Resumo de High Fidelity

The main character of the Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" (there was also a film under the same title) is thirtyfive year-old Rob Fleming. Rob owns small record shop and hires his two best friends: Berry and Dick. They are huge fans of music and every one of them believes that his music taste is the best. Their main activity is compiling all the sorts of lists like"ten best songs about death", composing cassettes with lists of their best hits and making fun of the clients. We meet Rob, the narrator of the novel, when his girlfrend Laura leaves him. He tries to get to understand why his next relationship is a failure. To resolve this problem he chooses to meet with all the important woman of his life and ask them why they broke up finally. In the meantime he has an affair with "american artist" Marie La Salle and gets to know that Laura has moved to his naighbour: Ian, of whose lovelive they used to make such fun. We start to know better about friends of Rob and see how their dreams come true. Dick finds a girlfriend and Barry a music group,which needs a vocalist. As the investigation goes by, we start to know Rob better and better. The reader simple have to like the main charachter who is so lost, unserious and so afraid to make his dreams come true. Sometimes he acts as he was a boy,when for example he phones to Laura and hungs up just as he hears her voice. Finally, after meeting Rob at the funeral of her futher, Laura chooses to come back to him. She is a lawyer with succesfull career. She makes a decision to help Rob to find the most important things in his life,to find the way. With her own money she re-opens a club in which Rob used to be a DJ and where they met each other. Some kind of breaktrough in the novel is the scene of a dinner at Lauras friends house. Rob has a nice evening with fantastic people. Just a moment before leaving Laura makes him to look at the shelf with one of the worst collection of cd's he has ever seen. The book is something real great for music funs who would identify with the main character, as he judges people by gettig to know their best bands. It is a story about a guy who is afraid of being adult and puts the blame on the peolpe. As we go through the book we can see as he is getting more and more adult without loosing his youth ideals. "High Fidelity" simply and with humor treats about the problems of modern young people.

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