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I know people liked the book and the film of High Fidelity equally, but I was your typical loved-the-book/disappointed-by-the-film when it came to this. Having said that, I read the book knowing about the film and I enjoyed picturing John Cusack in the lead role. (Hell I read the book because I knew John Cusack was playing the lead role.) An enjoyable read either way.

Didn't love this book...thought the author really lost the plot and meandered too much. It reminded me of reading Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, where there are hundreds of pages of tangents that barely relate to the main story. She creates interesting characters and describes the scenery well, but the overall effect was lacking and couldn't keep my interest.

When I picked this book I didn't expect much. And I was right. The development of the story is too slow that I'm actually surprised I finished it so fast. The real action started at about 70% of the book. Before that point it's just all about theories. And the theories themselves aren't as fascinating as the author might have thought. Free will? Fixed future? Too banal. There were a couple of theories that I liked though, especially exclusion principle applied to future/past but the rest was just meh. I think the creators of the tv show did much better, took the best out of the book. Too pity it got cancelled.