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I'm giving this book a 1-1/2 stars in my Reading Log. This is my 2nd Haddon book; I think I enjoyed the Curious Dog Incident better, though that was a number of years ago, before I was rating my reads. I think part of the problem I had with his book was due to it being an audiobook. The book was basically about a week's vacation that two UK families take and each chapter/section switched narrators/perspectives, making it hard to keep track & follow everything & everyone. Partly due also to the f
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Amazing how much goes on in an extended family in a week's time, this novel is much different than The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, yet eerily much the same.
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An audio pick--not bad, but then anything with parents and kids my age is probably going to hold my attention. The style is interesting--some randomness, but fun. NOTE: one discussion of a very graphic sex book and some brief graphic sex and a lot of "f" this. Very anti-Christian and anti-Church, but that's kept to one part of the story line and did not spoil the book for me at all. I enjoyed another title of his, "Spot of Bother"
FYI--if you don't read a lot of British stuff sick=vomit, ill=sic ...more
FYI--if you don't read a lot of British stuff sick=vomit, ill=sic ...more
May 28, 2012
Megan
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Seulky
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Janna
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Tanya
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