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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
I don't understand why this book is such a best seller... it was so boring...
I finished this book for book club. Had it not been for book club, I would *most definitely* have given up around a third of the way in and been happier for it.
It started cute. I was charmed and entertained for the first 50 pages or so. But then there was relentlessly no content to back up... anything...
I'm sorry, but there's no actual story (the following is spoilers, if it's possible to spoil a book with no story:) it's about a dude who lived through the entire 20th century and had dinner and vodka with everyone of importance -from multiple US presidents to Stalin to I don't remember or care - but refused to actually take an interest in politics or anything going on. He just runs around being lucky and nice and drinking vodka and building atomic bombs for everyone. But there's no damned story. It's like a really bad fan fiction of the 20th century, where the author just wants to make sure he pleases fans of the time period by making sure the protagonist interacts with everyone of any importance. But I say again: nothing happens.... so many pages of nothing....
I finished this book for book club. Had it not been for book club, I would *most definitely* have given up around a third of the way in and been happier for it.
It started cute. I was charmed and entertained for the first 50 pages or so. But then there was relentlessly no content to back up... anything...
I'm sorry, but there's no actual story (the following is spoilers, if it's possible to spoil a book with no story:) it's about a dude who lived through the entire 20th century and had dinner and vodka with everyone of importance -from multiple US presidents to Stalin to I don't remember or care - but refused to actually take an interest in politics or anything going on. He just runs around being lucky and nice and drinking vodka and building atomic bombs for everyone. But there's no damned story. It's like a really bad fan fiction of the 20th century, where the author just wants to make sure he pleases fans of the time period by making sure the protagonist interacts with everyone of any importance. But I say again: nothing happens.... so many pages of nothing....