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The Diary of a Nobody
by Weedon Grossmith, George Grossmith
“Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.”
What an odd little book!
I've never had the feeling of a book overstaying its welcome before but this one just might have done it for me - and it's only 200 pages at that! The humor and commentary are very much enjoyable in the first one hundred pages but somehow both become a little insufferable by the end. Maybe it's because I found Lupin's character to be deeply uninteresting, and even annoying, most times. I just couldn't really get into it in the last fifty or so pages, despite initially enjoying the story and all the witty observations about English suburbia and its very close-minded inhabitants. I came away wishing the introduction was longer and the story shorter - very odd, indeed!
In any case, I'm excited to add the word 'Pooter' and its other forms, 'Pootering' for instance, to my vocabulary from now on :D.
What an odd little book!
I've never had the feeling of a book overstaying its welcome before but this one just might have done it for me - and it's only 200 pages at that! The humor and commentary are very much enjoyable in the first one hundred pages but somehow both become a little insufferable by the end. Maybe it's because I found Lupin's character to be deeply uninteresting, and even annoying, most times. I just couldn't really get into it in the last fifty or so pages, despite initially enjoying the story and all the witty observations about English suburbia and its very close-minded inhabitants. I came away wishing the introduction was longer and the story shorter - very odd, indeed!
In any case, I'm excited to add the word 'Pooter' and its other forms, 'Pootering' for instance, to my vocabulary from now on :D.