I LOVE
A Spot of Bother. I have read it three times and typically (listening to a repeat aside) I do not do this. There are several books I would not mind, might actually really enjoy re-reading, but people keep writing new books and
I just can't keep up! Okay back to
this book.
A Spot of Bother is funny. Like freakin' hilarious.The author, Mark Haddon, wrote the much more known (does that make sense?)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. It's pretty great as well so I threw out a cover picture (judge a book by a cover and I swear at least 75% of the time you will have judged correctly, and aren't these covers sweet?). Okay, so the main dude in
Spot is late middle-aged with a cheating wife, a daughter with a less-than-fantastic fiance, a gay son, and a skin 'spot'. Basically his life is heading into the crapper and he starts to lose it just a little. Then, just a lot.
Loved The Curious Incident- might have to give Spot a go!
ReplyDeleteAre you reading Pillars of the Earth again? You've read World Without End, too, right?
ReplyDeleteI did read WWE (haha wwe) and loved it. It's sick I know but I find anything that mentions the plague (or the Holocaust)highly fascinating. About to finish Pillars on CD (not erasing this one from the ipod) and all set to listen to WWE next. Check out the library that where I got these. Great reader.
ReplyDeleteOh! And yes! You SHOULD read Spot!
ReplyDeleteI loved A Spot of Bother too. Mark Haddon is a genius at pathos.
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