The new hot book 'Juliet, Naked' by Nick Hornby-seductive power of pop music

'Juliet, Naked' describes about the seductive power of pop music in High Fidelity and how a hobby can become an obsession in Fever Pitch has been written by Nick Hornby. His new novel marries those two themes so perfectly that it deserves one of those smashup names. High Pitch, anyone?

Juliet, Naked is the actual title, and it's just right, like so much of this book.

Tucker Crowe is a musician whose record Juliet was hailed as the greatest breakup album ever. Then, in the middle of a tour, he abruptly canceled all remaining shows and disappeared from public life.

Crowe's decades-long silence creates a community of fans who endlessly analyze his music and speculate about his disappearance.

Duncan is one of those fans. His job is teaching in an English seaside town, but his avocation is running a Crowe Web site. When the novel opens, he's on a pilgrimage with his girlfriend, Annie, visiting sites such as the Minneapolis bathroom where Crowologists, as they call themselves, believe the artist experienced an epiphany.

Annie regarded Duncan's passion as manageable when they first met. Then the Internet came along.

"Until then, the nearest fellow fan had lived in Manchester, sixty or seventy miles away, and Tucker met up with him once or twice a year; now the nearest fans lived in Duncan's laptop, and there were hundreds of them, from all around the world, and Duncan spoke to them all the time."

Anyone who has ever stumbled into an obsessive fan site will recognize immediately that Nick Hornby has nailed the details, right down to the petty rivalries.

Duncan and Annie's arid relationship is due for a shake-up – she wants a baby but realizes "Duncan was nobody's idea of a father." The catalyst arrives in the form of a CD: acoustic sessions of Crowe's great work. It becomes known as Juliet, Naked.

Duncan posts a rhapsodic review. Annie shocks herself and her partner, first by disagreeing and then by writing a rebuttal that Duncan posts on his Web site.

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