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Completed	April 2010
Title	Juliet Naked
Author	Nick Hornby
Published	2009
Quote	"He listened from beginning to end twice more while sitting on the bench, and then started to walk home during the third play. One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it."
Review	Don't get me wrong. I like Nick Hornby well enough. I loved the first book I read of his, High Fidelity. Then I naturally sought out his work and subsequently read About a Boy and How To Be Good. So, Juliet Naked is my fourth Hornby book, and all I've got to say is, enough! This is the last Hornby I'll read. His tales just seem to get progressively worse. What started with good writing and a strong story line in High Fidelity seems to have fallen. Hornby always seems to write about male angst, and his male characters seem to always whine and wonder and ponder, like a silly adolescent girl. What's interesting and funny to read in the first novel rapidly became mundane as I finished this fourth novel. I did not like Juliet Naked at all.

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