Doctor Katie has everything she could wish for: a great job, healthy children and a successful husband. Super – at first sight. The second one looks a little different. And with the third, she inevitably asks herself: Why are there instructions for everything, just not for life?
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5.0 out of 5 stars The million-dollar questionReviewed in the United States on March 13, 2007
It was the title that originally attracted me to this book. Isn’t trying to figure out how to “be good” the central question of all our lives? Hornby seems to have grappled with the issue himself in a deep way, and this parable – that’s how I interpret it – is what he came up with. I enjoyed the wild ride through a short-lived affair, a dysfunctional marriage, an utter and disorienting about-face in what originally seemed to be the more offensive of the two partners, a deus-ex-machina solution for back pain and eczema but not emotional turmoil, and the narrator’s moving out…but all along I wanted to know where it would all end up. I wasn’t disappointed. I found the ending believable, and even quotable. I won’t spoil it by giving it away here, since I think it was the best part of the book, and worth the long buildup.
I like the bits of British English I picked up here and there, like “bedsit”.
I was impressed with Hornby’s success in writing the story from a female point of view. The one time when I suppose it made the most difference was when he described the couple’s marital bed routines. Otherwise the female narrator in many ways has taken on more traditionally masculine roles, such as being the main breadwinner. But the effort is convincing in any case.
1.0 out of 5 stars Tedious, irritating and whiny characters. Don’t bother
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2015
I’ve enjo yed so many of Nick Hornby’s other books that I looked forward to this one eagerly, and was really disappointed. It’s tedious, full of irritating, whiny people I couldn’t possibly care about (including the protagonist), so who cares if the marriage is dysfunctional and the kids are a mess? I read through to the end on principle and because I was hoping somehow it would get better. It didn’t. Don’t make the same mistake. Save yourself the time and money and skip this one.
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels How to Be Good pdf Book, A Long Way Down, Slam, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. A film written by Hornby, An Education – shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony that fall. That same September, the author published his latest novel, Juliet, Naked to wide acclaim. Hornby lives in North London.
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