My all time top five favourite things about high fidelity:
1- the top fives
2- the mix tapes
3- existential angst
4- immature narcissistic narrator
5- it‘s not what you like, it‘s what you‘re like.

So going of number 5, even if you don‘t like high fidelity, I can still (theoretically) like you.

Warning: book has very little to do with picnics. Only on a few occasions does Hemingway picnic. I wanted more picnic, and less f.scott penis. All in all worth reading just for Hemingway‘s roasts on other writers. Eg = I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

Good book, probably worth at least 15 frogs, 17 frogs in a pinch. But I‘d recommend waiting for a special at lee chongs, and paying only 12 frogs for this fine book.

Reading a Book? Don‘t actually read the book, just hold it really tight so your forearms bulge out. Every time you turn a page, rip it out, because you are too strong to hold paper.

My favourite book. Simple as that.

Great book, self loathing in Mexico, suddenly I‘m not overly concerned by my coffee addiction.

Made me drink more and take up gambling. Would recommend

I never knew garlic had white flowers. Thank you Bram Stoker. I was of the opinion they just appeared in a mist inside my fridge.

Made me want to become an alcoholic dick. If you ask any of my friends though I‘m already both of those things.

I feel the true powerhouse of writing is whoever made the screenplay.... amazing concept which I‘m overfamiliar with now but maybe the movie was better??? Chuck is still my idol.

Fun small read. If sex with dead bodies isn‘t your thing, stay away. If sex with dead bodies is your thing, see a doctor.

A damn shame we didn‘t get more novels From such an amazing voice.

Love John. I feel just reading his story has made me a more honest person. And for McCarthy I didn‘t find myself wincing from violence... probably my favourite writer.

I‘ll never look at my own scalp the same way again. Or my babies ankles 😭

I will now forever be on the look out for men wearing a triple button wool Armani suit with a white pocket square. Matching slacks. Sterling tie clip holding a cornflower blue tie from polo. Non prescription frames from Burberry and a new Sony Walkman with headphones gently wrapping moose backed hair.

Made me want to try fishing. To find the real me at sea. Got sea sick 🤢 just gonna stick to reading.

I was pretty sure I didn‘t want to go to war. Now I‘m certain.

Nadsat really takes the sting out of written violence. But once you have a better idea of it and contextually everything works 😱

This books written so well, it made me realise just how bad at writing I am.