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 enlarge | Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 19051
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1573226882
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.3340941
EAN: 9781573226882
ASIN: 1573226882
Publication Date: March 1, 1998
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 Fever Pitch February 16, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book. An excellent account of what it means to be a loyal fan or supporter.
 Great read January 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only thing keeping me from giving this book 5 stars is my own complete lack of interest in anything soccer-related. Take that personal bias out, and its a great read. The insight into the soccer culture in the UK is frankly frightening, but in a very funny way. Having lived through the Denver Bronco Super-Bowl failures of the 1980's as a kid, I empathized with Hornby as he details his own irrational emotions growing up as a fan.
I think anyone, sports fan or not, will enjoy this book. Sports fans because they empathize, non-fans because it will help explain the mystery.
A great look at sports and life October 15, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let me begin by noting that I find soccer/football incredibly dull. Dull, dull, dull! But Hornby's book is a great read.
He gives excellent insights as to sports obsession, one with which many men can identify. He is never sentimental or glorifying of the game or of his own actions, which are sometimes far from noble. He admits to placing his love of Arsenal above his relationships. But he also never comes across as a jerk.
I would love to sit down and have a few pints and watch a game with him.
The one thing I can't understand is how this could be made into a movie about the Red Sox. It just couldn't work, in my opinion.
The Mind of The Hardcore Sports Fan June 24, 2006
Hornby takes the reader into the mind and obsessions of the hardcore sports fan in "Fever Pitch", a tale of the author's obsessive relationship with Arsenal, one of London's main football (soccer) clubs.
Many of the reviewers here note that the book is filled with detail about English soccer, and that therefore it was dull and boring for them. The reality is that this is precisely what Hornby intended to convey: how the diehard fanatical fan is obsessed with numerous details and trivia surrounding the team they support, well beyond a level that is comprehensible to any non-hardcore fan. Americans who read the book assume that they can't relate because of a lack of familiarity with English football, but in reality what Hornby is portraying is the most obsessive sort of football fan you could ever come across, something the "typical" English sports fan cannot relate to either. And he portrays it by allowing you inside his mind, giving you a guided tour of just how obsessive and extreme he was (and is) about football and about Arsenal in particular ... giving the reader an insight into the mind of an obsessive sports fan, rather than providing a detached analysis of what makes such a person tick.
For those who are interested in understanding how the mind of a hardcore sports fan works, "Fever Pitch" is without equal. Even if American readers find the football references unfamilliar, the more telling aspect is the obsessiveness with which Hornby recalls numerous minutae, the lengths to which he has gone in his life to support his Arsenal obsession ... these are commonalities of mindset that apply to obsessive fans of all sports, including those familiar to Americans, and the mindset that Hornby portrays in this book will help all readers better understand just what is going on inside the minds of their own local sports fanatics.
Reveals the behavior of a typical fanatic soccer fan! June 30, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
All Arsenal soccer fans should read this book by Nick Hornby. It shows his obsession for Arsenal with a fine sense of humor and wit. It is filled with RAW honesty which will definitely increase the male hormones of the British working class-soccer fans.
Hornby also shows his passion for the ups and downs of the typical fan of Arsenal. His emotional outbursts are extreme (to say the least) and would leave the reader laughing on the floor. A MUST read!
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