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Too much violence - so only one star from me.
It is hard to read a book without a likable main character. Like many others, I expected to like a 100-year-old man with the spunk to climb out a window at the old folks home and actually get away with disappearing into society.
Unfortunately I soon discovered I could not like Allan Karlsson. It started when he stole a suitcase from a man who asked him to watch after it for a moment at the bus station. (Stupid request, it turns out.) And the story wen ...more
It is hard to read a book without a likable main character. Like many others, I expected to like a 100-year-old man with the spunk to climb out a window at the old folks home and actually get away with disappearing into society.
Unfortunately I soon discovered I could not like Allan Karlsson. It started when he stole a suitcase from a man who asked him to watch after it for a moment at the bus station. (Stupid request, it turns out.) And the story wen ...more
Such an imaginative, hilarious book!!
Jun 29, 2016
Sharon
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