Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of question...
Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon. His girlfriend has just left him. Can he really go on living in a poky flat surrounded by vinyl and CDs or should he get a real home, a real family and a real job? Perhaps most difficult of all, will he ever be able to stop thinking about life in terms of the All Time Top Five bands, books, films, songs – even now that he’s been dumped again, the top five break-ups? Memorable, sad and very, very funny, this is the truest book you will ever read about the things that really matter.
作者简介
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Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient o...
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. A film written by Hornby, An Education – shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony that fall. That same September, the author published his latest novel, Juliet, Naked to wide acclaim. Hornby lives in North London.
You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk. — Rob 像这样的场景处处可见：年轻的中产阶级开始发现自己的生活令人失望，在餐厅、夜店、酒吧大声喧嚷。...
2017-01-08 16:27:53
You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk. — Rob
像这样的场景处处可见：年轻的中产阶级开始发现自己的生活令人失望，在餐厅、夜店、酒吧大声喧嚷。
“来看我啊！我不是你想像中的那么无聊！我是懂得享受人生的！”
可怜虫。
我很庆幸自己学会待在家里生闷气。
最精彩的一段话：Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-begining problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about?
2015-03-08 13:32:38
最精彩的一段话：Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-begining problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about?
And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I ever say to somebody I have been reasonably close to before our lives take different directions. Weird, eh? You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown . . . and then, bang, that's it. Gone forever. An...
2013-02-06 09:34:58
And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I ever say to somebody I have been reasonably close to before our lives take different directions. Weird, eh?
You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown . . . and then, bang, that's it. Gone forever.
And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.
Birthdays should be suspended in years like this one: there should be a law, of man if not of nature, that you are only allowed to age when things are ticking along nicely. What do I want to be thirty-six for now? I don't. It's not convenient. Rob Fleming's life is frozen at the moment, and he refuses to get any older. Please retain all cards, cakes, and presents for use on another occasion. 以...
2012-02-03 23:11:26
Birthdays should be suspended in years like this one: there should be a law, of man if not of nature, that you are only allowed to age when things are ticking along nicely. What do I want to be thirty-six for now? I don't. It's not convenient. Rob Fleming's life is frozen at the moment, and he refuses to get any older. Please retain all cards, cakes, and presents for use on another occasion.引自 Twenty-four
[Laura]"You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening."
2011-11-22 20:33:00
[Laura]"You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening."
You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk. — Rob 像这样的场景处处可见：年轻的中产阶级开始发现自己的生活令人失望，在餐厅、夜店、酒吧大声喧嚷。...
2017-01-08 16:27:53
You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk. — Rob
像这样的场景处处可见：年轻的中产阶级开始发现自己的生活令人失望，在餐厅、夜店、酒吧大声喧嚷。
“来看我啊！我不是你想像中的那么无聊！我是懂得享受人生的！”
可怜虫。
我很庆幸自己学会待在家里生闷气。
最精彩的一段话：Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-begining problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about?
2015-03-08 13:32:38
最精彩的一段话：Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-begining problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about?
And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I ever say to somebody I have been reasonably close to before our lives take different directions. Weird, eh? You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown . . . and then, bang, that's it. Gone forever. An...
2013-02-06 09:34:58
And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I ever say to somebody I have been reasonably close to before our lives take different directions. Weird, eh?
You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown . . . and then, bang, that's it. Gone forever.
And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.
You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk. — Rob 像这样的场景处处可见：年轻的中产阶级开始发现自己的生活令人失望，在餐厅、夜店、酒吧大声喧嚷。...
2017-01-08 16:27:53
You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk. — Rob
像这样的场景处处可见：年轻的中产阶级开始发现自己的生活令人失望，在餐厅、夜店、酒吧大声喧嚷。
“来看我啊！我不是你想像中的那么无聊！我是懂得享受人生的！”
可怜虫。
我很庆幸自己学会待在家里生闷气。
最精彩的一段话：Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-begining problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about?
2015-03-08 13:32:38
最精彩的一段话：Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-begining problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about?
And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I ever say to somebody I have been reasonably close to before our lives take different directions. Weird, eh? You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown . . . and then, bang, that's it. Gone forever. An...
2013-02-06 09:34:58
And that's the last time we will ever speak, probably. 'No problem': the last words I ever say to somebody I have been reasonably close to before our lives take different directions. Weird, eh?
You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown . . . and then, bang, that's it. Gone forever.
And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.
Birthdays should be suspended in years like this one: there should be a law, of man if not of nature, that you are only allowed to age when things are ticking along nicely. What do I want to be thirty-six for now? I don't. It's not convenient. Rob Fleming's life is frozen at the moment, and he refuses to get any older. Please retain all cards, cakes, and presents for use on another occasion. 以...
2012-02-03 23:11:26
Birthdays should be suspended in years like this one: there should be a law, of man if not of nature, that you are only allowed to age when things are ticking along nicely. What do I want to be thirty-six for now? I don't. It's not convenient. Rob Fleming's life is frozen at the moment, and he refuses to get any older. Please retain all cards, cakes, and presents for use on another occasion.引自 Twenty-four
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You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. ‘Look at me! I’m not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!’ Tragic. I’m glad I learned to stay home and sulk. — Rob 像这样的场景处处可见：年轻的中产阶级开始发现自己的生活令人失望，在餐厅、夜店、酒吧大声喧嚷。...
最精彩的一段话：Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-begining problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem...and what do women have to worry about?
0 有用 沈涵 2013-05-31 09:10:32
其实早读过了 最近又重读的了一遍
0 有用 神威太太 2009-12-13 14:14:50
嗚哇哇哇哇好棒好犀利相比之下中文版翻譯真是一坨屎
0 有用 半个桃李林檎 2012-02-08 00:51:50
也许是觉得从主角身上找到太多自己的影子，而且是缺点，所以有点抗拒。但不得不说，心理描写太真实太出色了
0 有用 No.A. 2009-04-09 13:01:16
有声书版~~
0 有用 乐化天 2008-06-01 18:51:37
还行吧，基本上是一部音乐史
0 有用 土卫九 2022-04-08 11:16:35
满满的直男窃喜，感受不大来。。
0 有用 Nightwing 2022-01-22 17:22:39
观察敏锐到矫情，情感细腻到琐碎，日子龟毛得欠揍，源自生活高于生活的渣男自黑+自白，每个角色都代表一类缺点鲜明的人，但又生动得让人倍感亲切，也非常适合Tovey神经男的气质，开卷就嘎嘎大笑到底。记下了故事里所有曲目，准备也做个合集，记念把逛音像店当仪式的卡带时光。
0 有用 Anderson 2021-02-07 00:09:09
戏太多..
0 有用 aprilcyh 2021-01-26 07:53:33
Are all dudes so annoying?
1 有用 jooooooooanna 2020-07-07 12:39:13
看完书觉得剧版真的改编得很好，从伦敦到纽约，从男生视角到女生视角，更丰满立体的配角形象，更新颖的叙事手法，更贴近时代的歌单，都会让我更容易有共鸣一点。但作品的内核还是一样的，剧里戳我的台词都能在书里找到踪影，只是compilation tape换成了playlist而已。