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Mister Roberts (2008)

by Alexei Sayle(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0340961554 (ISBN13: 9780340961551)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Sceptre

review 1: This book is marketed as being hilarious and obviously that's what you would expect when the author is Alexei Sayle. There certainly are a lot of little one liners and clever little comedic and satirical references, however this book made me feel rather sad rather than having me rolling in the aisles. The storyline and the characters are a slightly depressing reflection of the modern life, even though the setting is basically what most people would consider to be the "almost within reach" dream.I thought it was cleverly put together, it is an interesting tale and a decent short book for a bit of light, if not light-hearted, reading. The style is a little like a children's book so it's definitely not challenging from that perspective.
review 2: Entertaining shor... moret novel set among expatriates in Spain who are disrupted by a terminator-like mechanoid from outer space. Nowhere near as stupid as that plot summary makes it sound! I particularly enjoyed a very long-delayed punchline which brackets the main narrative. The story's narrator (in a state of shock) decides he has to offload on someone and finally finds a random stranger who looks like he will understand. The story of Mister Roberts is then unfolded. Only in the last page of the novel do you realise who the person was who was having the story told to him. less

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