Don't Point that Thing at Me
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781585675623 (1585675628)
ASIN: 1585675628
Publish date: August 31st 2004
Publisher: Overlook TP
Pages no: 198
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir
Series: Mortdecai -3 omnibus (#1)
I saw this in a real bookshop and it was one of the recommended reads from The Management. "Bertie Wooster meets ".I was intrigued, but not enough to pay the full paper price, so a Kindle purchase it was. I wish I hadn't bothered. The story is OK (art thief gets caught up in all sorts of trouble) bu...
”Destroying the painting was out of the question: my soul is all stained and shagged with sin like a cigarette smoker’s moustache but I am quite incapable of destroying works of art. Steal them, yes, cheerfully, it is a mark of respect and love, but destroy them, never. Why even the Woosters had a c...
~~Moved from GR~~ Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli It's almost cheering to find a book that contains more black humour and cynicism than I can handle.Imagine Bertie Wooster's evil twin from a parallel universe. He would be bloated with self-indulgence and degeneracy, a misanthro...
This is Jeeves & Wooster with a James Bond twist. Not only was Kyril Bonfiglioli a fan of PG Wodehouse, he flat out references Wodehouse through out Don't Point That Thing At Me. It's a level of sycophancy that I wasn't 100% comfortable with. But I guess if you're going to ape a writer's style, why ...
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