Hornby, you make me want to wear dresses.ĭuring my last year of high school and through all four years of college, I too worked in a record store with a bunch of misfit music snobs. He and I are the same fucked up, insecure, too-much-in-our-own-head-for-our-own-good person. Coherent thoughts elude me and float downstream like a toy boat escaping from a little boy’s grasp. You see, when it comes to reviewing my favorite books, I’m all thumbs. For all I know, you're the kind of person who watches marathon 'scrubs' reruns. But when you find the central character so annoying that just reading about him makes you twitch, it's probably time to switch to another book. Anyway, it's about the character's emotional growth. Many fine books have been written about unlikable characters. It actually signals a pathological narcissist whose solipsism and incessant neediness will bleed you dry. It might seem like a charming vulnerability, but don't be fooled. You know the type - the constant puppy need for the approval of every critter on the planet, all the time. Reading this book felt like being trapped in an elevator with the pathetic Scrubs douchebag (Zachy McWhinerson, or whatever his fracking name is) for an entire weekend. I couldn't stand the self-pitying little git, his loser wanker record store buddies, nor their ridiculous fracking lists. Supervision.Nick Hornby writes about losers and makes them lovable. Resulting from NeRF to further improve the deforming surface via 3D-to-3D

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