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"Humorous and original. This is one of those crossover books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time."
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"The story is quirky and despite obvious plot similarities to "Hamlet," it is highly original."
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"The story is quirky and despite obvious plot similarities to "Hamlet," it is highly original."
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full of poignant insights and literary in jokes, plus the author does a nice line in grim hilarity
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A pleasant surprise,
By NB (Middlesbrough, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Dead Fathers Club (Paperback)
I loved his first book and tried to read this a while ago, and couldn't get into it.
Spurred on by another recommendation, I got this back out of the library and I'm glad I did. Set in unglamourous Newark, this tips a wink to the story of Hamlet (Phillip's dad has died and is appearing as a ghost, and says that uncle alan, who is after Phillip's mum and their pub, killed him, and Phillip MUST seek revenge), which is clever and interesting, but what really made me love this was Phillip and his view of the world. When you become an adult, I think you forget how simple and strange the world seems to a child, and his observations of sex, aerobics and relationships had me laughing out loud. Haig plays about with language, marking pages with one word occasionally, and getting colloquial accents just right, and his writing feels very special and I implore you to read this.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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good but not quite so good,
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This review is from: The Dead Fathers Club (Hardcover)
as "the last family in England".....definitely worth reading however and very easily digested with matt haig's style of short chapters.....I hope he continues the series of updated shakespearian dramas and the next one will be hopefully worth 5 stars again
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Refreshing and intelligent,
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This review is from: The Dead Fathers Club (Paperback)
Both the author and the plot were completely new to me as I must be one of the 1% of the population who hasn't read or seen Hamlet.
This isn't a drawback though, it was just a fresh new story for me, which I thoroughly enjoyed picking up. Eleven year old Philip Noble has recently been bereaved. His dad Brian has died in a car accident...but when he appears to Philip he tells him he was murdered and needs Philips help to avenge his death before it's too late and he's doomed to experience 'the terrors' forever. "If the Living don't take Revenge in the No Time the ghosts stay ghosts forever". I really enjoyed the 'normality' of the situation; Philip's tropical fish, and that he finds parallels between the Roman History he's learning at school and his own life. Even in death, the ghosts of dads in Newark meet near the pub 'The Castle and Falcon', where Brian was landlord (and Philip lives) because it's the oldest pub in town and most of them went there in life. As we read further, the story takes a more sombre turn and questions the fragility of the mind when bereaved. Intelligently written it is both humourous and poignant and the author illustrates the story brilliantly with cleverly chosen words.
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