DeVincentis and Steve Pink, who also co-wrote GROSSE POINT BLANK, and Scott Rosenberg), and director Stephen Frears are portraying is a very particular type of 'music geek' the type who is a snob about music. First off, I've read one comment which claims it stereotypes 'music geeks.' The type of people Hornby, Cusack, his co-writers(D.V. When I heard John Cusack was adapting it and moving the action to Chicago(from London in the novel), I was a little worried, because I worry about changing things during adaptations for arbitrary reasons, but I needn't have worried though I have a few quibbles, which we'll get to later, Cusack and Co. 'A triumphant first novel.I read the novel when it first came out because the title intrigued me, and I found it quite good. Funny and wise, sweet and true' Independent 'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. 'It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature' Independent on Sunday This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.Ī million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura.

He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. Nick Hornby's internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.ĭo you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?

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