Juliette, Naked by Nick Hornby

[JennyS1985]

Just started reading this - if anyone has read it all they way through please could you inspire me to keep going??? Or if its finale its what I suspect, and equally as bland as the first hundred or so pages, let me know so that I can do something more useful with my bed time reading!! Love Nick Hornby but seriously, whats happened? Is he trying to enter the world of chick-Lit?? Stick to what you do well, I say! x

See my thread under Adult Fiction. I liked it, esp Annie's sessions with the psychotherapist Malcolm and the Wikipedia entries. I loved the characterisation of Duncan the complete failure as a boyfriend.

I enjoyed this one. Easy to read and not too predictable, really. Stick with it

Yeah I'd say stick with it. It helps if you have a lot of time and can read it through quickly in a few sessions, the page count looks more daunting than it really is.

There is something hopeful about it all, hopeful in the face of early drudgery, I think best explains it.

First I have read by Nick Hornby and did not live up to expectations. Surprised that it was selected for Ch 4 Book Club.
Should I try any of his other books? Suggestions please!

This was the only Nick Hornby book I haven't really enjoyed, I've found all his other books excellent and unputdownable.

High Fidelity and How to be Good are both favourites of mine.

There are some good bits but definitely didn't live up to his other books IMO. Is worth reading all the way through but not on my books of the year list!

Couldn't get through it either, had to give up, which I've never done before with a Nick H.

I did get through it (mainly as was on holiday and didnt have another book.).

Sounds harsh but I feel that if it had been submitted to a publisher by an unpublished author, and not Nick Hornby, it would have got a "Thanks but this isn't for us."

I felt that the whole thing, and especially the relationship between the girl and the washed up pop star (sorry, cant remember any names) lacked credibility; not in the sense that it couldnt be credible, but that Hornby didnt make it so.