High Fidelity by Nick Hornby"Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?
Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do."
Genres: Fiction
Also by this author: More Baths, Less Talking
This is the first Nick Hornby book I have read so far, a well-written, enjoyable book about a “thirty-six-year-old with no wife, family, girlfriend, or money, anyway.” There is also a movie which I will be watching soon.
“You know the worst thing about being rejected? The lack of control.”
“Try dividing people you walk past into one of life’s four categories – happily coupled, unhappily coupled, single and desperate – and you’ll find you won’t be able to do it. Or rather you could do it, but you would have no confidence in your choices. This seems incredible to me. The most important thing in life, you can’t tell whether people have it or not.”
