Wednesday 25 February 2009

Up A Tree In The Park At Night With A Hedgehog


So this is my review for it, and even as I type I'm still undecided on what i actually think about the book

While I was reading it I kept feeling like a needy chick asking questions...What is the point? Where is this all going? Can this guy's friends and family really be this odd?

This isn't really a story, and it doesn't really have a plot it is more a loosely connected series of 'funny' moments. OK I feel bad putting funny in inverted commas there are some humorous moments mainly involving physical harm happening to people

This book would be good for readers of things like Nuts magazine I would imagine as it is written in short punchy segments and features physical harm and sexual relations with virginal Koreans

I just didn't really get the point of it all, maybe the point is above to appeal to Nuts readers. Jasper Fforde has described it as page turningly odd and it is a page turner and it is certainly odd but I'm not sure that Mr Fforde is being entirely complimentary

I don't regret reading this book - and I very well might read another P. Robert Smith should a free copy come my way and I have a train journey to make and I'm not reading another book

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