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Summary: A must read for sports fans, not just soccer (footy) fans
Review: This is without a doubt the best book on football (soccer) that I have ever read. It is also the best book dealing with sports that I have ever read. It describes like no other book I have read what it means to be a fan.Although this book follows the life of an Arsenal supporter, anyone can read it, because Hornby's experiences are no different than those of any committed, "obsessed" football fan. I am a Leeds supporter, and much of what Hornby said described what I feel, so perfectly. I especially liked the part when he went on about wanting to switch allegiances if he could, but found out that he couldn't because he was too emotionally tied to Arsenal. No matter how poorly they played, or how frustrated they made him feel, he still supported the club. I've felt the same way about Leeds on many an occasion. A great book about life, not just about football.
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Summary: A book for all sports fans, not just football fans
Review: If you have a passion for sports, than this simply is the book for you -- even if you despise the game of football (soccer for those American non-fans out there, one of which I'm proud to say I'm not a member). Hornby captured in absolute perfect detail the sports lover and/or fanatic, and how the ebb and flow of the game, even just one game, can literally change your day, your life. My favorite part of the book is in the end, when he describes the Arsenal 2-goal win over Liverpool to win the Premiership, and how no one save the true sports nut can appreciate how that moment will stand for him as his greatest moment ever in life. If you're a sports fan who has that one memory in life (Lenny Dykstra's 10th inning homer of Game 5 of the 1993 NLCS is mine), then you must buy this book -- and learn a little about yourself in the process. Nick Hornby, you're my new hero. Cheers.
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Summary: This transcends football ...............................
Review: Nick Hornby talks not just about football (never mind this soccer crap, the game is played with feet and a ball!), but about love and obsession, about hiding from the harsh realities of life behind a red and white smokescreen. The juxtaposition of the hooligan and the sensitive boy is masterly. I am about the same age as the author, and am a Gooner (Arsenal supporter), but you don't need to be either to enjoy this book. You just need to be human, with all the frailties and flaws that entails.
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Summary: Very accurate
Review: As a kid I supported Glasgow Celtic with what I can only describe as total immersion. I can remember the complete incomprehension between my dad and myself about what a good game was. My favourites were the 7-1 trouncings of no hope teams, he - completely bizarrely in my view - wanted to watch games where CELTIC MIGHT LOSE! I can remember getting up one morning and rushing downstairs to get the result of a European match that was played after my bedtime and having to run back to my bedroom so the rest of my family wouldn't see me cry (Celtic were beaten 3-1 by Ajax away and didn't make it up in the second leg). Yes I enjoyed this book, but I also lived it. It takes a wonderful author to create this type of work.
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Summary: A book for everyone....(especially if you are a boy)
Review: This was the first of Nick Hornby's books that I read and as a result I went out and bought the other two and loved them all. I think any guy can associate with the characters in the books, I know I can!! But its not only for guys, Hornby writes so simply but yet you get the feeling that you know the characters like a good friend. You dont have to know about soccer or music because the real story is about the characters and all their faults... but you gotta love them!
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Summary: The greatest book of all time.
Review: Nick Hornby takes the passions of the average soccer fanatic and condences it down into this easy to read novel
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Summary: Any sportsfan will love this book
Review: This novel is a tribute to Arsenal, the game of football (or soccer as you say over there) and all other sports. Any devoted fan, of any team, who have watched a game and felt the hope, the pain and then finally the desperation after a lost game will love this book. As always when it comes to novels - read the book, it is ten times better than the film (with the same name but with a totally diffrent plot).
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Summary: More autobiography than soccer novel - which suits me fine
Review: Like music in High Fidelity, soccer plays an important and constant part in Fever Pitch; and like High Fidelity, Hornby takes an in-depth, sometimes depressing, always entertaining look at one man's life and asks what makes it worth living. The difference is that in this case Hornby's writing about his own life, but the end result is the same - a very funny and honest book.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Not just a sports book, probably one of the best books I have ever read. His literary style of writing seems effortlessly readable, I wanted more. A must read for sports and non sports fans of good writing everywhere. Brilliant
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Summary: this book is perfect for football fans of all ages
Review: this book is simply marvelous! i read it 3 times i loved it so much. nick hornby is a super author who deserves an award for this book!
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