High Fidelity

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• I’ve Got Your Number (Written on the Back of my Hand)

  Rob Fleming is 35 years old, nearly 36. He lives in North London, in a one-bedroom conversion flat in Crouch End. His girlfriend, Laura, is a lefty lawyer who would like to be working for a legal aid firm but finds herself, to her dismay, with a flas ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

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  absolutely fantastic, ironic, funny, true, it captures you from the very first page to the last!

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  franciui said on Jun 1, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Nearly useless, sometimes entertaining thirty-something generational novel.
  Not too badly written, though.
  In a word: average.

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  grenadier said on Nov 9, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Fun to read.
  And it's rare to see an author who actually has good taste in music. Now that's something!

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  Angel-a said on May 23, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• Rob was thirty-five years old and he liked to make all-time top five this and that. He was a music enthusiast and owned an old record shop.

  Rob was ditched by Laura. Though this could not make its way into Rob's list of top five split-ups, he found that he wanted to stay with Laura more than a ... (continue)

  Rob was thirty-five years old and he liked to make all-time top five this and that. He was a music enthusiast and owned an old record shop.

  Rob was ditched by Laura. Though this could not make its way into Rob's list of top five split-ups, he found that he wanted to stay with Laura more than anyone else. He could not sort himself out so he went through his previous mates in order to know the what-does-it-all-mean stuff.

  After changing job to a city firm lawyer, Laura left Rob for Ian. It was not that Ian was more charming than Rob, but that Rob always kept his options open, which was the other word for undetermined and unenthusiastic.

  Laura thought splitting-up was like cutting a cord, but it was not as simple as a single cord. They had got used to each other and were not as separable as they thought. At the end they managed to made the way through, yet inevitably itchy feet sometimes aroused. I believe that would depend on the effort of both.

  　

  "sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostalgic and hopeful all at the same time."

  "you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to"

  "it has prevented me from sticking with a relationship, because if you stick with a relationship, and your life becomes dependent on that person's life, and then they die, as they are bound to do,... well, you're up the creek without a paddle"

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  Candy said on Jan 6, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  high five

  Very funny and clever. Loved it.

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  Marty said on Sep 17, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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  I really liked this book because it talks about feelings, memories and music. is very original, which makes the ranking for each event of his life beginning of his girlfriends

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  Francy said on Aug 18, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• Audio Cassette 1 Pages
• Edition: Abridged Ed
• ISBN-10: 185686166X
• ISBN-13: 9781856861663
• Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
• Pub date: Apr 06, 1995
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