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Loading... A Long Way Down (2005)by Nick Hornby
   Books Read in 2017 (1,581) » 8 more Books Read in 2019 (2,967) Books Read in 2006 (52) 2000s decade (72) KayStJ's to-read list (1,392) Unread books (567) No current Talk conversations about this book. It was a very funny book and it really kept me reading. On the one hand I felt that a comedy about 4 people who want to kill themselves is in bad taste. But on the other hand it was interesting and really amusing. There were laugh out loud parts. I finished the book thinking that it was trying to teach me something about life that I just didn't get. That bothered me. I am going to have to read reviews of the book and see if I missed some big life lesson that was in the book. But I might not have. (  ) KamGeb | Sep 6, 2020 |  I didn't enjoy this one as much as his other novels. It was probably the suicide thing...I'm used to a lighter topic with his novels. (  ) baruthcook | Aug 26, 2020 | Terribly misguided. This is where he jumped the shark for me. So few authors seem to understand how to deal with the subject of suicide. Cardboard stereotypes, plot holes, and ?Angels? Wow that was bad. (  ) billycongo | Jul 22, 2020 | Man kann sich einfach nicht in Ruhe umbringen, wenn andere dabei zusehen. Und so kommt es, dass die vier Lebensmüden, die sich Silvester auf dem Dach eines Hochhauses begegnen, nicht springen, sondern sich gegenseitig ihre Geschichten erzählen: die Hausfrau Maureen, der Talkmaster Martin, das Mädchen Jess und der Musiker JJ. Die vier verabreden, mit dem finalen Sprung zu warten. So findet eine Gruppe von Menschen zueinander, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten – und die einander doch auf wundersame Weise zu helfen wissen ... Fredo68 | May 18, 2020 | Margie gave me my autographed copy. ( ) Tammyhil | Mar 18, 2020 |
 ...Hornby doesn't confuse the simplicity of this thought with the impossibility of sometimes living it. For all his light touches, he is never superficial enough to suggest that these lives that have fallen apart, in four of the millions of ways lives may do so, can easily be patched up and renewed. Whatever limited consolations the book's survivors find in each other, Hornby resists melodramatic resolutions or glorious moments of redemption, and he doesn't smuggle away or refute all the reasons his characters took with them to the rooftop where they met, the ones that urged them toward the edge rather than down to the ground the slow way, back into the world.
Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances. No library descriptions found. 
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