| | High Fidelity (Special Sale) |  | Author: Hornby
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Category: Book
Buy Used: £120.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  95 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
ISBN: 1856864863
EAN: 9781856864862
ASIN: 1856864863
Publication Date: September 28, 1995
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Publisher: Victor GollanczDate of Publication: 1995Binding: ClothEdition: First EditionCondition: Very Good/Very GoodDescription: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall 0 575 05748 3 Signed by Author Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Signed on the title-page by the author Nick Hornby. 253pp with bright, clean and complete dust-wrapper. Bottom right-hand corner of front board is very slightly bumped, which prevents the books being described as fine. My ex-waterstones assistant says he has sold many new books not anything like as good as this!
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 Wonderful book......if a little male orientated (...but then why not?!) December 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's kind of comforting to have a book that men can call their own, and whilst this fairly, short, very accessible novel by Nick Hornby isn't going to win a sweeping amount of awards for being high literature, it is a book packed with very astute and clever insights and characterisations. Hornby's novel centres aroung protagonist Rob Fleming who has just broken up with long term girlfriend Laura, and how he is (not) dealing with it. It is a novel all about liminality, a novel of transition. An adult novel (finally) about growing up without being patronising or condescending with moments and characters that make you jump up suddenly and go 'I know someone like that!' or 'That's exactly right'. This is Hornby's gift, he textualises the most ambivalent emotional states of being and writes them down in easily identifiable form. Rob is both endearing and annoying. He can be sweet and also an utter a***hole. It is also a novel about music and its changing states. Rob's job as the store owner of Championship Vinyl provides a metaphorical backdrop for his emotional life - his inability to move with the times in terms of musical production parallels his inability to 'allow for things to happen' to himself. Supported by a wealth of interesting accomplices (in particular his co-workers: the wonderully obnoxious Barry and the beautifuly crafted, incredibly shy and nervous Dick) Rob provides a fundamentally flawed everyman to express male neuroses and anxieties that Hornby explores. No it is not a book for everyone, and I know several female friends of mine who found it rather misogynistic, but my defence of it would be that finally an author has created a novel using a that has been monopolised by female authors for decades, even centuries. With so many books out their detailing the female inner monologue and their side of emotional issues, it is rather refreshing to find a book describing the male side of that coin.
Really enjoyable December 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
High Fidelty is a great book. I thought the whole "Top 5" thing would get irritating but it didn't. The story is well paced and very funny.
All the little observations made this a very enjoyable rom-com book told from the male perspective.
 A really good book December 22, 2007
Nick Hornby manages it to thrill the reader by telling about things that happen to everybody everyday..It is impressing how often I could find myself in the protagonist Rob.It was the way and structure of his thoughts, which were pretty similar to mine and I bet to the thinking of every other man too. It is a book that explains why men are as they are and Hornby's explanations are so funny and striking at the same time that it made me laugh ou more than any other book I have read. I would also recommend to fans of HORNBY to check out THE FATES by TINO GEORGIOU HIghly recommend!!!
excellent December 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nick Hornby manages it to thrill the reader by telling about things that happen to everybody everyday..It is impressing how often I could find myself in the protagonist Rob.It was the way and structure of his thoughts, which were pretty similar to mine and I bet to the thinking of every other man too. It is a book that explains why men are as they are and Hornby's explanations are so funny and striking at the same time that it made me laugh ou more than any other book I have read.
 No! November 13, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm delighted that this has been so successful because I can see it taps into a particular males psyche, but - surely - literature is about crossing boundaries. If not - what is it there for? I hate to be rude about someone's work because I imagine it must be so hard to write a book but I don't get why this was such a success.
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