A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby.
This is my first Hornby book, but I picked it up because I enjoyed High Fidelity, the film, and I have no idea how faithful it is to Hornby's book. Based on what I knew from High Fidelity, I expected it to be a bit funnier - but then was High Fidelity all that funny? I guess not. I enjoyed this book, though I wanted it to be funnier. I suppose that I thought the premise of the book - four social opposites meet each other on top of a high-rise that they all planned to fling themselves from on New Year's eve - would lead to ye ol' crazy hijinks but it was a more medium set of hijinks. Ah, jeez, what am I saying? I'm not sure...