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Ladataan... Harmin paikka (2006)Tekijä: Mark Haddon
  
» 13 lisää Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.   David.llib.cat | Dec 23, 2023 |  It's the eve of Katie and Ray's wedding. She...doesnt know what she wants (is it just Ray's house, moneyt and fact he's a good father to her young son?) Ray's possibly the only likeable character- tho his determination to hold onto Katie means he starts to lose that accolade... Meanwhile Katie's father, George, is sliding into some kind of crisis- convinced his eczema is cancer...and made much worse when he discovers his wife is having an affair with his friend... Meanwhile Katie's brother is pining after his gay lover.... When you reach page 420 and are seriously considering ditching it rather than wade through 80 further pages...a bit of a turkey. (  ) starbox | Apr 18, 2022 |  ) AnnKlefstad | Feb 4, 2022 |  ) Triduana | Jan 25, 2022 | Here's my full review: http://www.sholee.net/2018/05/mpov-spot-of-bother.html (  ) Sholee | Sep 9, 2021 |
 “A Spot of Bother” isn’t nearly as audacious, and in other hands and other media, its plot elements wouldn’t amount to much, maybe a weepy nighttime soap or a lesser Steve Martin comedy. But Haddon is too gifted and too ambitious to write a hacky second novel. In fact, he’s so wondrously articulate, so rigorous in thinking through his characters’ mind-sets, that “A Spot of Bother” serves as a fine example of why novels exist. Really, does any other art form do nuance so well, or the telling detail or the internal monologue?  Just as he flawlessly mastered the voice of a boy with Asperger's in The Curious Incident, here Haddon has filled 390 pages with sharp and witty observations about family and daily life. This a superb novel, and I was shocked when it didn't made the Man Booker longlist. There may be a perfectly obvious, simple reason for its omission. After reading it though, I can't think of an explanation that's good enough.  And that's what's so surprising about A Spot of Bother: how unsurprising it is. It's never less than pleasurable to read and there are good jokes and funny situations; it's just that it never tries to be much more than good jokes or funny situations. It's not that this is a bad book - it isn't. It's amusing and brisk and charming. But readers could be forgiven for wanting - and expecting - more. PalkinnotDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood or of manly bonhomie. ??The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely.? Some things in life can??t be ignored, however: his tempestuous daughter Katie??s deeply inappropriate boyfriend Ray, for instance, or the sudden appearance of a red circular rash on his hip. At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden and enjoying the freedom to be alone when he wants. But then he runs into a spot of bother. That red circular rash on his hip: George convinces himself it??s skin cancer. And the deeply inappropriate Ray? Katie announces he will become her second husband. The planning for these frowned-upon nuptials proves a great inconvenience to George??s wife, Jean, who is carrying on a late-life affair with her husband??s ex-colleague. The Halls do not approve of Ray, for vague reasons summed up by their son Jamie??s observation that Ray has ??strangler??s hands.? Jamie himself has his own problems ?? his tidy and pleasant life comes apart when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to Katie??s wedding. And Katie, a woman whose ferocious temper once led to the maiming of a carjacker, can??t decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob. Unnoticed in the uproar, George quietly begins to go mad. The way these damaged people fall apart ?? and come together ?? as a family is the true subject of Haddon??s hilarious and disturbing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon??s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Once again, Haddon proves a master of a story at once hilarious, poignant, dark, and profoundly human. Here the madness ?? literally ?? of family life proves rich comic fodder for Haddon??s Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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