Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books

ISBN: 9781940450360
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"How often do you begin reading a book that makes you--immediately, urgently, desperately--want to read more books?" (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade's worth of books, as related in his wildly popular Believer column "Stuff I've Been Reading."

Ten Years in the Tub is a one-way ticket into the mind of one of the most beloved contemporary writers on his favorite pastime, but it's also a meditation on what Celine Dion can teach us about ourselves, a warning about how John Updike can ruin our sex lives, and a recommendation for the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days. This "decade-long addiction for many... makes standing in line at the bank a blessed interval for snorting another page." (the New York Times Book Review)

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Hornby, Nick
  • ISBN: 9781940450360
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 1.50
  • Number Of Pages: 464
  • Publication Year: 2014

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  • A funny collection of a humorist's thoughts on "stuff he's been reading"

    Steve L. - 7 years 3 months ago

    This book collects ten years' worth of the monthly "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns Nick Hornby wrote for the magazine The Believer. Each column/book chapter begins with two lists: "Books bought" and "Books read." The lists never match. Hornby can be capricious about his reading choices and about his comments on the books, but that's part of the fun. There will be some books mentioned that you have read, others you'll want to put on your own list, and still others you'll no doubt choose to avoid, despite the fact that Hornby's column, like its host magazine, has a policy not to include negative reviews. He's a fine humorist, so it's pleasurable reading, regardless of where you fall with his choices.

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