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Summary: Not so much a review as a political statement
Review: I give five stars not because it is one of the greatest books of our age, nor the funniest. But is is one of the most tragic. It reminds me of what going to a football match in England was like in my youth. IN MY YOUTH?? I'm only 23. Times have changed that quickly. Seven years ago I stood on the Fulwell End to watch Sunderland play to a crowd of 18,000. The food was dire, the view terrible. This year I will sit in our new stadium, with 42,000 others, quality snacks and a perfect unrestricted view. In 1991, a 15-year-old could watch Sunderland for £3.50. Now it is £17. Perhaps if all of us could remember past glories with as much lucidity and enthusiasm as Nick Hornby, and express that passion then maybe we could keep a little of our youth for a little longer.
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Summary: Great book. You just need to be a sports fan to relate...
Review: I am a sports fan; I spent a year in Continental Europe; and I used to follow English football a little bit in the late 70s. I can relate to the character very well. Like Hornby, I am a sports fan. Certainly I have corrected someone on the score of some obscure football game from 15 years ago. I have also associated certain phases of my life to certain memorable sporting events. A fun book to read.
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Summary: Regardless of nationality, the book captures fandom.
Review: Hornby has eloquently and humorously captured what it is to be a football fan. As an avid US soccer fan, and a diehard DC United fan, I can report that the book spoke to me about my experiences and helped me to understand my soccer mania!
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Summary: One of the best sports-related books ever writtern
Review: Quite simply one of the best sports-related books ever written. Although Hornby writes about football (or, as we call it over here, soccer), that it merely a jumping off point to so much more; his rememberances of his relationship with his father, and his thoughts on the duality of fanaticism -- how one doesn't so much enjoy one's obsession but live and die with it -- are brilliant. With "Summer of 49" and "Ball Four" -- baseball books both -- one of three must-read sports books. (Hornby's novel "High Fidelity" also highly recommended)
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Summary: Best book yet about being a fan.
Review: This book perfectly captures the love-hate relationshipthe between a fan and his team. A great introduction to English football, though an interest in football is not required to love this book. Hilarious!
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Summary: Absolute junk
Review: After ten minutes of reading this drivel I was compelled to return to a programming manual, this proving far more stimulating. The fact that people watch soccer (let alone read about it) leaves me cold about the future of our race. The ranting of a cockney hooligan may impress some people but what has that acheived for british society?? Hornby's witt is completely wasted on me and to be honest I was lost after the first chapter.
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Summary: Cockney's expert guide of living a supporter's life.
Review: Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch is simply one of the best books ever written on football. It sums up the exact feelings that go through a fan's mind whilst growing up with the game. Especially the bit when he's young and isn't allowed to stay up late enough to hear the final score. That's happened to most fanatical youngsters in England, and makes this novel easy to relate to. The book tends to be slightly targeted to the 'new' football fan too which is it's only downfall, the book has been talked as if it is essential to understand the game, which is of course false. More of a club programme than a fanzine, but class all the same.
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Summary: a football book, yes, but something more too.
Review: this is the book that propelled me into sports literature. i grew up near london, and took every chance i had to get to highbury to watch the gunners. hornby's words crystalize the experience that i had as a boy and give it voice. two things in the book that are strange but true. 1. yes, i do find my idle moments spent trying to recall the team list for that arsenal side that beat newcastle on my birthday. just like him, i keep this to myself less my wife and son find out and pronounce me a sad man. 2. yes, i cannot truely enjoy watching my team because of the possibility they might lose. i understand hornby and i think he understands me.
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Summary: The story of a passion just like any other.
Review: Nick Hornby has written a book on the passion for a soccer team. In so doing, he showed two things: - that football-writting can reach high standards of quality, - that, despite his passion for Arsenal he had time for other things: reading, music, social life and for having the sense of his times.
Hornby's novel is also a novel about growing up, about a country in change which will never be the same. Just like soccer will never be barren standing terraces. Easy to read, funny and talented. Football, may be for the first time, regarded as just another human craziness or addiction: reading, music, love, work ... All of them as irrational as ourselves.
Nick, hoping Arsenal will clinch title this year, like in that unforgettable night at Anfield.
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Summary: Helps us occasional sports fans understand the obsessives
Review: Nick Hornby takes us through his life via watching Arsenal Football Club. The book is fast , witty and FUN. He comments intelligently on the politics of Britains national game but is also wonderfully self indulgent and honest in how much it has taken over his life. A great read that will help many women understand the men in their life's obsession with the game.
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