Duncan is a character I can love to hate. A pretentious know-it-all devotee to Crowe, he spends his life trying to dissect every element of Tucker's life. He goes as far as traveling to America to visit all the places significant to the production of Juliet, marveling at a urinal which he believes played a significant role in the abrupt end of Crowe's career. When he isn't examining his bootleg albums, he's analyzing theories on the Internet about Crowe's personal life. This isn't wrong in and of itself, necessarily, it's more that his opinions and interpretations are, to him, fact, as he is the expert and nobody would know better than him.
All in all, it's a humorous, and sometimes touching story about people trying to figure out how their own lives have passed them by without having done anything of true significance, what they should or could have done differently to avoid it, and how to make up for time lost. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, it reads quickly, it revolves around music, and the characters are all flawed, but possess redeeming qualities. I'll give it a 4 out of 5 and put more of Hornby's books on my list of "To read."
