false 6224826 12 Annie loves Duncan — or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they’ve got. Tucker’s been languishing (and he’s unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin — his young son, Jackson. But then there’s also the new material he’s about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, <I>Juliet</I> — entitled, <I>Juliet, Naked</I>. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? <I>Juliet, Naked</I> is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one’s promise. 6405538 book 29 9 2009 Juliet, Naked: A Novel total:651|5:96|4:292|3:211|2:42|1:10| 651 2375 2297 226 4 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 09:02:20 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 09:16:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 30 07:06:51 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 07:21:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 10:00:06 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 10:00:57 -0700 2009
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Annie and Duncan live in a sleepy town in Northern England and are in a relationship that is stuck on autopilot. Annie ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:19:43 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 19:33:30 -0700 2009 How to Be Good) so it's early yet for me to be talking about "quintessential Hornby," but Juliet, Naked is similar enough to Good to give a general sense of what Hornby's good at. and what he's good at is writing about normal people with normal anxieti...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 17:03:25 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 18:00:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 04 15:38:56 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 20:55:16 -0700 2009
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I don't know if I should give this book 4 or 5 stars. I am a bit worried that I only want to give it 5 stars because I love nick hornby so much.
...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 17:20:19 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 12:02:49 -0700 2009 Juliet, Naked takes place in a world where the discussion of books, music, film, and good TV is common currency. Only Duncan,the least well developed of the three central characters, has taken things a bit too far in his obsession with the musician Tucker Crowe. His...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 09:59:21 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:58:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 03 09:21:13 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 10:05:41 -0700 2009 High Fidelity is one of my favorite novels of all time, Fever Pitch is one of my favorite non-fiction books, and I was a big fan of About a Boy as well. Since then, I've been waiting for Nick Hornby to recapture that magic. Juliet, Naked comes the closest. There are three beautifully realized charac...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 04:28:39 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:27:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 18:26:02 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 21:25:39 -0700 2009
I really quite enjoyed this book; next to "About a Boy," it's my favorite of his novels thus far. It's as though Hornby has taken...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 14:40:05 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 04:29:53 -0700 2009
It's about ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 17:10:51 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 12:20:56 -0700 2009 I read this as a pre-release from work, and knew I'd get through it in about two days (amidst all the other weekend mucking about). Hornby's books are always so amusing in their scenarios and character development, that you can't help but have a great time reading them. His prose really delivers inc...

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Annie has been in a relationship with Duncan for 15 year...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 17:28:22 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 10:22:04 -0700 2009 About a Boy back when I was a junior in high school (gosh, about 8 years ago?) and I loved it. I can't believe that I hadn't picked up another Nick Hornby novel until now. I got this book at the Book Expo in NYC back at the end of May...more...]]>