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High Fidelity
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781573225519
ISBN: 1573225517
Label: Riverhead Trade
Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: August 01, 1996
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Studio: Riverhead Trade
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Editorial Review:
It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music.
Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him and he's both miserable and relieved. After all, he could have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection. Rob seeks refuge in the company of Barry and Dick, the offbeat clerks at his store who endlessly review their top five films, top five Elvis Costello songs, and top five episodes of Cheers. Rob tries dating a singer called Marie. Maybe its just that he's always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. But then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think that a life as an episode of Thirty-something might not be so bad.
"...as funny, compulsive and contemporary a first novel as you could wish for" (GQ)
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good music, good writing
Nick Hornby writes a winning novel about three young slackers. He pokes gentle fun at them as they navigate the bewildering puzzles of romance and life. This is one of Hornby's earlier books, and his tone is not as polished as it will become. Still, he offers up his hilarious take on male-female relationships, and the vicissitudes of a young man's heart. This may not be Hornby at his best, but it is still very enjoyable.
The three record store guys are forever making lists of their ... Read More
Rating:  - High Fidelity
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby *****
High Fidelity follows the story of Rob. A thirtysomething who owns a failing record shop (Championship Vinyl) and is in the middle of a failing relationship with Laura, who he is having trouble excepting that he loves and wants to spend the rest of his life with.
Rob is on the journey of acceptance and a journey to find himself (yes at thirty something years old he still does not fully know who and what he is or wants to be) and along that ... Read More
Rating: - Worst book ever written!
The title holds true if you hate all things related to music & comedic insight into how relationships are supposed to work.
If you're the opposite, do the equivalent of pressing "play" in literary fashion.
Thomas
Rating: - Like a woman trapped in a man's body
but not in the gross sense of the word. For all the "chick lit" books out there, this novel really gives insight into what men think of when dealing with relationships. There is so much going on in there; all his insecurities and all the details he remembers about each girl or each situation. Who says men don't remember? The movie captures the endless questioning and inner struggle perfectly, never mind that John Cusack was the perfect person to play the main charecter "Rob", given Cusack's film ... Read More
Rating: - straight out of my head
while i was reading this i kept finding my self saying this is being pulled straight from my head! very witty real and hysterical, the only thing holding it back from a 5 star is the fact that its too british but still a classic
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