I have just finished listening to the iTunes feature ‘Meet the Author‘ where the focus is the author Nick Hornby.
Damn him.
Does he have n0 sense of moral decency?
No sense of, of, of… responsibility towards his fellow man?
Well actually.
Yes he does.
He has all of these things in abundance.
He comes across as a sensible, sensitive, caring, compassionate guy with his feet firmly rooted in the ‘normal’.
Much of the focus of the talk is on his new novel Slam – he reads a beguiling passage which hooked me straight away.
There’s also significant chat about Fever Pitch and the brilliant High Fidelity.
And that’s why the ‘damn you Nick Hornby’.
Because now I want to read Slam.
And then buy yet another copy of High Fidelity, lock myself away for eight or nine hours and selfishly wallow in his work and my own memories, as they are triggered by his words.
Damn you Nick Hornby.
B.
The villain. Of course, it’s your own fault.
Nononononooooooo! It’s his fault for writing such good books. All his fault I tells ya! Curses. Aharrrrrr.
(I’m sorry, I seem to have slipped in to pirate mode. I blame Anna [etc]….)
I do like Nick Hornby – I am sure I will be reading his new book sooner rather than later. I have just found he has a blog so I have off now to subscribe! http://nickhornby.campaignserver.co.uk/