How to Be Good
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According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?
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This book is exactly what I was waiting for: a fun and light reading, combined with some very acute and deep observations about the human condition. Besides that, the book added quite a twist with the introduction of DJ GoodNews, adding tons of weirdness and unexpected moments that greatly help to develop and conflict the rest of the characters.
“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroine addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
I remember reading this book, but I don't know why I didn't leave a review. I thought it was an ok book. A bit hard for me to read.
