Stuff i've been reading

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Sinopse

'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine (taking off where The Complete Polysyllabic Spree finished), he shows us how it's done.Or at least, how he does it: whether plunging into a biography of Dickens whilst his children are destroying something in the room next door or devouring a whole series of children's books whilst on holiday. Hornby is the intelligent, committed but sceptical reader we'd all like to be. Admiring Ian McEwen's On Chesil Beach, he points out a surprising anachronism. Reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road, he wonders why 'unflinching' is a term of praise among critics. And who but Nick Hornby could successfully juxtapose a discussion of a book on the Band with one on the Stasi?These accounts of one reader's experience of buying and reading, and sometimes not reading, books differ from all other reviews or critical appreciations - they take into account the role that books actually play in the lives of readers.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.

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Autor: Nick Hornby

Autor

NICK HORNBY

Nick Hornby nasceu em 1957, em Redhill, Inglaterra. Formado na Universidade de Cambridge, publicou uma dezena de livros, entre os quais Febre de bola, Alta fidelidade, Um grande garoto e Uma longa queda, que ganharam versões cinematográficas. Foi também roteirista dos filmes Educação, indicado ao Oscar, e Livre, estrelado por Reese Witherspoon. Em 1997 fundou, com outros pais, um centro de excelência no tratamento de crianças autistas na Inglaterra, a TreeHouse.