tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153364.post2191467314641993750..comments2023-10-15T03:13:03.093-05:00Comments on Stay-At-Home Indie Pop: Bad Books on the Beach: No. 2 – ‘Juliet, Naked’ by Nick HornbyIan Plenderleithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08512357220650578961noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153364.post-76479993529251236932011-08-12T19:55:16.298-05:002011-08-12T19:55:16.298-05:00Well done Ian. I spent a goodly portion of this b...Well done Ian. I spent a goodly portion of this book thinking, wait, but, what? I stopped reading and finished it with an audiobook version from the library on my commute. Somehow I still felt cheated.Jackson Duinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06002985873268109983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153364.post-18814231611080939072011-08-05T16:38:29.360-05:002011-08-05T16:38:29.360-05:00Excellent piece, Ian.
Your final paragraph - with...Excellent piece, Ian.<br /><br />Your final paragraph - with very appropriate music analogy - sums up Hornby's writing career nicely. Curiously the same paragraph, and the idea of peaking with your first album then going downhill, brought to mind Ben Folds with whom Horby collaborated on an excrutiatingly dull album a few months ago.Tony Currannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153364.post-83136749142805336192011-08-05T14:37:36.665-05:002011-08-05T14:37:36.665-05:00I read the Fallada book last year - astonishing bo...I read the Fallada book last year - astonishing book considering that he's reported to have completed it in 24 days. But it's real genius is in replicating the crushing claustrophobia of living under an insane, all-pervasive regime of terror, from first page to last. One of the great German novels of the 20th century.Ian Plenderleithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08512357220650578961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153364.post-27506625023994548482011-08-05T12:25:24.463-05:002011-08-05T12:25:24.463-05:00Good to hear a writer analyse another, especially ...Good to hear a writer analyse another, especially on plot idiocies. I know enough women who've stuck with dull men for no good reason to dismiss the portrait of Annie as you recount it, but you're bang on about the lazy device of the hapless man - it's now become a cliche that has no place other than the BBC Comedy & Drama Dept. I enjoyed Fever Pitch and Hi Fidelity too, found No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.com