Transcript Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch
Title: Fever Pitch
Author: Nick Hornby
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 272
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 1573226882
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 7.8 MB
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Description
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.
Insightful reviews
Pi P.: For someone who's only background on football are a handful of Azkal games and
pictures of hot shirtless football players my friends try to entice me with, I honestly loved this
book.
Nick Hornby tends to get too technical with his descriptions (and maybe, as a responsible
reader, I should've at least tried to look up(/ask my friends about) the terms? but I'm lazy af) but
that didn't take away from the experience. I'm honestly glad I made the executive decision to
pace myself while reading it instead of rushing my way through it, because I would've probably
skimmed through everything and missed the fandom experience. The book's depiction of
fandom resonates so well to me even if I don't give a fck about Arsenal/football. I recognized
myself in Hornby liking loyalty to a wart you're stuck with (hello problematic faves), his
regression, his treatment of football as a crutch, etc. (just replace "football" with Niall Horan.
lolJK I'm actually cooler than this, but I did enjoy the fact that one of Arsenal's greatest is named
Niall lol)
Having said that, I wish I was equipped with at least a basic knowledge of how football actually
works, or how clubs work in the UK before reading this because that definitely would've added
to the whole experience. But I'm definitely going to walk away with appreciation for Arsenal and
football culture in general, deeper than my casual love for hot football players.
Fever Pitch is a tribute to football and Arsenal in all their glory, warts and all, but Nick's love
(obsession??) for the game and ~journey~ with football is something anyone can relate to,
whatever their fandom may be.
Andrew Maccann: A tale of addiction and obsession, albeit not one we'd readily think of. A very
funny insight into the delusion that is being a football supporter... no, a football fanatic, where
the author lays bare all his highs, lows and personal insights while following Arsenal FC.
Arguably it's essential reading for anyone who knows a friend, family member or lover with a
passion for sport & they just can't understand the rationale behind their compulsion. It's certainly
a "warts and all" portrayal, as while the prose is often very witty and self-deprecating, you can
see the underlining remorse (if that's not too strong a word to use) the author feels; that perhaps
his obsession hasn't always been a positive in his life.
Ed: First Hornby I've read--managed to avoid the brief college craze after High Fidelity came
out...but now wish I hadn't.
My roommate lent me this book after it came up randomly in a conversation...as I approach 30
and sports fandom becomes more ridiculous proportional to my age, I find myself having to
defend my enthusiasm for baseball more and more. Being 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 legitimacy/prominence of professional sports in our lives generally, and this
inevitably leads, in my current context, to pointless self-righteous circle-jerks about football
hooliganism. Suddenly I'm being handed a book about an English football fan.
At any rate, I find Fever Pitch to be cogent defense of passionate sports fandom, with all the
sheepish acknowledgments of occasionally 'overdoing it' that this obviously requires. It is
thoughtful, well-written and funny, and describes the windy path of a personal/professional life
as it develops alongside and sometimes in direct relation to the game-to-game, season-toseason drama of FC Arsenal in London.
Now, I am nowhere near as crazy and obsessed a Twins fan as Hornby is an Arsenal fan, but to
the extent that I nonetheless have to hear questions like 'can you go a day without talking about
baseball?' fairly frequently, I feel personally identified with his sometimes indignant self-defense.
Now instead of trying to explain in the same old tired ways what is so exciting about baseball
(which is obviously barking up the wrong tree in the first place considering the glaze that
appears in any interlocutor's eyes the moment you use the word 'strategy,' much less 'intense
personal struggle'), I can just recommend this book and let the chips fall where they may.
You either understand it or you don't...
Serena!: 2.5*Ho provato a scindere l. a. storia e l'Hornby narratore, sempre gradevole e
accattivante, ma niente: los angeles prima ha avuto uil sopravvento sull'altra e non riesco a
dare tre stelline :(La verità vera è che sono l'antisportività (e l'anti-calcio) fatta persona. Cioè,
quando veniva distribuita los angeles pazienza, los angeles calma e il buon senso, io ero lì
advert attardarmi alla coda del "No Maria according to me il calcio è no!", chiedendo anche un
piccolo additional in line with cadere in catalessi di fronte a omini random che corrono dietro un
pallone.. Ecco, è andata così.So che sono ingiusta - il calcio mi annoia, perché leggere dunque
un libro che ha questo tema come argomento? In fondo non ho iniziato il libro aspettandomi un
trattato di astrofisica e restando ingannata con un'autobiografia di un fan sfegatato..
probabilmente Hornby non si meritava una lettrice così ingrata ma mia discolpa c'è da dire che
forse mi aspettavo qualcosa di meno 'settoriale' e più godibile e accessibile anche a quelle
persone che non saprebbero distinguere due squadre nemmeno se una delle due fosse aliena:
prendiamo in keeping with esempio "Il resto della settimana" di De Giovanni: è un libro sul
calcio ma mi ha trasmesso entusiasmo e gioia, mi ha fatto sentire parte di qualcosa (.... di cosa
non lo so, ma fidatevi :D), mi ha divertito e intrattenuto.Il libro di Hornby è positivo perché
l'autore racconta los angeles sua vita e ci regala un sacco di aneddoti (e poi a me l. a. sua
ironia piace da morire!).. Però in step with trovare queste piccole perle tocca soffrire con
squadre e nomi, con partite che a me non dicono niente, con un Arsenal odiato e amato in
egual misura..Niente, mi è partito un sonno a volte!!!!
Anne: i'm an enormous Nick Hornby fan. i like his humorousness and get a hot comfortable
feeling each time I learn his writing. So, i made a decision to select up this book, that is just a
little a memoir interested by Hornby's obsession with soccer (or soccer, looking on the country).
This was once like a activities model of The Orchid Thief. it's not that i am partial to soccer, do
not know the avid gamers or the teams. Yet, I loved this book. occasionally he will get a bit
heavy at the online game details, yet he tells adequate tales approximately his formative years
and makes use of football as a metaphor for adequate issues in existence that this held my
interest. i'd certainly suggest this to a person who loves football (Arenal is Hornby's team) or
Hornby in general. it is also a daunting glimpse into the character of obsessions. no longer a
must-read, but in addition now not a foul technique to move the time.
Andrew: So, bit of a soccer fan. yet no longer in Nick Hornby's division.There's now not much
available in the market that captures what it skill to aid a club. The agony. via the
disappointment. via the pain. With the occasional second of ineffable pleasure on the little flick
sending a defender the inaccurate way. Hornby will get this. was once he improper to disregard
the services physique of his collapsed female friend and proceed cheering the lads?Absolutely
not.Because the group wanted him. And this is often what he explains in a memoir that captures
a life of football. The bizarre, masochistic, symbiotic (perhaps parasitic) courting among a
supporter and his club.Too undesirable he helps the inaccurate one.Also on Twitter and Tumblr
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