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Sono Tutte Storie (2012)

by Nick Hornby(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8823500907 (ISBN13: 9788823500907)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Guanda

series

Stuff I've Been Reading

review 1: I didn't enjoy this column collection as much as Housekeeping vs The Dirt, but I do still like Nick Hornby. (He's pretty darn likable.) This collection was more serious than anything else I've read by him and I did find myself skimming in places, but he redeems himself in passages like this one:"If I were walking home down a dark alley, and I got jumped by a gang of literary hooligans who held me up against a wall and threatened me with a beating unless I told them who my favourite writer was... Well, I wouldn't tell them. I'd take the beating, rather than crudify my long and sophisticated relationship with great books in that way. [...] If, however, there were simply too many of them, I would eventually, and reluctantly, cough up the name of Charles Dickens."The point ... moreis, I'd read the others first, but I'd still read this one. Nick Hornby is important to readers and writers alike.
review 2: I love books about books. In this case it's actually a collection of columns by Nick Hornby (author of High Fidelity, one of my favorites) about what books he's bought and read on a monthly basis. Apart from adding a number of books to my amazon wishlist, it opened my mind to types of books I might not have been interested in. Not to mention the enjoyment of hearing one of my favorite authors talk about other books he's read and what get's him excited in the literary world. There are three other volumes of these columns and I will most definitely get them all at some point. less

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