Nick Hornby's Top 3 Books

Few authors as faithful to the closest reality as Nick Hornby. It is not so much a question of circumscribing it to a crude realism, which also, but we refer more to the approach to that kind of social anthropology that makes up a good social chronicle narrative.

With the contradictions and paradoxical interventions of the human being inserted in society with the shoehorn of general morality, customs, customs and laws.

The point is to achieve all this from a fictional narrative that is suggestive. AND Nick Hornby gets it. In the first place, because the departure from rhetorical idealizations is in tune with our lifestyle.

In the second instance because Hornby's characters can become petty by simple survival, interested and seemingly cynical or even cruel.

But isn't that being human? At what moment is our essence goodness beyond the distorting mirrors of our own idealization?

Ultimately, stories with that essentially human role, capable of representing the best and worst of the same person in consecutive moments, end up finding the perfect wave for any reader.

A reader who discovers symmetries in characters located in England in the case of this author, but with identical replicas of the real world in Spain or Japan (to name three countries with different cultures)

Thus, in the end it is about reading and enjoying a staging in which others like you experience things like you. The tragic, the failure, the loss ... the human is soaked above all of that. And nothing better than to represent that kind of losers that we are all in power to attract attention to some protagonists made anti-heroes.

If I also tell you that Hornby's books are agile to read Because of that same prominence of dialogue or ad hoc reflection, and that there is always that scathing criticism in a very careful styling for each occasion, I am sure that you will launch without further delay to know his work.

Top 3 Recommended Books By Nick Hornby

High Fidelity

A novel both for music lovers and for that geek that we all carry inside as long as we end up contemplating the anomaly that we represent in the face of any type of social imposition.

Thirty-year-old Rob Fleming is one of those Peter Pan who owes his labeling to his orbit around music and hope for the revival of his disastrous record store. Laura has left him and he takes the opportunity to enjoy his friends full time as separated from reality as he is thanks to music and cinema.

It's not that Rob is unhappy with his colleagues Barry and Dick. Sometimes there is no way to just let things flow to end up finding new love options. Marie is an interesting girl who seems to share, this time, a passion for music.

But the traces of life are inscrutable. And Laura returns when no one expected her anymore. Choosing at thirty-six is ​​more difficult than choosing at twenty-something. And we are all continually procrastinating in this procrastinating lifestyle of the essentials.

But, Rob also makes us consider the fact that, once the time for decisions is over, we may discover that nothing was so bad. And then yes we may be freer even to slam against the wall of reality while the bars of our favorite song sound.

High Fidelity

Plummeting

In the Olympic exercise of suicide from above there is something of a search for a final epic, or of improvisation due to lack of resources. But hey, in the case of Martín, Maureen, Jess and JJ the matter reaches limits of orgiastic celebration of death.

The tower of suicides brings them together by chance during a New Year's Eve (what better time to leave the world than at the end of the year?). But the problem is that, since the world is world there are aspects that the human being carries in privacy, the matters of the bathroom and the matters of the soul. Killing yourself is of the second type.

Whoever wants to go will do it alone. And whoever does it with great dramatizations is that they are not very clear about it yet. So, having found themselves in the tower with the same shared will, none of them are thrown into the void by overbooking. And yet the four of them strengthen ties and postpone their death until Valentine's Day. A month and a half until the new date in which each one must leave everything well tied.

Plummeting

A great guy

His most tender work. Will is a new Rob, the archetype of the endless teenager who rises to forty without laying the foundations of an adult existence. Although at heart Will is that other Peter Pan for very different reasons.

He lives comfortably and has never needed to work. The fortune of his physical attractiveness and his know-how to be up-to-date gives him that halo of the winner, only that the trophy of his own life escapes him without him noticing it in the whirlwind of his days.

Lover in very different beds, Will ends up becoming a conqueror of single mothers, his most coveted piece. Until he runs into Marcus, a 12-year-old boy with whom Will will establish a very special connection that will lead him to what he was and what he is, advancing relentlessly through his future calendar of missed opportunities. Will and Marcus are two wonderful protagonists towards the consciousness of living.

A great guy
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