This was something that was understood by Hornby, but often goes over the heads of the movie’s fans. Rob Gordon was, in fact, a terrible human-a sociopathic womanizer, a stalker ex, and a shitty boyfriend. But, despite having a lifestyle music geeks could aspire to, Rob Gordon was not a character to be admired.

Gordon was either the coolest nerd or the nerdiest cool guy.

After all, from the perspective of guys who still live at home, Rob had an enviable lifestyle: he worked the dream job of owning his own record store, he was by default the least socially awkward member of his social circle which included Jack Black and Todd Louiso, and, most impressive to romantically inept music fanboys, he somehow managed to routinely bed women exceedingly hotter than himself. To the sorts of “nice guys” who grew up valuing pop culture knowledge over athletic ability, the character became something of a cult hero. |1 .High Fidelity introduced the world to Rob Gordon, a sad-sack music obsessive who is perpetually mid-break-up. |a Young men |0 |z England |0 |v Fiction. |a Popular music fans |0 |z England |0 |v Fiction. |a New York : |b Riverhead Books, |c 1995. lang CDs that this implies, might not be so bad. And Rob begins to think (awful as it sounds) that life as an episode of thirtysomething, with all the kids and marriages and barbecues and k.d. But maybe it's just that he's always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Rob tries dating a singer whose rendition of 'Baby, I Love Your Way' makes him cry. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films (Reservoir Dogs.) to five Elvis Costello songs ('Alison'.) top five episodes of Cheers (the one where Woody sang his stupid song to Kelly.). His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. Now a major motion picture from Touchstone Pictures starring John Cusack. The romantic trials of the owner of a London record shop, after his girlfriend leaves him for another man.

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