June 20, 2005

Three Strikes and a Long Way from "Fever Pitch"

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.

Posted by DrMabuse at June 20, 2005 05:03 PM
Comments

then his great grandfather must be kraftwerk ... or something.

Posted by: tito at June 20, 2005 06:26 PM

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.

Posted by: mwb at June 21, 2005 07:40 AM