A Spot of Bother (Vintage) by Mark Haddon
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Book Reviews of A Spot of Bother (Vintage)
Book Review: Adorable
Summary: 4 Stars
Although there was no way Haddon was going to match the impact of "The Curious Incident," he has produced a genuinely entertaining meditation on family life, growing old, and loving whoever you want to love. Curiously sweet, even when in the throes of achingly recognizable, well-drawn heartache, and laugh-out-loud funny even while dwelling on the subjects of death, distant children and romantic disaster.
If you're a fan of the deadpan, matter-of-fact kind of dry British humor, you'll love this book. And, perhaps to your surprise, you'll even end up loving all the foolish, fussy, and dysfunctional people in it.
Book Review: Very Good
Summary: 4 Stars
Haddon is a really good modern writer. Very funny throughout and also very English. Some of the colloquialisms are beyond me but that's ok. "A Spot of Bother" is a lot of fun but I'd say it could use a little more variation in dynamics. It seems that every character is in crisis all the time. It made it a bit tense for me at times, but I still definitely recommend it. I mean, they're going through turmoil through Haddon's quirky, funny, eyes, but even so it wore on me. Sometimes you need spot of peace, resting in a pleasant time in a character's life, something that glows and gives you a rest before the next worry..Book Review: A spot of bother by Mark Haddon
Summary: 4 Stars
I was a little hesitant with the idea of reading the rest of the book after reading the first few pages, because I found the start of the book a little depressing what with 61 year old George finding a lesion on his hip and thinking it was cancer but curiousity won out and Haddon's writing won me over. Haddon has a comic sense that allows us to laugh at certain things while at the same time allowing us to look into the complexities of the relationships in the George's family that indirect communication only makes more complex. A book that should not be put aside until read from cover to cover.Book Review: Extremely well written and funny
Summary: 4 Stars
When I was asked what this book is about, all I could say was it's about a dysfunctional British family. The daughter is getting married, the father is having a breakdown. So the plot sounds--is--very pedestrian, and there's not much that happens to change that assessment. The interest is entirely in the telling. Haddon has a very dry, deadpan sense of humor, including a postmodern sense of the absurd, which I found consistently entertaining. I don't consider it life-changing, nor do I expect to remember it for years, but it was a great way to spend a few days.Book Review: Knockout
Summary: 4 Stars
Haddon's second novel is everybit as good as the first and I simply can't uderstand some of the reviewers slagging him off. What do they want? Don't they realise the time and effort and thought that goes into writing a novel? Don't they realise that the author delibrately does not want to deliver to the reader a like for like version and wants to move on. The dysfunctional family characterised in Haddons book are masterful I was particularly taken with George. Great stuff, a good rioutous read.