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Housekeeping vs. the Dirt Tapa blanda – 30 septiembre 2006

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A follow-up to The Polysyllabic Spree features a collection of essays that surveys the author's stuffed bookshelves as well as the wide range of books that he purchases and reads within the confines of his busy lifestyle, in a volume that serves as a literary barometer for today's readers. Original.

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153 páginas
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Inglés
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McSweeney's Publishing
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30 septiembre 2006
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13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
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1932416595
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978-1932416596
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Editorial ‏ : ‎ McSweeney's Publishing (30 septiembre 2006)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
Tapa blanda ‏ : ‎ 153 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932416595
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932416596
Peso del producto ‏ : ‎ 212 g
Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm

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Ich liebe dieses Buch, das zweite aus der Reihe "Columns of the Believer Magazine" und von den empfohlenen Büchern das vielleicht am besten nachzuverfolgende. Gepaart mit Hornbys Wortwitz, seinen Anspielungen auf die unendliche Liebe zu Arsenal und die Einblicke in seine private Welt ist es ein absolutes Lesevergnügen.

Aber Achtung: "The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" enthält diesen zweiten Band bereits. Wer es also besitzt, kann sich den Kauf sparen und lieber gleich zu Band drei "Shakespeare Wrote for Money" übergehen.

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C. Ebeling

Time spent in good company

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 4 de octubre de 2006

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Time spent with Nick Hornby is always time well spent. In essay mode, he is a companionable conversationalist making sparkling observations, and since he hits so often on my cultural zeitgeist list, I feel like we're having a dialogue, not that he's doing a garrulous solo riff. HOUSEKEEPING VS. THE DIRT is the second collection of his mostly monthly reading column for "The Believer" magazine, covering much of 2005, right up to the June/July 2006 edition. Hornby, an incorrigible book acquirer, begins each month with the list of books bought and those actually read. His reading is eclectic, the choices often serendipitous, as in picking up a book a small child has yanked off the shelf, and the title sums up the range, from Marianne Robinson's critically acclaimed HOUSEKEEPING to Motley Crue's sensational THE DIRT. He recognizes that we don't read in a vacuum, we read while under the influence of moods and the events of our personal lives and the world, and as such our book acquiring and reading is a part of that dynamic, part of our fiber. It's nice to sit down with a guy who gets it that reading is cool and essential, that it's not a disassociated science or a substitute for life or something that distracts us unnecessarily from doing other things someone else may deem more useful.

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F. Camacho

Good columns

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 24 de marzo de 2013

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I liked this second volume of Believer columns better than the first. The books were a little bit more appealing to the general public, and I look forward to reading Gilead because of Hornby's recommendation of it.

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Kelsey May Dangelo

a great reminder of what reading is all about

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 18 de julio de 2010

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The third collection I've read of one of my favorite authors' columns about his monthly reading. Of course, Hornby is both hilarious and thought-provoking. Though I've added a few of his recommendations to my wish list, the important part of Hornby's criticism is the thoughts he expresses on the act of reading itself. He cuts through the snobbery and pretension of art and artifice and hits on the pure enjoyment of reading and having a friendly conversation with our books. He makes me want to read more, as well as to add more books to the insane pile in my closet. Grade: A

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BC

Writer on the Decline.

Revisado en los Estados Unidos el 26 de marzo de 2007

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I've been a Nick Hornby fan since I read Fever Pitch and High Fidelity, and I enjoyed the first round of reviews in The Polysyllabic Spree but this book wore on me by the end. The first thing which made it as inferior was the book selection itself--or the works he talks about throughout. For the most part its fiction and there was nothing Hornby perused that wound up on my wish list; whereas, in the first installment I got several solid recommendations. Second, Hornby always has witty, clever moments, that's his nature, but they are not enough to make up for the outright politicizing he engages in at several points in the book. He was not as overt about his politics in Polysyllabic which caused it to grate less. He seems to think that people on the right can't read so that all of his leftist cant is merely preaching to the converted. Well, he lost one fan with this publication. We'll see how many more he looses in the future. It was probably inevitable anyway as he doesn't like Amazon reviewers much either and takes an elitist view of guys like me. The last thing I need is a silly fiction writer like Hornby talking down to me about politics. If he thinks socialism is the answer to anything, life is going to deal him several more disappointments in the years ahead. His views on the subject are superficial and I resented his taking advantage of his readers in such a fashion.

The true low point of the book came on pages 100 and 101 where he actually defended political correctness. He objected to the phrase `deliciously politically correct', and said that what the phrase really meant is that a work is racist, sexist or homophobic. Um, no, actually it doesn't as they usually are not. Fiction is supposed to be about imagination and creativity so it's appalling that any novelist would defend limitations on speech. Given the thin parameters of PC, do we throw out all of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Mark Twain? We'd have to if we left it to the race, sex, and gay obsessed leftists who are the true merchants of hate in our society. Creating rules for speech and shunning those who fail to meet them is the stuff of totalitarianism. I don't want it here and they shouldn't want it in England. PC is a great evil and represents the death of the intellect. It's too bad that Mr. Hornby has become so corrupted by trends and his own pathetic need to conform. As we saw in Fever Pitch, he could have been somebody, but now, like the Arsenal player Gus Caesar, he's nothing but a memory.

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