High Fidelity(2)

Summary
Robert Fleming has now slept with Marie LaSalle, and started avoiding her like the plague immediately after. He meets with Laura and asks inappropriate questions about Ian, and if it's serious, and asks (and ends up begging) if they could someday get back together. He got depressed and went back to visit his parents for a day, which led to even more distress and him questioning why all of his past relationships failed. He decides to call up all of his old girlfriends and meet up with them and figure out what went wrong. Most of the girls just tell him how much of a jerk his was when breaking up with them. The others, who left him for other men, ended up either marrying them or having an even worse break-up.
Dick, who works with Rob, has started seeing a woman named Anna Moss. He's trying to train her to like the right music, because she's a Simple Minds fan, which is number one on their "Top Five Bands or Musicians Who Will Have to Be Shot Come the Musical Revolution".
Marie Lasalle visits the record store and gets Rob to come out for drinks with her and T-bone. They have a good time and Rob feels less awkward about their one night stand.

Reflection
Rob is very conflicted about remaining in a relationship with Laura. He wants her back, but at the same time is curious about pursuing something with Marie LaSalle. Rob wants Laura back for all the wrong reasons. He wants her to want him back, and to need him. The night they meet up to talk about things and he asks her if there's a chance they could ever get back together, he begs and repeats the question several times until she says that maybe one day they could possibly get back together, but she doesn't think that will happen. This shred of hope of her still wanting to be with him lifts his spirits just enough to work up the courage to sleep with Marie LaSalle, not to try and work things out with Laura.
Rob is dissatisfied with most things going on in his life right now. If i were to list the things he's unhappy with they would be relationships, his buisness, his general appearance, his friends, his apartment, basically his life in general isn't satisfying him. He makes no genuine effort to try and change any of these things really. The only thing that's really starting to look up a little for him is his relationship with Marie LaSalle, and that's only from effort on her part.
This book still depresses me just because of how helpless the main character is. The book itself is a pretty fast read and keeps me interested enough where it isn't painful to read more than a chapter at a time.