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Sto caricando le informazioni... Stuff I've Been Readingdi Nick Hornby
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Rambling and light. The odd humorous or striking reference, but not worth compiling these offcuts into a book. Breezed through a few chapters, but I won’t be reading on. Even resorting to the index to find the references to books or writers I cared about didn’t make it sing for me. ( ) This is a collection of articles from the The Believer magazine that Hornby writes most months. In every article he starts with two lists: books he has bought, and books he has read. These lists rarely correspond... He is an eclectic reader, and his lists make for fascinating reading in themselves. He some months says that he will never read fiction again, and the next month is reading Skallig as he discovers what YA fiction has to offer. He has a soft spot for comprehensive historical tomes, and quirky non fiction. he works his way through some of the classics, and extolls the virtues of Claire Tomlinson, a literary biographer. The best thing about this book though is his attitude to reading. He is a great lover of all things book, he has completely disregard for celebrity books that inhabit the best seller lists, and goes on personal recommendations and what takes his fancy as he looks in a book shop. Great book and a fascinating take on books from the perspective of the reader. Of course, filmmaking has an enormous advantage when it comes to insider accounts, because every movie could have taken a different path, had crucial elements not fallen into place at crucial times. Robert Redford wanted to star in The Graduate; the writers of Bonnie and Clyde were desperate for Truffaut to direct their script, and Warren Beatty, one of the producers, saw Bob Dylan and Shirley MacLaine as the leads. (If only literature could be this interesting. You know, 'John Updike was scheduled to write Catch22 until right at the last moment. He pulled out when he was unexpectedly offered the first of the Rabbit books, after Saul Bellow's agent couldn't get the deal he wanted for his client. . .' As usual, books get stiffed with all the dull stories: 'He thought up the idea. Then he wrote it. Then it got published.' Who wants to read about that?) In June I read and enjoyed The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, and this month I borrowed the follow-up book from the library, which contains the author's Stuff I've Been reading columns from 2006 to 2011, along with one Stuff I've Been Watching Column. I haven't read many of the books Nick Hornby mentions in his columns, but his columns are always amusing, and there is an overlap in our tastes when it comes to Muriel Spark. One of the reasons we both like her is that her wondefrul books are so short, often under 200 pages long. I happened to pick this book up at just the right time. Brooklyn is now out at the cinema and doing very well, and this book contains Nick Hornby's thoughts on reading Colm Toibin's book twice in six months, once when he had just been asked to adapt it for the cinema, and the second time while he was writing the screenplay. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's done. From historical tomes to comic books, literary novels to children's stories, political thrillers to travel writing, Stuff I've Been Reading details Nick's thoughts and experiences on books by George Orwell, J.M. Barrie, Muriel Spark, Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jennifer Egan, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and many, many more. This wonderfully entertaining journey in reading differs from all other reviews or critical appreciations - it takes into account the role that books actually play in our lives. This book, which is classic Hornby, confirms the novelist's status as one of the world's most exciting curators of culture. It will be loved by fans of About a Boy and High Fidelity, as well as readers of Will Self, Zadie Smith, Stewart Lee and Charlie Brooker. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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