This is the one that explains how to be good.
I really thought that I was going to be joining the Nick Hornby fan club when I picked up How To Be Good. I’ve never read anything by him, but from what I’ve heard, I thought that he was going to be someone I would read thoroughly and often. Instead, I think that this book should be re-named to How to Waste a Week Of Your Life. I was really disappointed. After all of the to-do about About a Boy and High Fidelity I was expecting so much more out of this.
This book started out with promise. What happens when the crankiest man in the world becomes generous, caring and kind? Spoiler alert…nothing, because Hornby was too lazy to write an adequate ending.
It’s a story of annoying characters that just get more and more annoying you get deeper and deeper into the book. Do not waste your time.
If I never read another Nick Hornby book, fine by me.
For those of you keeping count: This is the 2nd book I’ve read in 2010.
This is been on my list for some time now, and I got it for Christmas from Daniel, so I’m finally going to get to it.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:08 am
I read Nick Hornby’s “A Long Way Down” a couple years ago and it wasn’t bad. It was about a group of people that happened to decide to commit suicide by jumping off the same building on the very same night. It was interesting enough but I haven’t gotten around to reading him again so maybe I kind of agree with you.