31 Songs

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• Wot? No Gene Vincent?

  31 Songs by Nick Hornby Viking £12.99, pp208 This is the first Nick Hornby book I've read. Shocking, but true. Surely, people have said, you must have read Fever Pitch. 'But it's about Arsenal,' I have replied, remembering the pain of the 1950 Cup Fi ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• The Hornby set

  31 Songs by Nick Hornby 208pp, Penguin, £12.99 I have to confess that reviewing this book has been extremely hard. The reason is easy to explain. Here, as the title implies, are 31 pop songs that move Nick Hornby. It is not exactly an astonishing ven ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  A collection of short stories inspired by different songs. It kind of makes you think you're missing quite a lot if you don't know the song in the first place.

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  A man infatuated with music.

  It's a anthology of music criticism, but also a collection of short essays about how music and people can shape and change over time. I don't totally agree with Dave Eggers:even if I listen to a song over and over, I don't have to 'solve' it. On the contrary, I discover new ideas about it.

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  It's a anthology of music criticism, but also a collection of short essays about how music and people can shape and change over time. I don't totally agree with Dave Eggers:even if I listen to a song over and over, I don't have to 'solve' it. On the contrary, I discover new ideas about it.

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  "All sorts of pieces of music are constantly being described as 'sexy', but that doesn't necessarily mean that you'd want them to accompany love-making"

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  Martha Peake said on Feb 25, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 256 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0141013869
• ISBN-13: 9780141013862
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Feb 24, 2005
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
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