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...Pulitzer Prize for referencing goes to Bret Easton Ellis, whose famously lazy prose has made him the Danny Bonaduce of letters. In the hands of British writer Nick Hornby, though, the affectation is used to excellent effect. Hornby, 38, is worshipped in Britain for his 1992 book, Fever Pitch, a humorous memoir about his life as a soccer fan. In this first novel, High Fidelity (Riverhead Books; $21.95; 323 pages), he demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing...
...taken only six months for the average American baseball fan to exchange his or her guarded loyalty for lemming-hood. The protests and low attendance figures that greeted players and owners at the beginning of this strike-shortened season have been replaced by the annual rite of pennant fever...
...avid jogger, Quinn was stretching in his backyard when he spotted a little black dot on his leg. Once he realized that it was a tick, he quickly removed it with a pair of tweezers. But not quickly enough. Four days later, Quinn fell violently ill. "I had a fever of 102 degrees, and it felt like a hammer was banging in my head," he recalls. "I couldn't keep my head up, but I couldn't lie down either because my back was killing...
...newly discovered tick-borne disease that has stricken at least 90 people in New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin and a few other states since 1990, resulting in four deaths. The infection is caused by the Ehrlichia bacterium, a distant cousin of the microbe responsible for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Fortunately, Quinn had gone to specialists who recognized the infection and cured him with the antibiotic doxycycline. "I had no idea it could be fatal," he says. "Looking back, I'm glad I didn't know the severity...
Haise (played by Bill Paxton) and Swigert (Kevin Bacon), are also convincingly portrayed. Paxton may have had the most difficult assignment of the cast, as his character, Haise, spent most of the mission suffering from a severe fever...