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Discuss The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and
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This is a laugh out loud funny book in spots and yet smart and full of historical characters, which I like.
I can't wait to be a hundred now, and my respect for the elderly has increased a hundredfold - if they remember half of the things they have done in life, I should probably sit down and listen to them talk. Even if they don't, they might tell a good story anyway.
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In some respects, you could think that far too much happens to the main character so as to make it totally implausible, but that would be to miss the point - that this is just a fun book to read. I also believe that the character has been so developed that you find yourself believing that absolutely anything could happen to him and you just want to find out what happens next.
Even though I haven't finished this book yet, I have already been recommending it to people. Just a jolly good read.
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This could be summed up by saying that it was a joy to read and that there is a surprise at every turn. It takes you on a journey you would never have imagined from the title and the opening few pages, where a very old man goes on the run from his 100th birthday party by climbing out of the window of the nursing home, still wearing his pee-slippers ... I laughed all the way through. I'm now going to read it again. Enjoy.
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The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, trans by Rod Bradbury.
I loved this quirky, crazy, funny, mad book - kind of a Forrest Gump meets Just William - as it zips through the whole of the 20th century, with unlikely appearances by many of the major world figures, in a series of mad cap adventures.
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