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S'està carregant… High Fidelity (1995)de Nick Hornby
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» 35 més BBC Big Read (126) music to my eyes (5) Top Five Books of 2015 (108) A Novel Cure (165) 100 New Classics (46) Books Read in 2008 (10) 20th Century Literature (549) Books Read in 2020 (1,144) Overdue Podcast (147) Penguin Random House (11) United Kingdom (26) Books Read in 2015 (1,920) Rory Gilmore Book Club (120) First Novels (76) Allie's Wishlist (1) Books Read in 2006 (111) 1990s (271) Alphabetical Books (45) Books read in 2015 (16) Big tags (12) Protagonists - Men (16) Unread books (644) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. ![]() ![]() i can't believe it took me so long to read this book. I'm obsessed with John cusack so I discovered the movie as I own all of his movies and fell in love with it instantly as it combined two of my favorite things, him and music. but even though this is one of the closest book to movie conversions I've come across, the book is laid out brilliantly. I'm not going to rave about all the bits I loved just read the damn thing because it's only 200ish pages. p.s. I still dislike Laura. Since I saw the movie before reading the book, this one held no surprises for me. The movie's an almost perfect adaptation of the book (not surprisingly, since the narration and the plot are pretty straightforward and very suitable as screenplay material). It's very funny and any male can definitely see himself reflected in some (not all, or you'd be a bastard) of Rob's attitudes. It's insightful in its best passages, but not quite moving as Fever Pitch, the other Hornby book I read. It seems like, for as much as Nick puts of himself in the page, that High Fidelity still has a lot of the artist's pretense to show himself (or his alter-ego) as cool. You may argue that Rob isn't cool anymore, but I think his lifestyle definitely has some of that wish-fulfillment every office worker dreams about (i.e, not having a job, doing your own thing, revert to adolescence). It seems to me that Fever Pitch is much more raw and bereft of the "cool" imposture, showing more of the actual person behind the story. There's a lot of self-deprecation in High Fidelity, and it makes for its funniest moments. As someone said, this book is like "guy-lit", that is, it ought to occupy the same place in the commercial book world as "chick-lit". Maybe it's because it deals with feelings regarding modern relationships, and it replaces shoes and accesories with records. After seeing the "quality" of chick-lit, this comparison would do a great disservice to this book, but it may help anyway to let prospective readers know what to expect, since it's not high-brow and it definitely deals with feelings and is hard to categorize as any genre in particular. The best I can do to inscribe it in a genre also serves as a good description: "A coming of age story, with the character's own selfish, adolescent self as the enemy to vanquish"
Happily, Hornby does not rely on pop-cultural allusion to limn his characters' inner lives, but uses it instead to create a rich, wry backdrop for them... Hornby is as fine an analyst as he is a funny man, and his book is a true original. Mr. Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling. Contingut aTé l'adaptacióTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiantsPremisLlistes notablesPajiba's Best Books of the Generation (No 03 – 2007) Waterstones Books of the Century (No 95 – 1997)
En Rob Fleming té una botiga de discos antics tronada però cool on només ven la música que li agrada a ell. I només vinils, és clar, encara que el negoci, destinat a un públic de col·leccionistes de frivolitats molt seriosos, està sempre a punt de fer fallida. I ara, a més, la Laura l’ha deixat. És perquè en Rob s’entossudeix a perpetuar l’adolescència fins a la decrepitud? O bé –això creu ell– perquè la seva col·lecció de discos i la de la Laura són incompa- tibles? En Rob es refugia en la companyia d’en Barry i en Dick, els seus inefables còmplices a la botiga, i junts fan innombrables i molt masculines llistes dels top del pop: les cinc millors pel·lícules, en què sempre hi ha Reservoir Dogs, els cinc millors capítols de Cheers i les cinc millors cançons d’Elvis Costello... I també comença a sortir amb la Marie, una cantant americana. Sembla que finalment farà realitat un dels seus somnis, tenir una nòvia amb un contracte discogràfic, però llavors reapareix la Laura. I en Rob aviat començarà a fer-se preguntes de difícil resposta sobre la família, la monogàmia, l’amor, el desamor i la maduresa. Pot ser que a la fi descobreixi que també hi ha vida, i música, després de l’adolescència? No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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