleSpin pick this month! I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. It was sort of a coming of age novel about a 36-year-old who should have already grown up. He sees everyone being adults around him, and it seems to make him angry, until he realizes how that could be just as important to him as his record collection and knowledge of music.
@TheAromaofBooks
Starting Day 2 of the #JoyousJanuary #Readathon with coffee and High Fidelity
#coffeeandabook
@Andrew65
pick#ProfessionalBOokNerdsChallenge #Day2 @Readergrrl Can't just pick one!3 of my favourite writers,I absolutely LOVE Fever Pitch though I'm not a football fan-it's a book about fandom in general, and being human.There are so many Pratchetts that could be the best,I picked this one-I really like the books where Moist features, they're lovely allegories of the modern world.Adichie is a genius,enough said.
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 144.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
panFinished my July #BookSpin. I don‘t like writing bad reviews but honesty this should have been a bail. Bye, Felicia 😆 Full Review here. I had a lot to say 🙃
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/346888643
“Well, I‘m sexist, aren‘t I? Is that the right answer?”
I think this line about sums up my experience reading the book. Yes Rob. That is the answer. Reading this book made me want to question my own memory having grown up loving the film.
July #BookSpinBingo Card
I will be spending some quality time with my Kindle/Overdrive this month I think I maybe have 2 books this time that are psychical books
so-soAnother semester of uni over so I‘m BACK! This book is for book club and I would‘ve liked it better if it weren‘t entirely about a hopeless, selfish, self-absorbed a-hole who obsesses about what other people think of him and whose existence depends entirely on whether he can get his D wet. At least it was better than the last book club book (Ready Player Two - not even worth a Litsy add) so for that reason alone this book is not a pan.
panThe main character is flat, boring and spine-less. He only defines himself through the women he dates and the music he thinks is best. The plot is meaningless and the side characters add nothing. The writing style is fine, but not something that will stay in your head.
(🎧 - audiobook)
1. I currently live in Columbus, Ohio - My Fathers Closet 2. Indian reservation in Montana. -The Only Good Indians. 3. The Altmans - This is Where I Leaves You. -just for fun High Fidelity because the movie being filmed in Chicago is the best
What are your thoughts on High Fidelity? I‘m in the middle of reading this one and so far I‘ve enjoyed his style and story. The generous dose of music reference helps! 😁
#MeetTheLittens
(1) Budapest, Hungary
(2) High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
(3) The Saxon Tales (aka. The Last Kingdom series) by Bernard Cornwell
(4) Back to the Future
(5) Veronica Mars (the original 3 seasons)
(6) Bryan Adams
(7) green
(8) historical fiction
(9) I teach English as a second language at a secondary school
(10) none
pickI thought this was pretty fun! Loads about music, books, and movies from the 80‘s and 90‘s.
The main story is about a guy who owns a record store and is pretty bad at relationships. There‘s not a fast moving plot, but a bunch of scruffy characters with not a lot of direction to their lives, and some musicians.
I was glad to see the MC have a bit of personal growth by the end. Midway through I thought he was going to be hopeless.
I miss the old record stores like Record Bar, great places to hear new music. I always said a mall without a music store and a book store, isn't a real mall.
#QuotsyAug20 #vinyl
@TK-421
One of my favorite books and films was made into a show on Hulu. I‘m loving how they‘ve updated the story! Zoe Kravitz is great as Rob, and Debbie Harry just showed up on a Springsteen-like cameo.
Good stuff on all mediums.
pick“My desert-island, all-time, top five...”
Nick Hornby wrote the character Rob in such a way that it made me care what he was thinking and understood his actions (even though I didn‘t like Rob for most of the book). Then Hornby ties Rob up in the end as a truly relatable protagonist.
pickMy all time top five favourite things about high fidelity:
1- the top fives
2- the mix tapes
3- existential angst
4- immature narcissistic narrator
5- it‘s not what you like, it‘s what you‘re like.
So going of number 5, even if you don‘t like high fidelity, I can still (theoretically) like you.
#MoVember
I couldn‘t think of books and #music without thinking of Nick Hornby‘s writing...... Loved this book and movie 📚💕🎥
Book dragons are everywhere, even in little Bavarian towns.
No, I haven‘t switched books (yet) - a conversation with my best friend sparked this question, a la High Fidelity: what are you Top 5 Favourite Books? I can come up with 1-3 easily; 4 and 5 are going to take some serious thought. Let me know yours! I love discovering great books. #top5 #topfive #top5favoritebooks #top5favouritebooks #booklovers #books #whatiread
Next on my reading list is this book. I‘ve loved other books by Hornby and I‘m this wont disappoint
#nickhornby #highfidelity #book #books #reading
pickPerfect book given as a present by my oldest friend when I had lost my way in the world
The protagonist owns a record shop in London. The book tells of his love life, a sort of ‘male fiction‘? Not up my street.
#ayupaugust #putyourrecordson
#talkinboutarevolution #LilithJuly
My brain went to 45 and 33 revolutions per minute!
These two are both set in record shops..... I love High Fidelity but I have yet to read The Music Shop.... mostly because there a so many #meh reviews of it here on Litsy! 🤷♀️
pickGreat, well written and witty palate cleanser. I foresee lots of Nick Hornby in my future. Terrific audio production too. Made me miss the days of home-made mixed tapes.
I‘ve never read a Nick Hornby before and have been meaning to for years. So far this audio version is excellent with a perfectly matched narrator. And the story is witty and interesting, nothing high brow but good fun.
#MayMadness #BookToMovie “What came first , the music or the misery?” There is nothing that I don‘t like about this movie or this book.Yeah,the book takes place in the U.K. & the movie Chicago,but the universal story of love,loss ,deluding oneself & the excessive love of music works wonderfully on both sides of the pond.I read the book when it was first published & it‘s my go to movie when I want the world to “F”off.Early Jack Black?Awesome .
Finished my second book for #booked2019 Spring, #featuresamusician I think I‘m heading for cli-fi next! @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage
Tuesday at the used book store.... if I finish today then I can put it back on the shelf lol
I know it‘s Monday but it‘s already been one of those days so I went to my happy place!
so-soI first read this as a teenager and all I remember was that I really didn't like it. A friend of mine said it's one of her favourite books so I thought I'd give it a go as an adult. I laughed out loud twice and enjoyed all the lists and music. However, it is not ok to continue trying to grab girls' breasts and crotches when they're saying no and batting you away and the nonchalant way this is described is wrong.
