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Nick Hornby

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Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck. Review quote Funny, wise and true -- Roddy Doyle show more. He lives in Highbury, north London. Book ratings by Goodreads. Apart from Arsenal and football, Nick Hornby has done well to extend the dialogue and provide opinions on plenty of topics associated with society - hooliganism, relationships, money and how it splits society, safety and the role of administration in it. It feels good to be a fan. I wanted to like this more. Nick Hornby has an excellent writing style, is very witty and explores an unusual addiction, that of an obsessed sports fan.

However, I am not a soccer enthusiast and, until I picked up the book, I'd never even heard of Arsenal Football club. What interested me was the effect of his obsession on Nick's relationships: Hornby showed glimpses of those and the interactions were intriguing, but then he'd go back to des I wanted to like this more. Hornby showed glimpses of those and the interactions were intriguing, but then he'd go back to describing some goal, or a rained out game or some other trivial matter and I'd be bored.

Most of the time, Nick doesn't even seem to enjoy watching Arsenal. The stadium is old, the crowd is often dangerous there are several accounts of people getting crushed to death or trampled at these games , the tickets expensive, and the effects on his health are scary.

Apparently, to be a soccer fan, you have to smoke, drink a lot and eat a lot of fatty food. He loses friends, breaks up with girls, and misses family events because he has to be at every single home Arsenal game. At one point, he finds a therapist which is not too surprising.

Hitching your happiness to the sucdess or failure of someone else is never a good idea. Recommended for a particular audience -- the sports nuts and addicts. In de tweede helft van de jaren tachtig was ik heel even een voetballiefhebber. Ik ging niet naar wedstrijden kijken, maar had een vage voorliefde voor Club Brugge en kocht regelmatig Voetbalmagazine.

Geen idee waarom net die club. Waterschei en Winterslag betekenden niet veel meer, Standard lag in Frankrijk en Anderlecht, dat was Anderlecht, iets voor mietjes. Het begon in de tijd van Papin en eindigde ergens rond het vertrek van Frank Farina, begin jaren negentig. En toen was de liefde op, wer In de tweede helft van de jaren tachtig was ik heel even een voetballiefhebber. En toen was de liefde op, werd voetbal volledig van de kaart geveegd door muziek en boeken en meisjes en steeds explosievere aanvaringen met the axis of evil pa-ma-school.

Het stak nu en dan nog de kop op, vooral met een WK of EK dat van heb ik grotendeels gevolgd vanop een ziekenhuisbed , maar eigenlijk interesseert het me al ruim een decennium geen ene bal meer. Eigenlijk geldt dat voor zowat alle sporten het zicht van volwassen mannen die achter een bal hollen heeft nu eerder een Looney Tunes-dimensie , al maak ik soms een uitzondering voor wielrennen.

Fever Pitch is een boek over voetbal. Het kreeg geweldig positieve kritieken, werd verfilmd, ging meer dan een miljoen keer over de toonbank en wordt intussen beschouwd als een klassieker van de komische literatuur.

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In tegenstelling tot heel wat van die commentatoren op de achterflap heb ik eigenlijk niet zo heel veel gelachen met het boek laat staan tranen gelaten. Hornby is grappig, innemend en charmant, maar laten gieren? Het zou waarschijnlijk grappiger zijn om een boek over voetbal te lezen dat geschreven werd door een outsider. Toch is het ook voor de lezer die niets met voetbal te maken heeft best een aanrader.

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Hornby kan immers heel erg goed schrijven over zijn passie iets wat hij overdeed in High Fidelity, dat net een iets hogere herkenbaarheidsfactor had , met een combinatie van zelfrelativering, obsessiviteit en dwaze liefde. Hij smijt met namen, jaartallen en scores, die op enkele uitzonderingen na geen betekenis hebben, maar ze vormen dan ook niet de kern van het boek, want die zit vervat in de onvoorwaardelijke toewijding van een man aan iets wat zijn leven rijker maakt.

Het boek beslaat de periode van de late jaren zestig tot en volgt de ups en downs van de club en parallel ook het leven van Hornby , de sterspelers, de net niet-verhalen, maar ook de kleine dingen: Het mooist zijn natuurlijk de beschrijvingen van succesperiodes: Het zorgt er niet voor dat je je als lezer in het stadion waant, maar het gevoel dat erbij komt kijken is ei zo na tastbaar gemaakt.

Bij de beste hoofdstukken horen ook die over de keerzijde van de medaille: Fever Pitch is enkel een must voor voetbalgekken, maar ook daarnaast een boek dat voldoende bevlogen en gepassioneerd geschreven is om een paar uur te boeien. En vast een pak interessanter dan al die beker- en testmatchen op de buis. Probablemente una de las frases del libro que mejor exprese a que me refiero, es cuando dice: Me preocupa la perspectiva de morir a mitad de temporada Simplemente genial en esos aspectos de forofismo, el libro ha estado descatalogado hasta hace poco, pero ahora en acaban de reeditarlo.

The two Nick Hornby books most people are familiar with — High Fidelity and About a Boy — focus on the lives of two different thirtysomethings traveling the same meaningless path to nowhere. Fever Pitch wasn't what I expected, based on those other two Hornby novels I've read. While Arsenal and soccer are Hornby's obsession, knowledge or interest in either one isn't necessary for readers to enjoy Fever Pitch's interesting study in mania and male behavior and enlightening history of Arsenal and how one young boy found his identity in a crap football team.

One of my favorite lines: Admitted, I'm not a big Hornby fan. A friend encouraged me to read Fever Pitch anyway, claiming it's different from Hornby's other works. I still see big parallels with High Fidelity though, as both books feature the same 'trick' in which the author takes a mainstream subculture pop music, football and sells it to its participants as a niche that the masses will never underst Admitted, I'm not a big Hornby fan.

I still see big parallels with High Fidelity though, as both books feature the same 'trick' in which the author takes a mainstream subculture pop music, football and sells it to its participants as a niche that the masses will never understand. The reader then will identify with it 'Finally an author who gets me! Emo reading for the white boy.

But all of this could just be my envy of course, since in both instances Hornby takes a topic I like —I might even say: I accepted that I'm not a real pop fan, and now I also have to acknowledge that my love for football is just a poor imitation of the real thing. Thank you for ruining it for me, Nick. Of two things I am certain: I love Nick Hornby.

If you love both, boy are you going to enjoy this book. If you only love soccer If you only love the writer, then like me you may absolutely scratch your head over some of the behaviors detailed in this book, you may get bored of the endless stream of team players and stats, but you will truly appreciate the biography that is woven in.

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For Hornby, soccer doesn't j Of two things I am certain: For Hornby, soccer doesn't just represent a sport and an obsession; different matches and different moments in a history of loving the game represent a parent's divorce, a new family in France, a struggle to become a writer, a struggle with suburban depression, break-ups with girls, etc.

Some of the anecdotes were enjoyable, and I can at least partly relate. I understand what it means to claim personal ownership of a team, of its wins and losses, of its players. But honestly his utter obsession missing weddings for games, and not even important games is probably beyond the scope of most people's understanding. This was by no means my favorite Hornby book, but his voice and humor were present within, and for that I give it the stars it deserves.

Nick Hornby has a fantastically readable style. But his sometimes middle-class moralising take on football culture is a bit tea and biscuits in a world of as was then dinosaur burgers and MRM meat pies. Came out at exactly the right time, when football was coming back into fashion.

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But for me who mourns the passing of the terraces, and stadiums filled with fire stone brim, and lunatic midfielders, and players who could tactically change the game midway through the first Nick Hornby has a fantastically readable style. But for me who mourns the passing of the terraces, and stadiums filled with fire stone brim, and lunatic midfielders, and players who could tactically change the game midway through the first half when they saw the manager's plan wasn't working, well, reading Fever Pitch is like a reading an unwelcome prediction.

I'm afraid no offense to the man that the game itself has gone to the Nick Hornby's of this world. Saying that, he's a wonderfully passionate nut. And it's a great meditation on the nonsense of obsession. This was probably the absolute worst Hornby book for me to try first. First off, I have no familiarity with what Hornby and most of the rest of the world calls football.

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Beyond that, I've never really had any interest in sports whatsoever. I had hoped that the book would transcend that for me and speak to my own obsessions, but that never happened for me. There are some moments of insight and humor that I liked, but they were few and for the most part this book seemed disconnected and uninterest This was probably the absolute worst Hornby book for me to try first.

There are some moments of insight and humor that I liked, but they were few and for the most part this book seemed disconnected and uninteresting to me. Other people have really liked it so either something just didn't work for me or they had sports interests that they managed to work some connection into. For me, I just didn't dig it at all. Instead, they forged ahead, leaving behind the hyped Christmas Day game against the NBA champion Celtics, living in the now and not Thursday's big-time win over Boston.

The plan was for the Lakers to build on the momentum of the Boston win, to jump over Golden State on Sunday night, which they did in throttling the Warriors, , at Staples Center. This was the same Warriors team that upset the Celtics on Friday night in Oakland.

Soccer debate at a fever pitch. If I invite David Beckham over to the house to watch the paint dry on the my walls, will it make it more exciting? I don't think so. Bill Plaschke hates soccer. At least now that he has done his token column on Beckham, he can go back to kissing the butt of the Lakers. Moore hype of healthcare film hits fever pitch. Blending a movie premiere and a political rally with a savvy that even Gov.

Arnold Schwarzenegger might admire, documentary filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore stormed through California's Capitol on Tuesday to promote his new film, "SiCKO," his indictment of the country's healthcare system. Sacramento is not usually a first-choice locale for movie premieres -- 's "Akeelah and the Bee" was the last. February 6, Geoff Boucher. This week the Bee Gees and Warner Music Group will make it clear that, with the looming 30th anniversary of "Saturday Night Fever," they expect the group's classic disco hits will be staying very alive in the pop consciousness.

Warner's Rhino Entertainment plans to announce that it has a new worldwide deal in place to revisit the original master recordings and unreleased material from the music library of the Bee Gees, who were the Brothers Gibb: Barry, Robin and the late Maurice. The contrast could not have been starker.

Moments after the final gun, after losing to Texas, , in the Rose Bowl -- and losing a chance at a third consecutive national championship -- the USC team trudged off the field, more than a few heads down. Hours earlier, these same players had crowded into a conference room at their team hotel for a raucous midday meeting. Forget the stereotypical image of a team, silent and anxious, hours before a game.

Cricket Victory Lifts Spirits of a Nation. Millions of pounds were bet on the outcome. People jammed pubs and skipped work to watch the action or listened to the play on their computers. Tony Blair interrupted a speech on education to read out the score at tea time. But for once, it wasn't soccer that was bewitching all of Britain.

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