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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
To be perfectly honest, I didn't come in to this book expecting a lot, and that was exactly what I was presented with. I can't get in to a book of nothing but distasteful characters, but that was what this was and as much as I appreciated the taste of the Victorian era and it's somewhat endearing attitudes, I still didn't enjoy the book
Perhaps more enjoyable for the writers contemporaries, but not for me
Perhaps more enjoyable for the writers contemporaries, but not for me
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The Diary of A Nobody was written by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith and published as a book in 1892. The book is a diary, as is evident from the name and documents the daily life of an English clerk, Charles Pooter. His life is.... boring, but he is pretty happy with it, his wife, neighbours and job is his whole world, along with the everyday skirmishes with bunch of random people.
Why should you read the diary of an unimportant person? For no other reason than to grin and occasionally laugh at his ideas about his own personality, his sense of humour where he often describes how people laugh at his jokes and how they admire him and daily incidents where he tries to make sense of all the eccentric people around him.
The book is a diary, it’s a satire on everyday folks, don’t expect more from it and if you enjoy the dry deadpan English humour, this one is for you.
Why should you read the diary of an unimportant person? For no other reason than to grin and occasionally laugh at his ideas about his own personality, his sense of humour where he often describes how people laugh at his jokes and how they admire him and daily incidents where he tries to make sense of all the eccentric people around him.
The book is a diary, it’s a satire on everyday folks, don’t expect more from it and if you enjoy the dry deadpan English humour, this one is for you.
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
reflective
These sorts of 'every-man' diaries work best when the diarist is a charming character that one becomes attached to. The reader needs to develop enough affection for them that their ordinary triumphs and pitfalls feel as important to us as our own - and, in their own way, as important as the grand heroics and dangers in more adventurous stories. I've read books that got that right, but this frequently fell short of that requirement. By the end of the book I still didn't feel particularly attacked to Mr. Pooter. Part of the problem I think was the angle of the comedy. The diary-style books I've liked the best are the ones where the narrator is genuinely funny, and you laugh with them. I felt like most of the time Mr. Pooter himself was the butt of the joke, but since he's the audience's only connection with this little world, if we're meant to see him as silly it's hard not to see his whole life as silly.
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
funny
lighthearted
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Honestly this was a really fun light-hearted read of a fake diary of a Victorian man who has woes and triumphs like anyone. Diary entries about how he made two jokes at dinner and he made everyone laugh so hard he felt like he won at entertaining