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... and not have someone read me the book. It's why I leave with met or unmet expectations based on the movie, not the book. High Fidelity was another case of an excellent movie based on a pretty good book. The top-ten lists wore me down in the book and I loved them when it was John Cusack ... I am starting High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. ... Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
28. Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu by Kira Salak
29. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
30. My Sweet-orange Tree by Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos
31. Polar Shift by Clive Cussler
32. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessi ... ... the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
6. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
7. Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah
8. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
9. Gilgamesh - Joan London
10. Careless - Deborah Robertson
11. Milk and Honey - Elizabeth Jolly
Now I'm reading:
11. The Well - ... ... Michael Ondaatje
6. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
7. Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah by Abdulrazak Gurnah
8. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
9. Gilgamesh by Joan London
10. Careless by Deborah Robertson
11. Milk and Honey by Elizabeth Jolly
Now I'm reading:
11. The Wel ... ... Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003 ... Could not wait any longer - I have ordered:
The Far Cry by Emma Smith
Every Eye by Isobel English
Fidelity by Susan Glaspell
I was hoping to buy the notebook at some stage - so this offer of free notebook is a great bonus. ... Way Down and loved it. I need to find a copy of About a Boy now. I read How to be Good and didn't like it so much, but High Fidelity is one of my all-time favorite books.
I am reading The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor by Sally Armstrong now. So far, so good. ... I'm some strange combination of Oedipa Maas of The Crying of Lot 49, Henry Chinaski of any Bukowski novel, Rob Gordon of High Fidelity, and Mardou of The Subterraneans. In high school, I was oh-so-demurely nicknamed Lolita, which is probably truer than I'd like to admit.
There's some ... In your case, I would recommend highly trying Nick Hornby, especially High Fidelity and About a Boy. You might also enjoy some John Irving possibly the The Cider House Rules. Though not in a contemporary setting Lonesome Dove is very enjoyable and has a theme of unrequited love. ... ... are fodder... (am daughter of Brits who grew up in French Quebec).
How would you classify Nick Hornby? Have read High Fidelity and About a Boy - liked them (former more than latter). ... now, I'm really enjoying it! I do own American Gods, but I haven't gotten around to reading just yet, but I will soon! High Fidelity was great, it made me laugh on several occations! 11) High Fidelity byNick Hornby
A fun and easy read. High Fidelity is one of my favourite movies, I had to read the book it's based upon! I just started reading Neverwhere, after finishing High Fidelity. ... of The Prestige, and I read the book before I saw the movie.
I think the filmmakers did a really good job with High Fidelity. A lot of the writing came straight from the book, and it captured the tone just perfectly. ... book. a couple of my favorite books are ones i read after seeing the movies and realizing that they were based on books (high fidelity, the princess bride), while some of my least favorite movies are ones i've seen after reading and enjoying the book (pretty much any John Grisham ... ... Dreams
Runners-up:
Concrete Island
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Into the Wild
Pleasure of my Company
High Fidelity
God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater
All of these books caused various rumblings within my intellect and emotions. I rarely truly dislike a book, so picking ... My list of favorite music books are:
1: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
2: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
3: Play Bass with Metallica
My list is small because I haven't read that many music related books. But I like what I have read though!
What are your favorite music ... ... wheel of life : a memoir of living and dying
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Chasing the monsoon by Alexander Frater
High fidelity by Nick Hornby
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
The crucible : a play in four acts by Arthur Mi ... 49. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby ... on a book, so I went ahead and read it. And liked it even more than the show... :)
It's more or less on the same vein as High fidelity, well, at least like the film version (which I loved, and is an Americanized version of the book, which, alas, I haven't read.)
Smith even mentioned that ... ... too gritty, but make you think as much as you laugh.
So far these examples I have on my bookshelf:
About a Boy and High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Train Man by Hitori Nakano
Have any other manly books for manly men such as I? ... (7,548 copies)
The golden compass by Philip Pullman (6,948 copies)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (6,628 copies)
High fidelity by Nick Hornby (4,682 copies)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (4,572 copies)
White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (3,591 copies)
Oliver Twis ... ... fantasy or historical, but a few comes to mind:
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi (set in the 70's)
High fidelity by Nick Hornby
Falling angels by Tracy Chevalier (Victorian era) >56: TeacherDad
If you're looking for a cheerful read I wouldn't suggest Oryx and Crake.
>77: studio1
I loved High Fidelity too, but I hated How to be good. I've really enjoyed a lot of Nick Hornby's books and am still a big fan, but I couldn't stand that book.
I just finished L ... I second (Third?) earlier comments on How to be Good. Not Hornby's best work, at all. High Fidelity and About a Boy are much better. ... it into a simple love story. Pride and prejudice I thought was awful, but I love love the Colin Firth TV version.
High Fidelity was ruined for me in the film due to its change of setting. The book is quintissentially English.
I think my main gripe is that things are left out or ... ... By Me, The Body wasn't a bad story, but the movie was so much better.
I definitely agree with your picks ellevee. I loved High Fidelity both the book and film versions.
But you have to admit sometimes a book is just destroyed when they try to make it cross over. Those examples just show that ... ... nial*
Good/Great Movies from Books
* Requiem For A Dream
* Leaving Las Vegas
* Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
* High Fidelity
* About A Boy
* Brokeback Mountain
* Trainspotting
* The Shawshank Redemption
* Wonder Boys
There are dozens more, of course, but those are ... ... Auster
Moonshadow
by J.M. DeMatteis
The Rachel Papers
by Martin Amis
The Sound of Waves
by Yukio Mishima
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
The Man Who Fell to Earth
by Walter Tevis
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
... River by Kate Grenville
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Next week, the list could be different! Hi. I've been a member of the 50 book challenge on livejournal (I'm known as elfycat there) since the beginning of the year. I've set my goal for 100 books this year, not including rereads, graphic novels, or books under 200 pages. I've already met my page goal of 30,000 pages, and as of August 15th ... ... the Georgia Nicolson books by Louise Rennison
Perrin from the Wheel of Time series (I quit halfway through)
Rob from High Fidelity
And special credit for being located in several of the above:
Fitzwilliam Darcy from pride and prejudice especially if played by Matthew McFadyen (he ... ... King made you do it...
Try to avoid calling your daughter Charlie because the girl character named that in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity turns out to be a stuck up bitch (pardon my Australian). However in a different context, it could well give your daughter a strong name that suggests she is ... Actually, I was going to say High Fidelity would be on my list of worsts.
Also, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, The Secret Life of Bees, and of course The Da Vinci Code. >138: cabegley, I agree with your assessment of How to be Good. I thoroughly enjoyed About a Boy and High Fidelity, so was disappointed with How to be Good. ... when I was a teenager. Oh, I also enjoyed some works by Nick Hornby, particularly How to be Good, About a Boy and High Fidelity. Didn't care much for the movie versions of the latter two, though.
... through - Owen Letcher (Africa)
When There Was Steam - Tony Barfield (footplate memories)
And of course The Blackpool High-flyer railway detective trilogy (fiction) by Andrew Martin (see a separate thread on this group). Also various books by Paul Theroux.
Hmm - ... ... have an actual method for sorting, but it makes sense to me. I like to say they're shelved autobiographically in homage to High Fidelity. I do the same with with movies and music, incidentally. ... of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Le ... ... little tedious with all the war bits…I had to do a bit of skimming to keep interested. Worth the effort, though.
3. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
I’ve never seen the movie, but I will now. Fast read, witty, and light. Lots of fun British humor and odd words to ponder. Basically ... ... that maybe when it was translated into english it lost something that the movie was able to put back into it.
As for High Fidelity I read the book a few years before the movie came out, and I liked it, but didn't love it. The last half of the book was so damned boring. I thought the movie ... ... a baby. I read the book some time later and enjoyed it, too. I can't really say I like one more than the other, though.
High Fidelity - I honestly haven't read the book because I haven't been able to find it used for a decent price, but I love the movie. I agree that it wouldn't be such a ... ... like these can help you clarify your thoughts on the subject.
Look at the compulsive list-makers in Nick Hornby's High Fidelity - they do little BUT generate arbitrary lists, simply as a means of generating arguments. ... was just too tempting to resist.
Picked up:
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond Feist
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
...for only $ ... There's a passage early in High Fidelity where Rob describes his typical obsessed customer. I thought it was spooky that I had searched for the very same record in the very same neighborhood.
I also share Rob's dawning understanding that women are generally much too good for men, much better ... Message 25, kperfetto: I wasn't quite sure if I liked High Fidelity when I read it. It actually seemed quite sad to me. Then I got my Other Half to read it, and he was sitting there chuckling away! When I asked him what he was laughing about, he'd read me an extract, and there was something ... ... Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved. Just finished (relatively speaking. I'm finished with it, anyway) Nick Hornby's High Fidelity, the book everyone tells me I should read. Note to self: stop listening to everyone. ... of a children's fiction character I'm like.
the fiction character I most wish I was is probably Rob Fleming from High Fidelity. I have 4 Persephones: The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Village by Marghanita Lanski, Fidelity by Susan Glaspell, and Marjory Fleming by Oriel Malet. Of those, I've read The Village and really liked it. I think the Britain->US transfer in High Fidelity is possibly the most successful ever and I rate both book and film highly.
A case of mixed success is the bloody awful adaptation of The Beach. (Besides completely trashing the story by totally inverting aspects such as the main character who ... ... was a good book, but the film was even better - one of the most intelligent children's films I've ever seen
agree that High Fidelity was great as a book and a film. Personally I didn't mind so much that was transferred to the US, though it worked really well. I agree on High Fidelity, I loved it as a book and a movie. I am a big John Cusack fan, and Jack Black was excellent as were others. I thought the move to America worked, but I think I would still like to see a British version. ... like Kubrick adapt it, there's a very good chance his vision is going to end up much more intriguing. And it did.
High Fidelity and Fight Club were two others: I had a lot harder time sympathizing with Rob from HF the book than from the movie: Cusack just seems so much more likable. A ... Ok, High Fidelity - book vs. movie; which wins? Strengths / weaknesses of each? ... I like Greil Marcus's writing quite a lot. I'm also interested in fiction that centers around music: The Commitments, High Fidelity, etc. I'm currently working on Doyle's Oh, Play That Thing, which features Louis Armstrong as a central character. I'm interested in recommendations in ... For good movies based on good books I always think of The Name of the Rose, The Princess Bride, High Fidelity.
A couple of good little-known ones are The Day of the Locust and El callejón de los milagros, a Mexican adaptation of Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz.
For good books ...
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