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  • I'm a fan of Hornby but...

  • The only thing that made this book enjoyable were the two pages that mentioned Dick from High Fidelity. Overall, the book was quintessential Nick Hornby, I just didn't enjoy the subject matter.

    I also had to get back into Hornby's style of writing. He has a tendency to always sound like he's ... Continue

    The only thing that made this book enjoyable were the two pages that mentioned Dick from High Fidelity. Overall, the book was quintessential Nick Hornby, I just didn't enjoy the subject matter.

    I also had to get back into Hornby's style of writing. He has a tendency to always sound like he's starting a whole new section, but it never really goes anywhere and you have to connect it back to the rest of the story. Which I liked in High Fidelity and Long Way Down, but was sort of hard to follow when the subject matter is about the conflict of whether to divorce your husband or not.

    And the last sentence confused me, which is never good. I'm still not sure how the book ended, and there was nothing else left after the final words.

    I think fans of Nick Hornby should read How To Be Good at least once, but it probably won't be your favourite book by him. I probably won't read it again.

    

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• ― Joel Goodman said on Jun 13, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I know that this book is supposed to be an easy read, but it was downright dreadful. If I had had any other book available, I would have read something else.

    

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• ― Cassie said on Apr 15, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." (The New York Times Book Review)

How to Be Good is a story for our times-a humorous but uncompromising look at what it takes, in this day and age, to have the courage of our convictions. In his third novel, Nick Hornby, whom The New Yorker named "the maestro of the male confessional," has reinvented himself as Katie-the consummate liberal, urban mom-a doctor from North London whose world is being turned on its ear by the outrageous spiritual transformation of her husband, David. How to Be Good has the ironic, funny, startlingly accurate take on our modern selves and our modern world that has become Hornby's turf as a chronicler of our popular culture-but this time he tackles it all with more richness and depth, and carries his readers beyond the comic confines of the novel to a bigger truth about themselves. It's a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion . . . and how to be good.

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