Goodnight Steve McQueen
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Book Overview
romantic-yet very edgy-novel set in the music industry about friendship,
love, growing up, and always following your dreams.
Danny McQueen has dreamed of being a pop star since he was thirteen-years-old. Now he's twenty-nine and still dreaming. But he faces a dilemma. His girlfriend Alison wants him to sort his life out. She's given him an ultimatum: Find a record deal by the end of the year or it's find a new girlfriend. When is it time to give up on your childhood ambitions? When is it time to stop watching Columbo in your underpants and get a proper job? Is six months long enough for one last assault on the big time? Is friendship ever more important than love? Is it just your imagination or can your girlfriend always tell when you've been looking at Internet porn? With the help of his boss Kostas, his two best friends, and an eighty-year-old Kung Fu enthusiast called Sheila, Danny McQueen is about to find out.
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Rated 5 starsGOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN By Louise Wener
Goodnight Steve McQueen is a 2002 novel by British author Louise Wener and it can be described in one word: fabulous. Fans of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity rejoice, this novel, while similar, is every bit as humorous, heartfelt, and fun to read as Hornby's 1995 cult classic. Wener- stunningly mature with her first novel after fronting British pop band Sleeper in the mid-1990s- uses dry humor like a lethal weapon in this novel...
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Rated 5 starshmmm...
don't get me wrong, i am a huge sleeper fan and will probably buy all of louise wener's books, but did anyone else notice she begins both "goodnight steve mcqueen" and "the perfect play" with "do you remember the _____?" huh.
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Rated 5 starsAbout on a par with Hornby's High Fidelity
I busted out laughing about thirty or forty times reading Goodnight, Steve McQueen. I even know most English slang. The author's experience in a good-to-great pop band (Sleeper - but they didn't get great reviews and played for starvation wages), supporting grotty talentless bands is more believable than Hornby's take on it - he's ONLY a fan and he knows some musicians, but it's not the same. I love the tawdry details of...
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Rated 5 starsHornby without the pomposity, but...
Like the best of Nick Hornby, "Steve McQueen" brings you effortlessly and enjoyably into the world of an "underachieving" 30ish Brit, this one trying to juggle a girlfriend's ultimatum to "get a life" and his dreams of rock stardom. Wener does a great job of creating believable, complex characters and a nicely quirky setting in downscale London. I was all ready to pack my bags for London and its sensitive, commitmentphilic...
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Rated 4 starsI loved this book! Very Funny!
GOOD NIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN by Louise Wener January 25, 2005 Danny (Steve) McQueen is dreaming of becoming a big music super star in GOOD NIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN, the debut novel by Louise Wener. Danny (as he prefers to be called) is almost 30 and is still working part time at the local video store while he tries to make a go at it in the world of music. His bandmates Vince and Matty are also dreaming of that day when the three...
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