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Synopsis
Nick Hornby's collection of the essays he published in the literary magazine The Believer divides the books in his house into two piles: "Books Bought" and "Books Read." As Hornby makes his way through them, some get read with enthusiasm and some with increasing displeasure; some he abandons halfway through and some stay on the shelf untouched. Throughout, he expresses his opinions with humor and a refreshing lack of predictability, always keeping in mind the incomparable pleasures that reading can bring.
| Size | | Length: | 143 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading--about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time."
Industry Reviews
"What's most valuable about this collection...is that Hornby, by dint of his sensibility and the variety of his choices, shows that the distinction still made between reading for the sake of 'enrichment' (as that gasbag Harold Bloom insists upon) and reading for pleasure is a phony divide....What Hornby does so beautifully here is to assume the intelligence of his readers, and to obliterate the literature/pleasure divide by acting, sensibly, as if it didn't exist."
Salon - Charles Taylor (12/09/2004)
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