Jim's review
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
You should always listen to what your librarian has to say. Librarians live cool.
Forgot the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and the Justice League, librarians are the cosmic masters who decide our collective fate! :0
I think im in the wrong career, i should become a librarian!!
It requires many years of training. Many apply, but few survive. First you must find a Librarian Master who will teach you the ways of the Dewey Decimal System (but beware the dark side of the Library of Congress system of cataloging!). You must practice for hours everyday, shelving books using only your mind. Finally, when your training is complete, you must be approved by the Secret Council of Librarians. Then they give you your light-saber!
all of that is worth is, as long as i get the light saber.......such work to become a librarian!
Hey, Jennifer T! This is good, and I'm almost finished. I do have one worry, though. When I'm done, will it make me cool, too? Or did I wait too long?
Only if you spend your Saturday night putting your record collection in chronological order.
I've done that! Yes!
Jim's review
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Jim's review
rating:
bookshelves:
humor-and-irony,
this-sceptred-isle
recommended for: Anyone who wants to be cool
My librarian told me that I should read this, noting that all of the cool people had already read it, and I always, always do what my librarian tells me.
Now, finally, I am cool for the first time in my life.
Seriously, though, I loved this book. Hornby perfectly captures the self-obsession and cluelessness a lot of guys experience in relationships and life. He also conveys the feeling a lot of us get at some point during middle age, that "what the hell happened" feeling.
Rob Fleming is a man who runs a barely-profitable record store. He feels older and suspects that no one under the age of 30 has heard of his favorite music. His parents make him mental, and his girlfriend has left him. He obsesses about all of it, but especially the last bit.
For me, the story attains an epiphany when Rob realizes that the video for the Dusty Springfield song "The Look of Love" has screwed up all of his relationships by giving him unrealistic expectations...more
Now, finally, I am cool for the first time in my life.
Seriously, though, I loved this book. Hornby perfectly captures the self-obsession and cluelessness a lot of guys experience in relationships and life. He also conveys the feeling a lot of us get at some point during middle age, that "what the hell happened" feeling.
Rob Fleming is a man who runs a barely-profitable record store. He feels older and suspects that no one under the age of 30 has heard of his favorite music. His parents make him mental, and his girlfriend has left him. He obsesses about all of it, but especially the last bit.
For me, the story attains an epiphany when Rob realizes that the video for the Dusty Springfield song "The Look of Love" has screwed up all of his relationships by giving him unrealistic expectations...more
You should always listen to what your librarian has to say. Librarians live cool.
Forgot the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and the Justice League, librarians are the cosmic masters who decide our collective fate! :0
I think im in the wrong career, i should become a librarian!!
It requires many years of training. Many apply, but few survive. First you must find a Librarian Master who will teach you the ways of the Dewey Decimal System (but beware the dark side of the Library of Congress system of cataloging!). You must practice for hours everyday, shelving books using only your mind. Finally, when your training is complete, you must be approved by the Secret Council of Librarians. Then they give you your light-saber!
all of that is worth is, as long as i get the light saber.......such work to become a librarian!
Hey, Jennifer T! This is good, and I'm almost finished. I do have one worry, though. When I'm done, will it make me cool, too? Or did I wait too long?
Only if you spend your Saturday night putting your record collection in chronological order.
I've done that! Yes!
