Pros: Great character development, some interesting thoughts and philosophy Cons: Weak ending compared to Hornby's other works
I became interested in author Nick Hornby after seeing the movie High Fidelity, which is based on his novel. When I heard that About A Boy was being made into a movie, I wanted to read it before the film came out.
Pros: Wonderful prose, the character of Marcus is charming and perfectly written. Cons: The character of Will.
It was a rainy weekend in Nebraska and my fiancee was gone for Army training...sounds like the perfect recipe for reading, doesn't it? And that's exactly what I did. In my two days of solitude (if you don't include the cat and dog), I polished off Nick...
Pros: Cute, and not in that shiny, happy, makes you want to vomit way. Cons: Your "cool underground" book reading cred may slightly decrease... Hornby's old news now.
So, for the past few months, I've been spending a lot of time doing some introspective thinking, discovering who I really am, an... uh, who am I kidding? I've been sitting around doing a whole lot of nothing. And while I think I'm really mastering the...
Pros: Easy to read, terrific statements on life Cons: may leave you looking for a more defined conclusion
Nick Hornby's novel "About a Boy" focuses essentially on the lives of two boys, one a troubled twelve year old named Marcus and the other a thirty-six year old named Will.
Pros: Sharp humor and writing, good story and characters Cons: Not a mimic of his earlier works, if that's all you are looking for
Nick Hornby's High Fidelity is one of my favorite novels -- it persuaded me to read Fever Pitch, his second novel/biography about his obsession with English soccer, even though I neither know anything about soccer nor care to. I really enjoyed that book...
Pros: The story steers itself -- never do you feel author Hornby standing over them with whip in the mode of, say, Nabokov Cons: A (relatively) short novel, it's over quickly...but then again, all that means is, you get to read it again. Also, you're free to loan it out to the deserving
Saying author Nick Hornby is the modern-male Jane Austen may be a bit glib, but I'm at a loss for another writer who infuses the same emotional fragility and appealing sense of vulnerability to his characters as the English department mainstay.
Pros: pleasing style of writing; humorous; insightful Cons: storyline a bit cliched
Will Freedman is thirty six, cool, single, 36, and spends his days living off the money his father made from writing a Christmas song decades ago. He’s as superficial as superficial can be, desiring only sex and good music, and disdaining the button-down...
Pros: short chapters Cons: slow plot, uninteresting characters
About a Boy was my first Nick Hornsby book, though I admit I wasn't too impressed by it. The book's two central characters, Will and Marcus, I found little to care about. Will was the thirty-something playboy with not a care in the world ...
I love it when a book can make you laugh and make you think. About a Boy is such a book. The author is Nick Hornby, who also wrote High Fidelity. It sounds cliche, but this book made me laugh and cry, and often at the same time. In short, it...
Pros: Entertaining and witty Cons: Lack of character depth
About a Boy by Nick Hornby is a well-written novel about a man who unwittingly finds his true self. Will Freeman is a single thirty-six year old that doesn’t have any responsibilities. He survives off the royalties of a popular Christmas song his...
Pros: very funny, clever, likeable characters Cons: a little sentimental (but maybe that's a pro for you)
Twelve-year old Marcus is so out of touch that he believes Ellie, the sulky, scruffy girl from year ten who hacks off her own hair and wears black lipstick, when she tells him the guy on her T-shirt who looks a little like Jesus is Kirk O'Bane, who plays...
I was loaned a copy of "High Fidelity," Hornby's last novel, last year and ate it up. Talk about great fiction. Any guy who is single (or remembers being single) and is proud of his music collection enjoys High Fidelity.
Pros: Great plot and wonderful characters Cons: Not as good as High Fidelity
About a Boy was the first Hornby novel that I read. Listening, for some reason, to Radio 4 at about half eleven in the late summer / early autumn of 1999, Stephen Tomlinson was reading About a Boy on the late book programme. I got hooked. So hooked, in...
This is a coming-of-age tale of TWO boys, in fact: one 12 years of age,
the other 36. Crackling dialogue, a glimpse of Britain on the cusp of
Blairism (winter, 1993), and a dry English wit make this "male
confessional" a...
Paperback, A Long Way Down In his fourth novel, New York Times bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reach...
Paperback, Not a Star A funny and frank story about a mother and her colorful son. It s bad enough for a mother to discover that her son is a porn star, even worse when the...
Paperback, An Education: The Screenplay From the New York Times -bestselling author of High Fidelity and About a Boy comes this edition of the author s adapted screenplay to his award-winnin...
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