Not only does it make you want to read more but, like all great books, it's also terrific company.
For anyone whose idea of a good time is arguing with friends about their favourite books...amusing and contagiously enthusiastic.
This is not a book of reviews. This is not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading - about enjoying books wherever and however you find them.
Nick Hornby is first and foremost a reader and he approaches books like the rest of us: hoping to pick up one he can't put down. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is a diary of sorts, charting his reading life over two years. It is a celebration of why we read - its pleasures, its disappointments and its surprises.
And above all, it is for you - the ever hopeful reader.
INTRODUCTION
SEPTEMBER 2003
OCTOBER 2003
NOVEMBER 2003
DECEMBER 2003/JANUARY 2004
GEORGE AND SAM: AUTISM IN TIlE FAMILY
FEBRUARY2004
MARCH 2004
APRIL 2004
MAY 2004
DAVID COPPERFIELD
JUNE 2004
'IMPOSSIBLE DREAM'
JULY 2004
AUGUST 2004
SEPTEMBER 2004
OCTOBER 2004
TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY
NOVEMBER 2004
A LIFE IN LETTERS
FEBRUARY 2005
MARCH 2005
ASSASSINATION VACATION
APRIL 2005
MAY 2005
JUNE/JULY 2005
AUGUST 2005
SEPTEMBER 2005
CITIZEN VINCE
OCTOBER 2005
NOVEMBER 2005
FEBRUARY 2006
MARCH 2006
GHOSTING
April 2006
THEN WE CAME TO THE END
MAY 2006
PERSEPOLIS
JUNE 2006
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX OF STUFF HE'S BEEN READING