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| 1. |  | Slam from Riverhead Trade Price: $10.78 Customer Review:  Sam is sixteen years old and is about to become a dad. What follows is Sam telling his story, from falling in and out of teenage love with Alicia, to attempting to run away from home, to facing his responsibilities, dealing with Alicia's snobby parents and his mother (who had him when she was... |
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| 2. |  | Shakespeare Wrote for Money from McSweeney's Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  "Shakespeare Wrote For Money" is Nick Hornby's latest and last collection of his "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns from "The Believer Magazine." The format, a monthly informal essay that begins with a list of books bought and a list of those actually read, is conversational and personal. The first... |
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| 3. |  | High Fidelity: A Novel from Riverhead Trade Price: $10.40 Customer Review: Nick Hornby writes a winning novel about three young slackers. He pokes gentle fun at them as they navigate the bewildering puzzles of romance and life. This is one of Hornby's earlier books, and his tone is not as polished as it will become. Still, he offers up his hilarious take on male-female... |
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| 4. |  | Fever Pitch from Riverhead Trade Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Brillant book... Almost wet my pants a few times. I relate a million percent to the obsession... Its football... Its my life... And I am American... |
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| 5. |  | A Long Way Down from Riverhead Trade Price: $11.20 Customer Review:  Although I just finished the book two days ago, it took me a few minutes to remember what happens at the very end of A Long Way Down. Nick Hornby's novel begins, essentially, with its climax. Four people decide independently to go to a certain London rooftop, called Topper's House, to kill... |
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| 6. |  | Songbook from Riverhead Trade Price: $11.20 Customer Review: If you liked Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity, chances are that you'll also enjoy Songbook, his collection of essays on specific songs, originally written when he was a pop music critic for The New Yorker. Like Rob, the protagonist of High Fidelity, Hornby himself is a music fan who links... |
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| 7. | [no image] | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dict 4e Flexicover from Oxford University Press Customer Review:  I bought it for CD-ROM with sound tracks of native speaker. But, it is not work in mynew laptop. It took 2 minute to load the program. And always said InternalError!!! after I want to search a word. I though that it is the best seller product with the best quality. But this CD-ROM changed my... |
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| 8. |  | Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me from Grand Central Publishing Price: $9.99 Customer Review:  OK, humor is an individual thing, but most of these essays are not funny (although they try to be). The bottom line: The book isn't funny; it isn't illuminating; it isn't worth reading. |
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| 9. |  | Click from Arthur A. Levine Books Price: $11.55 Customer Review: After putting this one down, I was left with a problem: how do I review a book written by 10 different authors? You can't expect the same things you do from a standard story. The criteria for "good" and "bad" has to be different. Like continuity for instance. The ten chapters in "Click" were each... |
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| 10. |  | How to Be Good from Riverhead Trade Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Usually a Nick Hornby fan, but not this time. Besides being meandering, plotless, bizarre and implausible the characters are all quite dislikable, most notably the narrator. While the other characters seem to have a character arc, no matter how unrealistic it may be, the narrator remains hateful,... |
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| 11. |  | Housekeeping vs. the Dirt from McSweeney's Price: $11.20 Customer Review: I always used to love NH, especially his characters, but in Housekeeping vs Dirt one gets a sense of the man himself. That's the appeal, of course, except I don't find what I read there remotely appealing. Hornby is the archtypal Thatcher era liberal. I say Thatcher era, because his current stance... |
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| 12. |  | The Polysyllabic Spree from McSweeney's, Believer Books Price: $11.20 Customer Review: Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree is an interesting look at what one man buys and reads in a given month. The commentary about his choices and his reads are fantastically amusing. It's good to see that us readers and writers are not alone in our efforts to catalogue our finds and keep a running... |
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| 13. |  | Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, ... Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out from McSweeney's Price: $14.96 Customer Review: Great gift for young readers but the complete-the-story contest offer, which would be fun experience, is expired. |
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| 14. |  | About a Boy (Movie Tie-In) (Movie Tie-In) from Riverhead Trade Price: $11.90 Customer Review: I enjoyed High Fidelity immensely. I picked up this book because I thought it would be a good read about a slacker finding love. I couldn't make it through the first 50 pages. The working mum, the hipster. Too cliche. The story unfolded too quickly, and as soon as it did, I lost interest. |
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| 15. |  | Summer Lightning (Penguin Modern Classics) from Penguin Classics Customer Review: P. G. Wodehouse is at his most delightful in this generational romp at Beautiful Blandings Castle, where Lord Emsworth is grieving, first, the dispossession of his beloved prize pig which was somehow stolen in at least four distinct acts of thievery and, second, the untimely return of his erstwhile... |
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| 16. |  | My Favorite Year: A Collection of Football Writing from Orion Publishing Price: $10.87 | |
| 17. |  | About a Boy from Penguin Books Ltd Price: $11.88 Customer Review: It's a great story about the coming of age of two males - 12 year old Marcus, son of a weird, New Age London mom - and Will, 36 year old bachelor boy living off his father's royalties for a notorious Christmas jingle. It is unclear which is the more mature as Will joins SPAT (Single Parents, Alone... |
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| 18. |  | Heavy Weather (Penguin Modern Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $12.81 Customer Review: PART OF THE BLANDINGS CASTLE SAGA. GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU. WHENEVER YOU FEEL BLUE READ 2 PAGES BEFORE SLEEPING. |
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| 19. |  | Speaking with the Angel from Riverhead Trade Price: $11.86 Customer Review: Quite simply, I've never enjoyed a book of short stories more than this one. Reading it made a train trip through Europe even more perfect than it already was, and because of it I discovered Dave Eggers... |
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| 20. |  | Fever Pitch from Penguin Books Ltd Price: $12.81 Customer Review: I pretty much hate all forms of football. The fact that I read a book about football (to the British, that is: the rest of the world calls it soccer) from cover to cover, smirking, chuckling and at times laughing out loud, attests, once again, to the talent of Nick Hornby as a wordsmith. This book... |
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| 21. |  | Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More from Da Capo Price: $16.00 Customer Review: Nick Hornby opens his introductory essay to Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001 (Da Capo Press) with an admission. He was in his fifth decade before he got his first regular music-writing gig, for The New Yorker. His first fax from a major label was a press release saying that a leading female artist... |
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| 22. | [no image] | 31 Songs from Penguin Books Ltd Customer Review: 31 chapters, 31 or 32 (or more?) songs, 31 occasions to think about how beautiful, tragic, absurd, cosy the life can be. I strongly recommend that you read this book, whether you are a music-addicted whose life is framed by the sounds you listen to or not. Wheter music speaks from a deeper part... |
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| 23. |  | About a Boy: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Script) from Newmarket Press Price: $15.16 Customer Review: Much of the charm of this movie rests with the charm of the two leads, but it's interesting to see how a US writer/director duo, Chris and Paul Weitz, tackle a very English project, adapting a very English novel, especially when their previous movie is so different to this one. How does it look on... |
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| 24. |  | Fever Pitch Hb from Gollancz | |
| 25. |  | Fever Pitch from Penguin Books Ltd Customer Review: I pretty much hate all forms of football. The fact that I read a book about football (to the British, that is: the rest of the world calls it soccer) from cover to cover, smirking, chuckling and at times laughing out loud, attests, once again, to the talent of Nick Hornby as a wordsmith. This book... |
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| 26. |  | About a Boy (Penguin Joint Venture Readers) from Penguin Price: $7.95 | |
| 27. |  | How to be Good from Penguin Audiobooks | |
| 28. |  | About a Boy from Distribooks Price: $18.21 Customer Review: Nick Hornby is perhaps the premier writer of lad-lit, the male counterpart of chick-lit. And "About A Boy" is one of his best novels, with its sensitive looks not only at male fears, but at how they relate to women and children. It's a far smarter, wittier book than you'd think. Will is a... |
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| 29. | [no image] | High Fidelity from Riverhead Books | |
| 30. |  | Speaking with the Angel. from Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., GmbH & Co. | |
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