Attention YA Librarians
That's right, Nick Hornby plans to introduce the crushing feelings of inadequacy felt by introspective single men everywhere to a whole new audience!
And in honor of that endeavor, the top 5 reasons I intend to love this book:
5. It can't get any worse than "A Long Way Down"
4. If it's ever made into a movie, there's no way (excluding the invention of a time machine or a massive collective suspension of disbelief) that it could star Jimmy Fallon or Drew Barrymore. It does, however, sound like the perfecct vehicle for that adorable boy from "Love Actually"...
3. Nick Hornby has always made me feel good by realizing that men are, for the most part, just as basketcase-y as women. If he can work the same magic by convincing me that adolescent boys had a similarly traumatizing time of it, count me in!
2. The main character "finds his way through conversations with a larger-than-life poster of his idol, champion skater Tony Hawk." Nothing makes for better reading than emotional self realizations that come with the aid of inanimate objects.
1. Please, it's Nick Hornby. I'd probably read it if it were printed on the back of a sugar cereal box...with a fun maze...and promise of free gift inside.
3 comments:
Is it wrong that my poster hero was Macho Man Randy Savage? Ohhhh....Yea!!!
Hornby is one of my favorite writers!! Granted, I haven't read A Long Way Down yet--not sure I want to, from what I've been told--but I would also probably read his stuff if he became a cereal box writer. Since a chunk of High Fidelity consisted of Rob's flashbacks to his adolescent life, it shouldn't be hard for Hornby to write a whole book from that perspective!
Yay Nick Hornby! I'm sure he'll do a great job--there's always room for more books for boys. Although I must say there were points while reading High Fidelity that I was shocked--"That's what they're thinking!?!?!"
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