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Originally posted by barely_legal
I haven't read Fever Pitch or his essay collections, but I was very disappointed in How to be Good and A Long Way Down. I loved About a Boy and High Fidelity so maybe my expectations were too high.
I will probably read Fever Pitch eventually just because I haven't completely given up on him yet, but my hopes are not high.
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I liked the first two I read (
High Fidelity and
About a Boy), and I sort of lost interest in him after
How to Be Good (which isn't to say I didn't like it, but I just didn't really feel like picking up the next two).
Fever Pitch is sort of different, in that it's autobiographical and historical. I don't know much about soccer at all, much less how the leagues in the UK work, but I thought his writing was engaging enough to catch the gyst of what he was talking about. I also know, to some extent, the agony of being a fan. I think that can be pretty universal, even for the cricket hooligans.
ETA: I really liked the book
About A Boy, and I was fairly irritated that the movie didn't live up to the book. It pissed me off significantly that there was no mention of Nirvana at all in the movie version.
