Friday 56 in High Fidelity

Ok, I like to occasional female chick lit "fluff," but is there a male equivalent?

I sort of found that in this week's book. And if last week's post was uberly feminine, here's one the polar opposite! Nick Hornby's debut novel, High Fidelity had me ambivalent but changed my mind a few chapters in. It's witty, it's funny (as in laugh-out-loud funny!), it made me cringe at times, and I must say I now have a better insight into the male mind. Oh, and I could actually relate to some of the songs - gah - this is my generation?!

Here's Amazon's quick take: It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music.


Friday 56 is easy:

• Grab a book, any book. Turn to page 56. 
• Find any sentence that grabs you. (Yes, I cheat sometimes and put a little more than a sentence!) 
• Post it. 
• Add your (url) post in Freda's Voice Linky.

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