Nick Hornby
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born
April 17, 1957
in Redhill, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom
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High Fidelity — published 1995 — 74 editions |
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About a Boy — published 1998 — 85 editions |
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A Long Way Down — published 2005 — 48 editions |
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How to Be Good — published 2001 — 42 editions |
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Juliet, Naked — published 2009 — 35 editions |
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Fever Pitch — published 1992 — 36 editions |
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Slam — published 2007 — 40 editions |
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The Polysyllabic Spree — published 2004 — 10 editions |
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Songbook — published 2002 — 23 editions |
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Speaking With the Angel by Nick Hornby , Irvine Welsh, Melissa Bank — published 2000 — 16 editions |
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Interviews
October 2009,
Nick Hornby
"I'm frustrated by how much time has slipped by in my own life, and I've wasted more time than most, but I'm not sure I'd feel any better if I'd been more productive. For a start, my first couple of books were a product of all the times I'd wasted at football matches and in record stores." ...More
"I'm frustrated by how much time has slipped by in my own life, and I've wasted more time than most, but I'm not sure I'd feel any better if I'd been more productive. For a start, my first couple of books were a product of all the times I'd wasted at football matches and in record stores." ...More
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“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“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.”
― Nick Hornby
― Nick Hornby
“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
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| The Rory Gilmore ...: January Nominations... | 35 | 342 | Dec 03, 2008 07:51pm | |
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| The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL SPRING CHALLENGE - 2009 | 6462 | 7888 | Jun 14, 2009 02:57pm | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Mandy's 50 in 2009 | 34 | 182 | Aug 21, 2009 09:01pm | |
| The Seasonal Read...: By Blood or Marriage (25.2) | 41 | 221 | Aug 24, 2009 02:23pm | |
| The Next Best Boo...: OFFICIAL SUMMER CHALLENGE 2009 | 6757 | 10071 | Aug 31, 2009 10:23pm | |
| Goodreads Author ...: Questions for Nick Hornby? | 2 | 40 | Sep 05, 2009 11:52am | |
| The Book Challenge: Meghan's Other 2009 Challenges | 11 | 66 | Oct 31, 2009 09:58am | |
| The Ultimate Teen...: Shanna's UTBG Progress | 18 | 68 | Nov 02, 2009 12:27pm |
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