Fever Pitch | Fever Pitch

A true love story | Fever Pitch | Nick Hornby

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	• Fever Pitch Nick Hornby Riverhead Trade, 1998 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 137 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Make your teenage football obsessed kid read it.

So, I was 13 and assuming that the Arsenal fixation that had just taken over my life was just another one of my obsessions, which have come and gone all my life. It wasn't until I delved within the pages of Fever Pitch that I realised everything I felt had been felt before - and this was a great comfort to me. It's also one of the best written books I've ever encountered. Hornby's conversational style meant I never lost the meaning of the book even though some of the words were a little out of my vocabulary league at the time. Don't you just love books that make sense as soon as you are able to read, but make more sense when you pick them up again ten years later, and are therefore full of surprises? This is one such book. Have lost count of how many times I've read it, and everyone I lent it to has enjoyed it except my mum. What was it she didn't like about it again? Oh, here she is, I'll ask her. "I found the film more enjoyable, I find Nick Hornby quite hard to follow. I think I'm looking for a plot!" So if you like novels that have a clear beginning, middle and end, it might not be for you. If you like reflective writing which affirms and strengthens you - and is unbelievably funny in places, and puts an involuntary stupid smile on your face in others - then read it. Finally, I agree with the other reviewers that anyone can read this book. However, I do think it works best if you're a new football fan. Hornby himself came to the game late-ish, at eleven, and was surprised by the passions it inspired. I think some people whose dads took them to football when they were three don't really get it, because it's telling them what they already know. I'll shut up now. Read the book.

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Fever Pitch

My new favourite book. Well written and very amusing, it is The book about football, although I have given it to a friend who isn't into football and she enjoyed it enormously. Definitely a Must Read for football fans.

A true love story

Fever Pitch is mostly about football, but topics such as love and human relations are quite prominent in this well-written book by one of the most popular authors of Great Britain today.

In Fever Pitch we get to know Arsenal and its surroundings through the eyes of a local fan during 30 years. 30 years of both sorrow and happiness. Fever Pitch is therefore a true love story between a club and a local fan. No matter which team you support, this book will capture your heart from the first page. It's funny, compelling, clever, witty and quite sad at the same time, as we follow Nick Hornby's chase for success and everlasting glory for the Gunners. His inspiring view of life is spiced up with facts and of course results from Arsenal games. Hornby has linked his beloved Arsenal's highs and lows to his own personal life and it's a true pleasure to read his outstanding autobiography. Fever Pitch is definitely a great result of Hornby's obsession by football and especially Arsenal. This book shows the fabulous talent Hornby has as an author.

While I read Fever Pitch, I several times laughed out loud and sometimes got sympathy for Hornby. A football fan who lives and dies for his team, will probably know what Hornby has experienced through his life as a huge Gunners-fan.

Nick Hornby is an absolute master writing fascinating and of course exciting novels. His success-novel Fever Pitch is definitely worth reading! Give it a try, and I'll guarantee you'll be hooked already by page one. He mixes his long and sometimes complicated sentences, with some short and very precise ones. I think that is why the book is the best football and comedy book ever written.

If you haven't read this book before, it's high time to do that. If you should pick one book for the weekend, choose Fever Pitch. It's definitely one of the best books I've ever read.

Long live Nick Hornby!

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This is a book about identity, belonging, obsession; about afternoons in the driving rain and bitter cold and glorious, unforgettable goals; getting your head read in Hampstead and punched at Highbury; the dazzling skills of the gods of football and leaving your girlfriend lying fainted on the terraces because Arsenal are about to score. It's about the moments of ecstasy in one man's life. And his pain. And it's about the only true question there is: Which comes first, Football or Life?

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