If you like the silliness and wordplay of Jeeves & Wooster or even A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and also enjoy the James Bond/spy with gadgets genre, you'll probably like The Gun Seller. Another airplane book, but fun. Hugh Laurie continues to impress me; accomplished pianist, fine writer, dammned funny...
It's difficult to classify this book. It was part spy-novel, part P.G. Wodehouse-esque humor, and part anti-weapon propaganda. Most of it was enjoyable to read. And the funny bits were VERY funny.The plot became a touch too obscure, and the characters a touch too one-dimensional to be really good. B...
yes, hugh laurie wrote book. yes, THAT hugh laurie. i thought this book has promising start. i looove the main character. he made me laugh. but from the middle to end, i somehow lost the grip to the story.
i realized after finishing my review of the hippopotamus by stephen fry, that i'd read a novel by his best friend, and sometime partner-in-crime, hugh laurie. when i read this book i was impressed that laurie was not only a good actor, but a good writer too. thoroughly enjoyable little book.
Hugh Laurie is a funny guy. Sadly, I read and gave away the novel before I discovered House. Well, these things happen and a girl can't hold on to every single book she picks up, try though she might.
I was trying to be pithy when I said to Jill that the difference between English and American comedians is that the English ones write their own material, for books by comedians are becoming quite common on both sides of the Atlantic. There is a difference, however, and it is in the "type" of books ...
I gave this one the old college try, and had I read the dead-paper version, I might have finished and had a better opinion. The audio book dragged on and on. . . though funny sometimes, it was mostly dated, mostly boring.
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