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‘a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love’
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GOING GENTLY AND THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL AUTOBIOGRAPHY I DIDN'T GET WHERE I AM TODAY
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am a major David Nobbs fan. I loved Reginald Perrin. I laughed and cried at the wonderful Henry Pratt. But sadly I have to say this is not David Nobb's best work. Its not bad; it has some classic Nobbs parts to it but somewhere it just doesn't quite hit the spot. What's missing? Perhaps the main characters are a bit thin; perhaps the story is too predictable; perhaps its not sure whether it is a serious book trying to be funny or a funny book trying to be serious. Either way it doesn't quite get there.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's sad, funny, awkward, emotional, silly, strange, makes you think a bit.
"Going Gently" is certainly my favourite Nobbs book but as with that and the Pratt books the characterisations are very neatly sketched. The land is soundly middle England with all the hang ups that that entails.
I felt for and could relate to almost all the characters and I shed a tear at the end - see what it does for you.
"Going Gently" is certainly my favourite Nobbs book but as with that and the Pratt books the characterisations are very neatly sketched. The land is soundly middle England with all the hang ups that that entails.
I felt for and could relate to almost all the characters and I shed a tear at the end - see what it does for you.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a Reggie fan, I loved Nobbs' autobiography. He has an uncanny knack for tapping into the current zeitgeist. I think this may also be true of 'Going Gently' and 'Sex and Other Changes'. Both books illustrate how today's culture emphasises the feminine and values the feminine. For me this soon becomes tedious, like too much candyfloss. There is no drive in his writing, no excitement, no thrill, no real danger or threat of the unexpected, no achievement and no climax. It poodles along in a mildly amusing fashion. The plot is thorough but flat, like his characters. In Sex and Other Changes he gives himself the opportunity to explore the devastating issues of paternity fraud. Instead he treats the subject like a mild case of chicken pox, reminding me rather of the way his autobiography treated his own rape as a young adolescent and his own decision not to have children.
Whether he means to be or not there is no doubt in my mind that Nobbs is 'with it', as we used to say in Reggie's day, so the book is worth reading as an illustration of where our culture is 'at'. Whether you like what you see is a matter for you to decide. Can't say as I do, but that's hardly Nobbs' fault.
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I almost laughed
There is only one reason to read a book like this, and that is to have a good laugh. Unfortunately it isn't really funny. Read more
Published on 9 Oct 2009 by Phil O'Sofa
lame duck
The problem with this book for me was that the initial chapter/s were so flat and lamely written it made it practically impossible to find any motivation to get into it and... Read more
Published on 15 April 2009 by Kritz
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