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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
DID NOT FINISH
So I DNF'd the hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared. Although it's got an interesting title, it was recommended by a friend who said that she didn't finish it and she didn't enjoy it. But I thought I'll give it a go, but I didn't get on with it really. I only read about 40 pages.
It just was really weird. I think it was supposed to be funny, but I just didn't really get the humour. Like it just talked a lot about how the old man was an old man and that's why he did things, and like made comments about how he was old so he dripped wee on his slippers when he went to the toilet. Which honestly made me feel a little bit sick thinking about old wee man slippers. Like, why did the old man go out the window for a birthday?
Like, I guess that's the point of the story. I didn't get that to can get to that point. But it's his birthday party. Would've thought you'd want to at least attend. And then it has like a random backstory like of him as a child hundred years ago which obviously was like the well I think it was the beginning of the nineteen twenties.
The second world war and also like the Russia and Sir Nicholas II, the tsar and the Bolsheviks. And then randomly started talking about Karl Marx. But instead of calling him Karl Marx or like the theory Marxism it just kept referring to him as uncle Karl and I just thought it was really weird. And then randomly he decided to blow things up in a quarry and blew someone's head off which I think was supposed to be funny because then he spoke to the head and the head didn't respond but I didn't really get that. And then it had a random bit about forced sterilization of Negroes and Jews and he was forcibly sterilized but he didn't mind.
And I just thought what has this got to do with it? So yeah. I didn't finish because I didn't think it was funny. I thought it was a bit weird and I didn't really care. Like the old man was supposed to go out and steal, I think, a suitcase of money and then the guy tracks him down.
But I just didn't feel anything for the old man. I just thought he came across a bit stupid. So yeah. I don't recommend it and I don't really know how it's apparently a international best selling sensation. Maybe perhaps if you're Swedish or Russian maybe you'd sort of understand the old man a bit more Or maybe if you have, like, the right sort of sense of humour and you're interested in, like, Marxism.
I don't know. Wasn't my cup of tea. Not gonna finish it. Not gonna waste my time.
It just was really weird. I think it was supposed to be funny, but I just didn't really get the humour. Like it just talked a lot about how the old man was an old man and that's why he did things, and like made comments about how he was old so he dripped wee on his slippers when he went to the toilet. Which honestly made me feel a little bit sick thinking about old wee man slippers. Like, why did the old man go out the window for a birthday?
Like, I guess that's the point of the story. I didn't get that to can get to that point. But it's his birthday party. Would've thought you'd want to at least attend. And then it has like a random backstory like of him as a child hundred years ago which obviously was like the well I think it was the beginning of the nineteen twenties.
The second world war and also like the Russia and Sir Nicholas II, the tsar and the Bolsheviks. And then randomly started talking about Karl Marx. But instead of calling him Karl Marx or like the theory Marxism it just kept referring to him as uncle Karl and I just thought it was really weird. And then randomly he decided to blow things up in a quarry and blew someone's head off which I think was supposed to be funny because then he spoke to the head and the head didn't respond but I didn't really get that. And then it had a random bit about forced sterilization of Negroes and Jews and he was forcibly sterilized but he didn't mind.
And I just thought what has this got to do with it? So yeah. I didn't finish because I didn't think it was funny. I thought it was a bit weird and I didn't really care. Like the old man was supposed to go out and steal, I think, a suitcase of money and then the guy tracks him down.
But I just didn't feel anything for the old man. I just thought he came across a bit stupid. So yeah. I don't recommend it and I don't really know how it's apparently a international best selling sensation. Maybe perhaps if you're Swedish or Russian maybe you'd sort of understand the old man a bit more Or maybe if you have, like, the right sort of sense of humour and you're interested in, like, Marxism.
I don't know. Wasn't my cup of tea. Not gonna finish it. Not gonna waste my time.