Surely just coincidence
I don't read much in the way of fiction. I think I find facts more interesting. However this is not to say I haven't read the odd novel. Nick Hornby's 'High Fidelity' has to go down as one of the best of the few I've bothered with. It seems to me that it's written in a way which perfectly reflects the way men think about things in general and will have even more relevance for the music-obsessed such as myself.

So hence, when the 'favourite books' conversation comes up in a new relationship scenario it's usually likely to come up with the tag line 'shows exactly how men think'. One particular ex thought it would be a great idea to read it with a view to cracking the mystery of what goes on in my head and being the paranoid sort was very worried by what she read and I had a fair bit of explaining to do regarding shallowness and cynicism and the like. I always felt she never really trusted me after that. I ended it with her not too long afterwards.

On the flipside, the other girlfriend I recommended it to complained that the protagonist was a 'whiny bastard' though claimed to have enjoyed the book. She ended it with me soon after over accusations that I was too neurotic.

Owing to the pattern forming I no longer recommend 'High Fidelity' to any women I meet.
( Raindance Work is inversely proportional to post-count, Fri 16 May 2008, 16:47, 1 reply)

The way men think?
Speak for yourself. I also viewed the protagonist as a whiny bastard and disliked the book.

Strangely, I enjoyed the film, probably because John Cusack somehow managed to make the worthless chump likeable.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 16 May 2008, 17:33, closed)