Three strikes against Nick Hornby: Stephen Metcalf, TMFTML and Laura Demanski.
We gave up on the man after How to Be Good and suggest you do the same. Let’s put it this way: he’s the Moby of literature.
© 2005, DrMabuse. All rights reserved.
Three strikes against Nick Hornby: Stephen Metcalf, TMFTML and Laura Demanski.
We gave up on the man after How to Be Good and suggest you do the same. Let’s put it this way: he’s the Moby of literature.
© 2005, DrMabuse. All rights reserved.
then his great grandfather must be kraftwerk … or something.
Yes. Exactly TMFTML describes the feeling perfectly as you read each book.
How to Be Good struck me as a pale Hallmark Theatre version of Thornton Wilder’s Heaven’s My Destination – where Hornby was just scared to take the story into any true depth.