High Fidelity

This book that i'm reading, High Fidelity, is really interesting? The guy, Rob, is basically a bum. he owns his own record shop in London, but its not doing to hot. He has had to borrow money to keep from going under, his girlfriend (who was living with him) left him for the guy who lived in the apartment above him, and he has this weird desire; he feels that to bring closure to his past, he has to meet up with all of his his top five worst break-ups and ask them why they rejected him.His struggles are really interesting and funny.

Throughout his journey, mid-life crisis, rediscovery, whatever tickles your fancy, he compares his problems to the one bearing in his life, music. His life becomes this endless playlist of different genres and melodies. At soon as his most recent girlfriend, Laura, leaves him, he re-organizes his whole record collection. His music is his life, therefore, by reorganizing it, he is reorganizing himself. He does it chronologically to how he bought the records, instilling in himself a purpose to get to the bottom of his problems by looking at where they started, chronologically. While Rob is trying to sort through his mess of a life, he meets this American singer, Marie. He has always wanted to get with a recording artist, which Marie is, and with an American, which she also is. He finds himself disoriented and, often times, off-guard by her frankness and classic American attitude.

The way Rob narrates his story, relating everything through albums and different songs, made me wonder what if we all do this, which to a point we do. Its like when school is hard or there is a girl you like that you don't know how to ask out, you put your problems into terms you understand. Everyone has something their good at and I feel like that's where your problems go. For me I can put stuff in wrestling terms and its funny to think about your problems in such terms, but it works because its all relative. Relating your problems like this puts the seemingly unsolvable in the simplest terms to yourself.