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Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party
by Alexander McCall Smith
You know this scene: a person in a foreign country tries to make himself understood by TALKING LOUDLY and SLOWLY at a poor native, who is prevented by manners or employment from leaving the scene.
Reading this felt like being on the receiving end of such a conversation. I did not get this book at all. The point of the plot. The characters' names. Whether the O'Leary's cartoonishly cliché misfortunes were meant to be funny. How it got past an editor.
Going to read other people's reviews to find out what I missed, because I can't for the life of me think of anything positive about this. Maybe if you like slapstick were very overweight people eat stuff and get stuck in things, this is your kind of book? I'm truly mystified.
Reading this felt like being on the receiving end of such a conversation. I did not get this book at all. The point of the plot. The characters' names. Whether the O'Leary's cartoonishly cliché misfortunes were meant to be funny. How it got past an editor.
Going to read other people's reviews to find out what I missed, because I can't for the life of me think of anything positive about this. Maybe if you like slapstick were very overweight people eat stuff and get stuck in things, this is your kind of book? I'm truly mystified.