Josh's review
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Josh's review
rating:
bookshelves: comedy
recommended for: to people who are secure enough to laugh at their own despair
status: Read in July, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: comedy
recommended for: to people who are secure enough to laugh at their own despair
status: Read in July, 2007
I didn't get into Hornby for the same reason as everyone else, (they like Jon Cusak in High Fidelity). A Long Way Down was recommended to me by a friend and I needed a light read for the summer so I picked it up.
I have never actually laughed out loud while reading a book until I read this one. Running With Scissors was the closest I came, but Augusten Burroughs was such an unrealistic and absurd character, (which is ironic because he was based on a real person), that it seemed too ridiculous to find laugh-out-loud funny.
Hornby's characters were genuine and honest. In my third year of college, after changing my major for the third time, I studied Psychology. I received a more realistic depiction of depression from this story than I found in any of my textbooks that entire semester.
If you've ever had a bad day, a bad week or even a bad year, you can surely identify with the characters in this book. I identified with the American rockstar because what young person growing...more
I have never actually laughed out loud while reading a book until I read this one. Running With Scissors was the closest I came, but Augusten Burroughs was such an unrealistic and absurd character, (which is ironic because he was based on a real person), that it seemed too ridiculous to find laugh-out-loud funny.
Hornby's characters were genuine and honest. In my third year of college, after changing my major for the third time, I studied Psychology. I received a more realistic depiction of depression from this story than I found in any of my textbooks that entire semester.
If you've ever had a bad day, a bad week or even a bad year, you can surely identify with the characters in this book. I identified with the American rockstar because what young person growing...more
