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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
If I was to rank every single book I have ever read from best to worst, this book would probably be almost slap-bang in the middle. It's neither particularly brilliant nor awful, it's just alright. Perhaps it suffers from the translation from Swedish but I found it to be written in a rather mechanical 'blunt' fashion, this had its own particular charm in the way that simple cartoon narration might do. The story itself reminded me quite a lot of Forrest Gump with the protagonist unwittingly involved in many historical events. However, the 'main' story is rather ridiculous and was seemingly written 'off the cuff' with little planning. At times this results in some abstract humour, at others it meant I couldn't care less what was actually going on. The ending does tie the book up neatly though. So overall, I probably won't read it again but it's probably worth reading if you have nothing else available.