Talk:High Fidelity (novel)

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We start off with discussing the book, as we should, but the article is disambiguated as (movie). How do we resolve this? -- Zoe

If there's no other work titled High Fidelity, I'd remove the disambiguation. --KQ

Yeah, the capital F disambiguates it from High fidelity. I'll move it. -- Zoe

Yikes. Aren't other sites available for this stuff? Is every movie going to have a page on Wikipedia?

(or every book, for that matter?)

Probably not. But High Fidelity is important enough that no-one's going to delete an article about it if it makes a reasonable amount of sense. The frontiers of "notability" are way more obscure than this, but there are a lot of books that no-one has yet seen fit to write about. --rbrwr^± 09:52, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I loved the movie (never read the book). Having said that: What makes it "important"? I thought the script was insightful and the acting was top-notch -- but "important"? It hasn't really influenced any larger trends in scriptwriting, cinematography, etc. It certainly had no impact on society. I've never read those sort of claims about the book, either. So define "important."

A worldwide best-selling book and an extremely popular film? I'd call that important. Besides, there's way more obscure stuff on here than this. And it's my favourite film ever made, and my favourite book ever written, so a massive Woo-Yay for this article.

The book/film has just recently been adapted into a musical of the same name. The production is in Boston. It's either opened right now or just about to open, since I saw a full-page advertisement for it in the Metro and I keep hearing about it on the radio. Disambiguation time! :)

The film has a huge cult following, which in itself makes it important. As for the musical mentioned above by an anonymous editor, refer to High Fidelity. SFTVLGUY2 15:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Film

Methinks the film needs its own page, simply because we have different styles of doing things on Wikipedia, and most other books-into-films have seperate articles for each. 75.34.1.4 18:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree - it's confusing. --DearPrudence 03:51, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree as well. --RattleandHum

I agree, as well... --slickshoes3234

And so do I. The film had its own page that inexplicably was redirected here; it should have remained as is. I have created a separate article for the Broadway musical version and I feel the movie should have one as well. SFTVLGUY2 15:45, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elvis Costello song of the same name

Does anyone know if the title of the novel comes from the Elvis Costello song with the same name (this song, High Fidelity, was on the 1980 attractions alblum Get Happy!)? When I glanced at an American copy of the book, the dust jacket mentioned Elvis Costello (It said the protagonist obsessed over the question of what was his favorite Elvis Costello song). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 205.188.116.12 (talk • contribs) .