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High Fidelity, Nick Hornby

I don't know enough pop music to get the relevant jokes in most of this novel; but that's all right, I still haven't found out what Yonge had against an embroidered church cushion.

Summary: Feckless slacker makes a fool of himself, insults people, is finally rescued by (more than one) girlfriend who seems too good for him... I assume that, like Bridget Jones' Diary, this makes sense because we can assume that the narrator is self-denigrating wherever possible.

My other half found it disconcerting that the hero is only saved by having his girlfriend run his life without asking. True. On the other hand, more growth in the time given would have been even less believable.

ISBN: 0-575-40018-8

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