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A review by sil_the_lobster
Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill
4.0
What a delightful read, or rather: listen. I have five or six of the Dr Siri audiobooks, and I have them in German. Usually, when a book's original language is English, I read the original, not the translation, but one of Germany's finest actors reads the Dr Siri novels - Jan Josef Liefers -, and what a treat it is to listen to him breathe life into the characters!
Enough's been said about the story so there's no need to repeat all that. Let me just say that this is another enjoyable story about the adventures of Dr Siri Paiboun, and again, it entwines touches of the otherworld with his witty pragmatism. And at the same time, the formidable nurse Dtui is being pulled in an adventure with very worldly villains... so it's one book with two mysteries. Two for the price of one :-)
I love how the Dr Siri series pulls me into a world I'd known nothing about, and how Cotterill manages to entwine tricky subjects (i.e. the Hmong discrimination) into the story - he teaches you and makes you think and still enjoy reading.
So if you're into sleuthing and into exploring "foreign" places (as opposed to the usual sleuth story settings), I highly recommend meeting Dr Siri. Careful, though, this one's the 5th novel in the series and although the stories themselves can be read as stand-alone it helps to read them in order, or the character development / the dynamics between the main characters might become confusing.
Enough's been said about the story so there's no need to repeat all that. Let me just say that this is another enjoyable story about the adventures of Dr Siri Paiboun, and again, it entwines touches of the otherworld with his witty pragmatism. And at the same time, the formidable nurse Dtui is being pulled in an adventure with very worldly villains... so it's one book with two mysteries. Two for the price of one :-)
I love how the Dr Siri series pulls me into a world I'd known nothing about, and how Cotterill manages to entwine tricky subjects (i.e. the Hmong discrimination) into the story - he teaches you and makes you think and still enjoy reading.
So if you're into sleuthing and into exploring "foreign" places (as opposed to the usual sleuth story settings), I highly recommend meeting Dr Siri. Careful, though, this one's the 5th novel in the series and although the stories themselves can be read as stand-alone it helps to read them in order, or the character development / the dynamics between the main characters might become confusing.