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Praise for ‘Q’:
“…the payoff is big. A word to the tear prone: don’t attempt to read the ending in public.” Susannah Meadows, The New York Times
“Mandery is a worthy son of Vonnegut, Barthelme, and Barth.” Joseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic
‘A poignant, often hilarious, consideration of our universal curse of second guessing… It will take a reader with a very hard-heart not to be moved by "Q”.’ San Francisco Book Review
‘This novel reads like an early Woody Allen, when he was young and still funny…it’s a quirky tale, playing with philosophical notions and ‘what-if’ scenarios but at its heart it’s an epic romance, as the tear-jerking finale reveals’ Marie Claire Magazine
‘It’s The Time Traveller’s Wife with matzo ball soup jokes… A readable and poignant exploration of the roads not taken’ Financial Times
‘Great fun’ Metro
‘Evan Mandery writes with elegance and humour’ Times Literary Supplement
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Praise for 'Q': "!the payoff is big. A word to the tear prone: don't attempt to read the ending in public." Susannah Meadows, The New York Times "Mandery is a worthy son of Vonnegut, Barthelme, and Barth." Joseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic 'A poignant, often hilarious, consideration of our universal curse of second guessing! It will take a reader with a very hard-heart not to be moved by "Q".' San Francisco Book Review 'This novel reads like an early Woody Allen, when he was young and still funny!it's a quirky tale, playing with philosophical notions and 'what-if' scenarios but at its heart it's an epic romance, as the tear-jerking finale reveals' Marie Claire Magazine 'It's The Time Traveller's Wife with matzo ball soup jokes! A readable and poignant exploration of the roads not taken' Financial Times 'Great fun' Metro 'Evan Mandery writes with elegance and humour' Times Literary Supplement
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I thought the idea of meeting your future self would be quite an interesting read. Unfortunately our unnamed hero isn't very heroic or interesting. Neither is Q. Yes, this tells the story of how they meet, and you are supposed to believe that she is the love of his life but by the time you get half way through the book you are still wondering when, if ever the spark will appear between them.
All that seems to happen is that he meets his future self at fancy restraunts and goes through the reasons why he needs to leave Q. There is a small story about their child being i'll etc but this isn't a very convincing story. I couldn't feel the love between our hero and Q and this made it really hard to care about the choices he makes. I found parts of this book would go off at random tangents, almost just to use up the extra pages. It's very slow and just not gripping enough for me.
All that seems to happen is that he meets his future self at fancy restraunts and goes through the reasons why he needs to leave Q. There is a small story about their child being i'll etc but this isn't a very convincing story. I couldn't feel the love between our hero and Q and this made it really hard to care about the choices he makes. I found parts of this book would go off at random tangents, almost just to use up the extra pages. It's very slow and just not gripping enough for me.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It's an enjoyable book: light, funny, interesting story. It's not a particularly profound or enlightening read, but engaging enough to keep you company by the poolside on holiday.
The basic story is that our protagonist gets warned by his future self not to marry Q, the love of his life. He is eventually persuaded, but is harassed by a succession of alternate versions of himself, who tell him that whatever the last version told him was a big mistake, and he must now do (fill in the blank).
The style of humour is fairly dry and pleasant, sort of reminds me of a toned down Douglas Adams mixed with Woody Allen. The recurring joke started to wear thin for me in a few places (his future selves' eating peculiarities, stinginess, rapid-fire reversal of advice just after he's committed himself to whatever action), but overall, an entertaining read.
The basic story is that our protagonist gets warned by his future self not to marry Q, the love of his life. He is eventually persuaded, but is harassed by a succession of alternate versions of himself, who tell him that whatever the last version told him was a big mistake, and he must now do (fill in the blank).
The style of humour is fairly dry and pleasant, sort of reminds me of a toned down Douglas Adams mixed with Woody Allen. The recurring joke started to wear thin for me in a few places (his future selves' eating peculiarities, stinginess, rapid-fire reversal of advice just after he's committed himself to whatever action), but overall, an entertaining read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review
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The theme of the book was alluring; having enjoyed 'The Time Traveler's Wife, something along a similar vein might be equally interesting. A love story. Readers may not be convinced about this by the end of the book. Time travel has arrived in the future, so the nameless subject's future self returns to visit himself at various key points in his life to persuade himself to take different paths in an effort to end up with a happier life, to put it simply.
A decent edit could have made this book much better. The author is intelligent but I am left wondering if he wrote the book for himself or for others to read. Not long after seven pages of a debate in the Oxford Union, the author writes: 'No one wants to read a debate in a novel.' Quite. Page-skip alert. You'll be reading about Freud and eels, I kid you not. I feel that it slips into the mode of trying to impress academia whilst throwing in contemporary morsels for Joe Public. The subject appears to have a rather weak and gullible character. Why should he believe everything his older self tells him? I feel that he deserves a dull dotage. The pacing of the book speeds up at the end, as if a red pen had suddenly been found. Still, there are flashes of superb writing amongst the digressions.
A decent edit could have made this book much better. The author is intelligent but I am left wondering if he wrote the book for himself or for others to read. Not long after seven pages of a debate in the Oxford Union, the author writes: 'No one wants to read a debate in a novel.' Quite. Page-skip alert. You'll be reading about Freud and eels, I kid you not. I feel that it slips into the mode of trying to impress academia whilst throwing in contemporary morsels for Joe Public. The subject appears to have a rather weak and gullible character. Why should he believe everything his older self tells him? I feel that he deserves a dull dotage. The pacing of the book speeds up at the end, as if a red pen had suddenly been found. Still, there are flashes of superb writing amongst the digressions.
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Having enjoyed Time Travellers Wife emensely I was hoping for more of the same. Read more
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