An easy-riding, ball-busting comedy of bad manners, this is one of the most surprising and entertaining literary debuts of recent years. Pablo Baloo Miralles, a fat, useless and flatulent thirty-year-old, is the black sheep of his obscenely wealthy family. While he dedicates his days to online philosophy chatrooms and his nights to whatever pleasures he can find, his brother, 'The First,' is president of his booming family business. But, when 'The First' suddenly disappears, Pablo finds himself being sucked into a hair-raising, mind-bending adventure - an adventure in which he must use all of his well-honed survival instincts to come out alive.
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"Here we are in the gross world of 'lad-lit'...funny and original..." The Independent "A perfect salute to imperfection. This isn't a book, it's a month of Friday nights out." DBC Pierre "Frequently tasteless but quite delicious" Metro "Pablo Tusset reels you in from paragraph one...a rollicking chase tale." The Scotsman "Hilarious, raunchy and pungently aphoristic" The Times "A comic masterpiece" Ladsmag "Funny, inventive and irreverent" Daily Mail "A cult in the making..." The Herald"
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Pablo Tusset, born in Barcelona in 1965, abandoned a comfortable future as a literary critic to dedicate himself to writing. The Best Thing that can Happen to a Croissant is his first novel.
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The reference to Confederacy of Dunces half way through gives it away. This is a writer who is attempting to splice together all the good bits of novels written by authors more talented than he is.It's like a game of 'spot the rip off' most of the time. It's a good translation but then one has to ask how much of the style is down to the translator and how much the author. It is the kind of novel literary critics write because a) they know they can rely on colleagues for good reviews in a 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' kind of way and b) so much immersion in novels has led them to erroneously believe they can do it themselves. Well unfortunately film critics don't make good directors, restaurant critics don't make good chefs. It might impress a few lazy trend hounds but it won't be remembered by anyone five years from now. The main character has the same name as the author and the author looks like the lead character he describes. You could call that blowing on the dead embers of post-modernism or you could call it crass. The fact that the cover blurb has a commendation from DBC Pierre says it all - one chancer saluting another. "A cult in the making' says the Herald. They spelt cult wrong.
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Both the (anti) hero of this book, and the book itself, are a bit of a mess, but great fun. Our narator hero, Pablo, is not an instantly likeable character, and is on some kind of self-destructive escape from his privalged upbriging. However, his drunken, drugged-up lurches around his navite Barcelona are full of humour. His relationship with his family is full of sustained in-jokes, and some real insight into the like of a "black sheep".
The last third of the book suddenly lurches from Charles Bukowski to Dan Brown, as it were, from drunken stumbing to daring-do and the uncovering of consipiricy. Through this, however, Pablo retains his off-beat humour, and his main combat method is to charge down bad guys with his bulk. The ending is a bit unconvincing (but, hey, so are Dan Brown's).
Some of this must have been a chalenging translation from the Spannish, but the English prose is easy on the eye and brain.
So, overall, a very entertaining read.
The last third of the book suddenly lurches from Charles Bukowski to Dan Brown, as it were, from drunken stumbing to daring-do and the uncovering of consipiricy. Through this, however, Pablo retains his off-beat humour, and his main combat method is to charge down bad guys with his bulk. The ending is a bit unconvincing (but, hey, so are Dan Brown's).
Some of this must have been a chalenging translation from the Spannish, but the English prose is easy on the eye and brain.
So, overall, a very entertaining read.
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Please DO NOT read Amazon's synopsis - it really gives too much away. This is a truly hillarious book. I could not put it down. Strongly recommend it
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