High Fidelity
It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music. - Amazon
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I hadn't realized I had seen the movie (probably on Comedy Central or TBS or something) when I started reading this book, and it was weird that I could picture every single character's voice and look perfectly.
The first half of the book is modeled almost perfectly by the movie, the second half changes a bit.
It's a good book, but not one of Nick Hornby's best. It should serve as a good introduction to the man's books, if you're interested in this great author.