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Juliet, naked by Nick Hornby
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Juliet, naked (edition 2010)

by Nick Hornby

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Annie initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And a childless woman looks for a change?… (more)
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Title:Juliet, naked
Authors:Nick Hornby
Info:10-18 (2010), Poche, 312 pages
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Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby

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I paused in my reading today to check my email and saw that someone had commented on a post I'd put up about a friend's podcast. The podcast is called Read It and Weep, and its purpose is to make fun of terrible books. I like this podcast, but when I saw that their latest selection was [b:The Lightning Thief|28187|The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)|Rick Riordan|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255581465s/28187.jpg|3346751], I was a little taken aback. Who could think that Rick Riordan is as bad as Stephanie Meyer or that crazy lady who wrote [b:The Secret|15881|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)|J.K. Rowling|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HXKV6R8DL._SL75_.jpg|6231171]? But, friends, they unfeelingly picked apart Percy Jackson. So how could I resist letting them know what a mistake they'd made? And how could they resist letting me know what a mistake they had NOT made?

Well, it's like in Juliet, Naked when Annie is anxious to check on the responses to her review of the album. Someone disagrees with her and she thinks, "Why bother?" Why get so involved in these semi-real online debates? What does it matter what these guys think of a book that wasn't even written for an audience of overly critical 20-something men?

In conclusion: It's interesting to find such an obvious parallel between the book you're reading the life you're living. Juliet, Naked is great because it satisfactorily captures the now. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
About music and fame and people I immediately want to know about. ( )
  mykl-s | Aug 13, 2023 |
Cute. ( )
  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
Entertaining. ( )
  graceandbenji | Sep 1, 2022 |
I avoided reading the synopsis for this book until I was nearly closed to finishing it; I'm not sure why. But there's something to be said for not knowing what to expect. I started out with the expectation of a book that would pick apart the end of a relationship, but ended up with something a bit more nuanced - and a lot more enjoyable - than I would have expected.

There are the little details about relationships, life, and music that I enjoy about Hornby's work. For example, he talks about the elitism about one's musical tastes that would cause someone to be disappointed when his track listings are automatically pre-populated by his musical software, and the desire to discover something obscure and different. He also talks about the obsessions of fandom and the gray area it shares with some elements of academia. He also thankfully spends a lot of time in the heads of these three main characters, and the results are witty and endearing.

Those of you who have read this book know that there is some impertinence (some 'cheek' if you will) to writing a review about a book that in part makes fun of people who go online to share their often wretched opinions about things to a community of people with shared interests. But here it is.

Just as one of the protagonists, Tucker, is quick to point out he is no Shakespeare or Leonard Cohen, and that he should just be taken as what he is, I would argue the same for this book. It is engrossing and light and enjoyable, and I would probably read it again. Parts of it made me literally laugh out loud, with the kind of recognition of the human condition that I like to flip over and over in my head because it's fun to do. As it stands, though, the parts of the human condition that Hornby graces us with here are not earth-shattering: They are nothing more (or less) trivial than the arrogant jerks who frequent many a website comment section, the observations children can make that are so profound simply because they are so innocent and tactless, and the trials of growing older, falling in and out of love, and why Morrissey fans can be really monomaniacal. Overall, a lovely and entertaining ride. ( )
  irrelephant | Feb 21, 2021 |
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Hornby seems, as ever, fascinated by the power of music to guide the heart, and in this very funny, very charming novel, he makes you see why it matters.
 
For all the bits and bytes flowing through it, this is not a particularly electrifying setup. Any novel about a rock star must first get past the ekphrastic nightmare of trying to describe music with prose. But more than that, this is a novel about people who have wasted massive chunks of their lives.. They're trying to make the best of what's left, but what's left just isn't that great. Juliet, Naked is a bleaker book than Hornby's A Long Way Down, and that was about four people trying to kill themselves.
added by Shortride | editTime, Lev Grossman (Oct 5, 2009)
 
Without the tangents and occasional tedium of its middle section, Juliet, Naked could have been a classic novella about our current, internet-fueled pop-culture moment. As it is, the novel is still Hornby’s most inspired in more than a decade; now, if only he could find a way to apply that same inspiration to a greater variety of situations that aren’t so obviously near to his own heart.
added by Shortride | editPopdose, Jon Cummings (Oct 1, 2009)
 
A more treacly writer than Mr. Hornby would engineer new happiness for each of [its] characters. But in its diffident way, “Juliet, Naked” is as candid as the unplugged music on “Naked.” It knows its characters too well to lie about them.
 
Hornby’s first novel, “High Fidelity,” demonstrated the author’s passion for music and the magical effects it can have on its fans. In “Juliet, Naked,” he shows how obsessing over music isn’t the road to love and self-actualization. It’s the road to heartbreak.
added by Shortride | editNew York Post, Reed Tucker (Sep 27, 2009)
 
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Annie initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And a childless woman looks for a change?

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