Nick Hornby
Riverhead Books, 1995
323 pages
Yesterday one of my students told me he is binge-watching
Dynasty. Wait, WHAT???? Isn’t that
80’s decadent glamour soap? Yeah,
he says, it’s a remake. I just
read an article in something about how there are so many remakes of 80’s and
90‘s TV shows; One Day at a time- with an updated Latina cast, Fuller House- older same cast without
the twins, Will and Grace, older and still gay, but less taboo of being
gay. This is happening because the
people who grew-up watching these shows are now the producers and executives of
television, and thus the nostalgia of their youth are being relived for the
next generation. But really,
Dynasty?
So in the same nostalgic vein, I re-read another book from
my past: Nick Hornby’s High
Fidelity. Then continuing on my nostalgic track, I re-watched the movie with
the same title, starring John Cusack and Jack Black. This is the equivalent of chick-lit for dudes,
dude-lit. Making top five lists,
angst of relationship foibles, slacker dude being unsure of his future along
with his oddball friends, sleeping around, etc.
This book, just like Catcher in the Rye, is a period piece,
and seemed very sophomoric to revisit in my middle age years. The movie however, was enjoyable to
watch, (especially Jack Black in his breakout roll) even though the setting had
changed from London to Chicago.
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