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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
3.0
Humor writing tends to be thin and The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared is no different. That comment isn't negative, just know this isn't going to provide years of introspection like some of the classics.
Thin is fine as long as it’s funny. In that case it met the mark. The countless impossible circumstances Karlson finds himself in keeps the reader engaged. I chuckled out loud on many occasions while reading this book. The characters are absurd and believable at the same time. Including the elephant. An elephant! Alan lives a lifetime of “Burking it”. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it’s the opposite of “Couging it”. If you’re unfamiliar with “Couging it” you’ll need to look it up.
To appreciate this book one must look to the author, Jonas Jonasson and his career. He was a TV producer for many years and sold everything to move from Sweden to Italy.
His bio states: My father used to turn off the television right after the evening news. ”The world is all shit”, he would say. Now and again, he changed his phrasing into ”It makes you want to cry”.The world is aching for common sense. The democracies of the world are threatened to the very core by the values they were once founded on. Under attack from the outside as well as the inside. But, surely, the world is not as bad as I make it sound in my books. Sometimes it is worse. You wanted to cry, father. I prefer to laugh. The result is all the same. Laughter is a way to deal with it all. To make things even more bearable, my world of fiction always includes a happy ending.
I like his sentiment. While we live in a world contemptuously alternating between stupidity and meanness where common sense is as rare as centenarians, a lighthearted book like this is welcome. Pick it up. You’ll laugh, guaranteed!
Thin is fine as long as it’s funny. In that case it met the mark. The countless impossible circumstances Karlson finds himself in keeps the reader engaged. I chuckled out loud on many occasions while reading this book. The characters are absurd and believable at the same time. Including the elephant. An elephant! Alan lives a lifetime of “Burking it”. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it’s the opposite of “Couging it”. If you’re unfamiliar with “Couging it” you’ll need to look it up.
To appreciate this book one must look to the author, Jonas Jonasson and his career. He was a TV producer for many years and sold everything to move from Sweden to Italy.
His bio states: My father used to turn off the television right after the evening news. ”The world is all shit”, he would say. Now and again, he changed his phrasing into ”It makes you want to cry”.The world is aching for common sense. The democracies of the world are threatened to the very core by the values they were once founded on. Under attack from the outside as well as the inside. But, surely, the world is not as bad as I make it sound in my books. Sometimes it is worse. You wanted to cry, father. I prefer to laugh. The result is all the same. Laughter is a way to deal with it all. To make things even more bearable, my world of fiction always includes a happy ending.
I like his sentiment. While we live in a world contemptuously alternating between stupidity and meanness where common sense is as rare as centenarians, a lighthearted book like this is welcome. Pick it up. You’ll laugh, guaranteed!