A review by jrmarr
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

3.0

I don't know how to feel about this book. I struggled with it at first and found it to be a bit tedious - how many laughs can there really be in the one 'joke'? It did pick up though. I guess the thing I got the most out of was the mirror it put up to our own 21st century, media-obsessed culture. It really appeared quite ludicrous through the eyes of someone who had been asleep for 65 years. But as other readers have written, the idea of trying to make Hitler a somewhat sympathetic character is an uncomfortable one, and so I cannot say enjoyed it. But I guess that is one of the hallmarks of satire...