Fever Pitch

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In America, it is soccer But in Great Britain, it is the real football No pads, no prayers, no prisoners And that s before the players even take the field.Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived Call it predestiny Or call it preschool Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby s award winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens coming of age stories Fever Pitch is one for the home team But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it really means to have a losing season. New Read [ Fever Pitch ] Author [ Nick Hornby ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I have always been accused of taking the things I love football, of course, but also books and records much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to meNo, you haven t imagined it I am reviewing a football book Or should I say, a book about an adorably idiotic Arsenal fan This is the second time I ve read this book Is it as good as I remember You betcha As you all know, I am athletically chI have always been accused of taking the things I love football, of course, but also books and records much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to meNo, you haven t imagined it I am reviewing a football book Or should I say, a book about an adorably idiotic Arsenal fan This is the second time I ve read this book Is it as good as I remember You betcha As you all know, I am athletically challenged I also have a crippling fear of ...First Hornby I ve read managed to avoid the brief college craze after High Fidelity came outbut now wish I hadn t.My roommate lent me this book after it came up randomly in a conversationas I approach 30 and sports fandom becomesridiculous proportional to my age, I find myself having to defend my enthusiasm for baseballandBeing in Europe probably has something to do with this too In fact, discussing my love of baseball generally turns into an argument for against the l First Hornby I ve read managed to avoid the brief college craze after High Fidelity came outbut now wish I hadn t.My roommate lent me this book after it came up randomly in a conversationas I approach 30 and...This is a complicated book On the one hand it is a narrow scoped, highly personal look at the shortcomings of one man and because of his obsession with a British football soccer team, one which I have a hard time thinking anyone but an Arsenal fan would enjoy On the other hand, it just might be the greatest sports book ever written, one that might lead those who don t get sports to understand how and why certain people they love can care so much about a bunch of grown men running around ch This is a complicated book On the one hand it is a narrow scoped, highly personal look at the shortcomings of one man and because of his obsession with a British football soccer team, one which I have a hard time thinking anyone but an Arsenal fan would enjoy On the other hand, it just might be the greatest sports book ever written, one that might lead those who don t get sports to understand how and why certain people they love can care so much about a bunch of grown men running around chasing after a ball Because of this conundrum, I want to recommend this book to everyone I know, but with the caveat that they will probably not enjoy it Hey you should read this I think you ll hate it The pull of Fever Pitch is Hornby relating his experience as a die hard sports fan in his case soccer , and what an unmerciful, miserable, but ultimately inescapable experience it truly is I find the prevailing sentiment carries over well to other sports and it comforts me, when I find myse...Just an okay book which is disappointing from this author I expectedThere were hints of his usual entertaining writing style and at least having grown up in the same time frame in the UK I did know some of what he was talking about However his descriptions of his obsession were actually very sad and he came across as a rather shallow and unlikeable individual I think I would have liked to hearabout his life and less about who kicked which goal at which match whenever I have to s Just an okay book which is disappointing from this author I expectedThere were hints of his usual entertaining writing style and at least having grown...Si, ho bevuto un bicchiere di rosso di troppo E allora Chi se ne frega Non vi preoccupate, non star qui a snocciolarvi la sua trama sono l unico che odia le recensioni che raccontano paro paro i fatti e il finale dei libri che avreste voluto leggere da un paio di anni Come non star qui a raccontarvi i motivi che mi hanno spinto a leggere e divorare questo bel libro Da un punto di vista razionale avrei potuto scrivere, ottenendo l approvazione unanime dei benpensanti questa autobiograf Si, ho bevuto un bicchiere di rosso di troppo E allora Chi se ne frega Non vi preoccupate, non star qui a snocciolarvi la sua trama sono l unico che odia le recensioni che raccontano paro paro i fatti e il finale dei libri che avreste voluto leggere da un paio di anni Come non star qui a raccontarvi i motivi che mi hanno spinto a leggere e divorare questo bel libro Da un punto di vista razionale avrei potuto scrivere, ottenendo l approvazione unanime dei benpensanti questa autobiografia l opera perfetta di uno stupido rappresentante maschile di una societ occidentale ormai in declino E invece vi dico questo libro una figata pazzesca E poc...I love this bookthan I can express I read it for the first time after a particularly painful baseball season Mariners expelled from the playoffs by demonic Yankees and I ve probably read it every year since I m actually reading it again right now because I am painfully baseball deprived until spring training Now I realize that it is not actually about baseball specifically and please, never speak to me about the Americanized movie starring Jimmy Fallon because I will cry and shriek I love this bookthan I can express I read it for the first time after a particularly painful baseball season Mariners expelled from the playoffs by demonic Yankees and I ve probably read it every year since I m actually reading it again right now because I am painfully baseball deprived until spring training Now I realize that it is not actually about baseball specifically and please, never speak to me about the Americanized movie starring Jimmy Fallon because I will cry and shriek but sometimes it s the only thing that can make me feel like part of the universe again after my brain has been completely taken over by baseball fanaticism and I need to come down In a review of Moneyball, Nick Hornby said this I understood about one in four words of Moneyball, and it s still the best and most engrossing sports book I ve read for years If you know anything abou...The football season ended with a huge sense of relief but almost instantly I was in pain at the thought of June and July, those two months of the year when I have to fill my mind with thoughts other than when are Arsenal playing next What time of the night do I set my alarm for The two months without football are the worst of the year Not least because now that I am living in Australia, as opposed to England, it s also winter It felt like the perfect time to finally revisit one of the book The football season ended with a huge sense of relief but almost instantly I was in pain at the thought of June and July, those two months of the year when I have to fill my mind with thoughts other than when are Arsenal playing next What time of the night do I set my alarm for The two months without football are the worst of the year Not least because now that I am living in Australia, as opposed to England, it s also winter It felt like the perfect time to finally revisit one of the books I ve enjoyed most in my life, the memoirs of Nick Hornby, the now celebrity Arsenal fan and writer of lit light novels that get turned in to not bad movies.Having initially read this book in 1994 at the age of 12, before my world changed in so many ways and before professional fo...Spassoso, vero e profondo Roddy Doyle, 1992 Mr Doyle dice la verit Procyon Lotor, 2009 E un romanzo di formazione, la formazione essendo quella dell Arsenal antico e famoso football club londinese Parla quindi di calcio, parla molto di calcio, della passione, in effetti il calcio da perfino il titolo ai capitoli, nei quali si narra la vita dell autore, meglio nei quali si narra la partita del momento e quindi i fatti della vita sempre narrati con wit e humour quando concesso dall eve Spassoso, vero e profondo Roddy Doyle, 1992 Mr Doyle dice la verit Procyon Lotor, 2009 E un romanzo di formazione, la formazione essendo quella dell Arsenal antico e famoso football club londinese Parla quindi di calcio, parla molto di calcio, della passione, in effetti il calcio da perfino il titolo ai capitoli, nei quali si narra la vita dell autore, meglio nei quali si narra la partita del momento e quindi i fatti della vita sempre narrati con wit e humour quando concesso dall evento naturalmente Pertanto se detestate i romanzi di formazi...I have been an Arsenal supporter for the past 12 years I have seen the ups and downs of the football team, I have shared their glory, I have shared their pain They have given me days where I would not have wished to be anywhere else, and they have given me days where I wondered why I got hooked onto them It has been a fan s journey, and it is going to continue to be, as I find myself in one of my biggest love hate relationships N...I just finished reading this book for the second time The first time I read it, I probably would have given it five stars something about the glimpse into Hornby s world enthralled me, but then I wasn t quite as familiar with the lifestyle of being a Premiership fan as I am now Set up as a series of essays, Fever Pitch depicts the life of a man who is much, muchthan a casual Arsenal fan, while much less than a hooligan It caters to everyone who...

Fever Pitch
  • English
  • 27 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • 1573226882
  • Nick Hornby
  • Fever Pitch