The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson 3.9 stars

[Karin]

Allen Karlsson is back! His accidental further adventures begin on his 101st birthday when a balloon he and his pal Julian are on for his birthday celebration is inadvertently blown out to see. In a another series of funny, improbable events and circumstances he is once again involved with nuclear materials, as well as world leaders, a couple of neo-Nazi terrorists and various and sundry other people as he travels to Asia, North America, Europe and Africa from he same place we left him at the end of the first book.

While this wasn't quite as good as the first for me at times, at others I was chuckling out loud, and overall it deserves the four stars. While it is NOT the same as the first book, it is still Allen Karlsson being Allen Karlsson, and the other characters are all well done, even the ones based on real people (but used completely fictionally in this tale).

[Joanne]

I have not read the 1st one yet, but I am planning to take it on vacation with me in a few weeks!

[Karin]

Joanne wrote: "I have not read the 1st one yet, but I am planning to take it on vacation with me in a few weeks!"

I hope you enjoy it--humour is rather subjective :)