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From the beloved New York Times- bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love.
Annie loves Duncan-or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life.
In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they’ve got. Tucker’s been languishing (and he’s unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin-his young son, Jackson. But then there’s also the new material he’s about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, Juliet-entitled, Juliet, Naked.
What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one’s promise……..
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“Welcome back, Mr Hornby” 2009-12-06
By Teenage Nerdfighter (Melbourne, Australia)
I really enjoyed this book. I’m a huge fan of Nick Hornby and I was probably a little bit biased going in to read Juliet, Naked, as I thought I’d love it immediately. And I did.
I really enjoyed the book and thought it was a great read up until Tucker comes to England. After that point I felt it deteriorated a bit – the story wasn’t as good as it was when he and Annie were exchanging emails.
I loved the detail in it and the whole persona of Tucker. I felt as if Tucker really was this great rock star that I maybe could have heard of and the wikipedia articles help that.
Overall, the majority of the book is fantastic, and while I feel that the ending fails a bit, so did the ending in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and I stil think that’s an amazing book.
“About a Book – Hornby, Naked” 2009-12-05
By A. Gift For You (Edmonton, AB)
If you like Nick Hornby, then this book is not wasted on you. The guy’s got mad skillz. As someone who was religious about High Fidelity, incredibly moved by About a Boy & How to be Good, and absolutely Spellbound by Long Way Down, I must claim some token familiarity with the man’s work.
And yet. And yet.
This one never really came together for me.
The Fake Wikipedia entry was a nice touch, but I was less moved by the back-and-forth emails; again, this is personal opinion, not critical gospel. I personally think epistolary novels are the pits.
The characters are well done; Annie & Tucker especially, though I wasn’t happy with what I felt was lack of resolution in the end. Tucker’s story we get, Annie’s, mostly, but Duncan seems to drop off the face of the book.
The changes in POV were occasionally jarring, and some of the dialogue attrition could have been clearer.
And yet. And yet.
This is Nick Hornby we’re talking about. The worst 8 hours I’ve ever spent with his books are still far better than most anything out there.
Also, I would now like to hear the album Juliet, and am somewhat pissed that it doesn’t exist 
“Great story, different than anything else out there” 2009-11-28
By duvalfleuri
Typical Nick Hornby, well written, compelling. I liked the characters and they are well developed. The writing style gets you sucked in right away.
“Funny, touching and insightful” 2009-11-27
By Daniel Bell (Northeast Ohio)
I loved High Fidelity, so in a minor fit of extravagance, I bought Juliet in hard cover because it isn’t out in paperback yet. Hard cover lasts longer passed around among friends, and I certainly want to pass this one around. As a lesbian trapped in a redneck ex-jock’s body, I just can’t resist a good romantic comedy, and Hornby is an insightful investigator of the unending permutations of one heart’s attraction to another.
A common motif in Hornby’s writing is the influence of and obsession with music. In this case, we have a man obsessed with a reclusive rock star who hasn’t recorded in twenty years, the fixated but formal stalker’s long suffering girlfriend, and a bitter, retired musician with too many ex-wives, children he doesn’t know, no money and a creative well run dry.
I read the 406 pages in two days. I just don’t do that. Not since Lonesome Dove, anyway. Hornby manages to explore the role of artifice in art, the question of whether obsession can be benign, and the possibility of romance anchored in the messy real world, all while making me laugh out loud nearly every other page.
Buy it now. Hornby deserves to be rich for helping renew my faith in fiction. If this isn’t in production as the third Hornby screenplay adaptation (About a Boy, High Fidelity) then it will be soon.
“Close To Home” 2009-11-20
By Obscuropeia (Kansas City, USA)
I only had to know a couple of things to buy this book — it was by Nick Hornby and it was about an obscure reclusive musician.
Sure enough, I could relate to several of the characters and situations in the book.
Shortly after my wife also enjoyed reading the book, we received a new CD anthology that included a song by our close friend, an obscure and reclusive rock star. There was a picture included that mis-identified our friend, and we howled with delight that this was just the sort of situation that Hornby’s Duncan would have taken to heart and obsessed over. And spread to the far corners of the seas.
This book is especially fun if you have a passion for something a bit out of the mainstream. Me, I’m exclusively into those obscure musicians working on their own little mountain tributaries, far from the main stream. So, it was a delight to read.
I sometimes find it hard to write about the music I love so much, and it’s great to see somebody writing well about music nobody has heard — or made.
If they do make it into a movie, our friend could easily create the songs to the playlist on Hornby’s fictitious album.
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