Evaluatio

Evaluation    **Our class were about to have a reading project, and we headed out to the library to find books. High Fidelity stood out in the bookshelf as a funny novel that was easy to read at the same time. In the following I am going to tell you my opinion about the book and how I felt when I read it.**

At first I thought it was a good book because it was very easy to read. This is important for me when I am about to read an English book because it can be very hard to understand. Often it also feels like you never get caught by the story, since you use so much time at every sentence.

The book takes you with storm from the first page. It is not one of those boring starts we have read a billion of times before. You, as the reader, are thrown into the middle of a breakup between Rob and Laura. Further on, Rob starts telling us about all the earlier women he has dated. This came as a surprise on me, because I haven’t seen a book that has been build up this way before. I liked this part especially good, because he told everything quickly, there weren’t much dull with unimportant details and the chapters were short. In Norwegian, this book could have accord a bit boring and easy to me, but in English it was perfect.

When it continued to Rob’s present, it suddenly became boring. There was much talking that I didn’t understand and I missed the story. Luckily, I found out that they had made a movie about High Fidelity. After I saw this, everything got much easier: now I know a bit about how the story developed. This is probably the reason why I was able to finish the book.

Unfortunately, I never saw the humour in High Fidelity. The reason for that can be that I didn’t understand everything or the fact that I rarely laugh of television-programs or books. On the other hand, I could identify with Rob’s feeling of being outside the group sometimes and don’t fit in. It was good to read a book that told me that everyone has bad days. It is books like this, which is about real feelings, I define as good.

All in all, I found the book worth reading. I like the fact that it is easy to read, not too thick, is about real feelings and has curious characters. The things I didn’t find quite that good was all the writing about Rob’s thoughts, the fact that the story sometimes went a bit slow and it was some difficult words. Nevertheless, it was must likely good for my vocabulary to read a book at this level. Nick Hornby has made a good peace of work.

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