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The exhilarating New York Times bestseller from the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to Be Good.
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Meet the four toppers
A Long Way Down Nick Hornby Viking £17.99, pp258 PG Wodehouse may have been the last light-comic writer to be comfy in his pigeonhole. Since then, it has become hard to find a jester who wants to play anything but Hamlet. With his fourth novel, Nick ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
22 Reviews
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5 people find this helpful




The best Horny book to date; again, Hornby create characters that you can't love nor hate, and the more you read, the more you feel both attracted and disgusted by them. This is because Hornby just take a picture of everyone weak points, even those we won't see and/or admit.
And the ending, som ... (continue)Fito said on Feb 12, 2008 | Add your feedback
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3 people find this helpful




The two most common complaints I have heard when discussing this book are also the two most common compliments I have heard it given; one being that the ending can be seen as relatively non-conclusive and the other being that none of the characters are easily pegged as "good" or "bad". My personal ... (continue)
Bossdog said on Aug 3, 2007 | Add your feedback
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2 people find this helpful




an unusual story, but too random to be liked
Unusual plot, good storytelling from Nick Hornby considering the four key characters are so random and different. The four main characters narrate the story in turn which really helped me to understand the characters.
Nevertheless, it was an unsatisfactory read. The underlying plot is just too ... (continue)
olivia said on Jul 16, 2008 | Add your feedback
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It's not only about irony which Hornby gets on to explore drama. Reading throught his pages is wearing lenses enabling you to laught at death and dark life chapters or brainstorming on meaningless details of human being as well.
Call it distortion, if you like. I call it figuring out the way we ar ... (continue)
Daniela * said on Sep 21, 2011 | Add your feedback
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Four blokes (Hornby's frequent expression) on the roof of a London building want to jump off to end their miserable lives, but they only resolve to jump into each other with some comical effects. So tragedy will become a kind of game where no one knows the rules. Final score: few funny points for t ... (continue)
Elena Mc said on Aug 3, 2010 | Add your feedback
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Four people met in the New Year's Eve on the top of the roof of a building in central London...to throw them down of it. But their suicidal intentions turn in an unexpected way.
Although the characterization of each character is very strong and realistic, I didn't find the story very appealing, funn ... (continue)Ecila82 said on Jul 23, 2010 | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 352 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 1594481938
- ISBN-13: 9781594481932
- Publisher: Riverhead Trade
- Pub date: May 02, 2006
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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From a whisper to a scream
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby 288pp, Viking, £17.99 Nick Hornby has grown up in public. Lad lit's original gang leader has written about football, music, parental responsibility and morality, his work organically evolving with maturity. This time, h ... (read full critics)