A Long Way Down
15th Dec 2022
Nick Hornby
First book I have read of Nick. I have seen the movie adaptions of High Fidelity and About a Boy and enjoyed them. This one is about 4 suicidal people that meet on a rooftop on new years eve. They then help each other. I liked being introduced to peoples live this way. I just did not get attached to the characters and it lacked meaning of life stuff. Each chapter is from an individual perspective, that got tiresome as even the grammar and format changed.
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- Restaurant at the End of the Universe 2
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- Far From the Madding Crowd
- It Shouldnt Happen to a Vet
- Heavy Weather
- Misspent Youth
- The Bolivian Times
- Guards Guards
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- Land
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- Equal Rights 3
- Uneasy Rider
- The Great Arc
- Interesting Times
- Latitude and the Magnetic Earth
- The Old Patagonia Express
- Prairie Fever
- Eavesdropping on Jane Austens England
- Eleven Minutes Late
- The Osterman Weekend
- If Only They Could Talk
- The Pillars of Hercules
- Chocky
- The Lights of Cobb and Co
- Bomb Book and Compass
- Red Dwarf
- The Sky People
- Payback
- How Green Was My Curate
- A Light History of Hot Air
- O-Zone
- 2021
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- Wanderers of Time
- Dark Space
- Portrait of Dr Gachet
- How We Became Human
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- The Last Continent
- Steak For Breakfast
- Thin Paths
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- The Colour of Magic
- The Land Before Avocado
- Wintersmith
- Algorithms to Live By
- The Racketeer
- The Island of the Colourblind
- The $100 Startup
- Larkin About in Ireland
- Measuring The Universe
- Inherit The Earth
- Prelude To Space
- Thief of Time
- The Difference Engine
- Life inc
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- Witches Abroad
- 2020
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- Natural Born Keller
- By the Shores of Silver Lake
- Mail Obsession
- Stumbling on Happiness
- The Tangled Lands
- Small Gods
- Utopian Man
- The Mandibles
- On the Banks of Plum Creek
- How Proust Can Change Your Life
- The Body - A Guide for Occupants
- Jaywalking with the Irish
- Breaking Good
- The Ancient Paths
- On Our Selection
- The Book Club
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Spare Room Tycoon
- The Dragonbone Chair
- The Vampire Armand
- Going Postal
- The Moneymaker
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- So, Anyway
- The Rum Diary
- Bossypants
- The Hinge Factor
- Equal Rites 2
- The Magic of Reality
- Our Uncle Charlie
- The Book Thief
- The Natural Way Of Things
- The Art Of Travel
- Madeleines In Manhattan
- The Parentations
- Pyramids 2
- The Rebel Rules
- 2019
- Hammerjack
- Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy 2
- Mr Rosenblums List
- Mindswap
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- The Raw Shark Texts
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- Heavy Weather
- Zero History
- The House in South Road
- Deadly Kerfuffle
- Unseen Academicals
- Grass For His Pillow
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- Overcomplicated
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- The Power of Meaning
- Move Fast and Break Things
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- The Water Knife
- Deaf Sentence
- The Greatest Show On Earth
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- Yes Man
- The Prodigal Sun
- Past Mortem
- A Monk Swimming
- Father in a Fix
- The Dice Man
- Strata
- The Bad Mothers Revenge
- Uneasy Rider
- The Dark Side of the Sun
- A Most Damnable Invention
- Mad as Rabbits
- Drink, Smoke, Pass Out
- That Old Ace in the Hole
- Red Teaming
- The Invention of Nature
- The Lucy Family Alphabet
- Across the Nightingale Floor
- Parecon - Life After Capitalism
- Temple of the Winds
- Changing Places
- Wrecking Crew
- Interface
- Rough Trader
- 2017
- Barricade
- Sweet Miseries
- Men at Arms
- Elon Musk
- The Mammoth Hunters
- Sam Walton: Made in America
- Starship Titanic
- Medium Raw
- American Psycho
- The Riddle and the Knight
- The Road to Little Dribbling
- Neuromancer
- Wild Ride
- My Life as a Fake
- David and Goliath
- The Shepherd's Crown
- The Valley of Horses
- Whats The Odds?
- Hal Spacejock
- Not For Publication
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- Clan of the Cave Bear
- Brave New World
- Hawk - Occupation Skateboarder
- Nymphomation
- Made in America
- Pasteur's Gambit
- Roger Rogerson
- Mostly Harmless
- So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Lord of Light
- Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
- 2016
- Full Bore
- Guards! Guards!
- Idoru
- The Olive Farm
- Small Is The New Big
- Rare Books Uncovered
- A Life In Parts
- Gone Troppo
- Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- Less Than Zero
- Blood of the Fold
- Wyrd Sisters
- A Brief History of the Age of Steam
- Neither Here Nor There
- Stone of Tears
- Uriels Machine
- Pyramids
- Ready Player One
- Wizards First Rule
- The Broken Shore
- Botany of Desire
- Everyday Traders
- Sourcery
- Longitude
- Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
- Ship Breaker
- The Drawing of the Dark
- Mort
- Beyond the Chains of Illusion
- A Quantum Murder
- Talking with Kids
- All Tomorrows Parties
- Rigged
- Lost Geography
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- Mindstar Rising
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- A Walk in the Woods
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- Colour of Magic
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