by Jonathan Coe
Bought in Avignon for 4 euros. I would have been happier if it was slightly less. It reminded me of The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window with it's windy plot. It made me laugh and it was really engaging but I didn't really like it.
The single-parent father is gay and doesn't know it. The single-parent son, 48, is gay and doesn't know it. A smug con artist of a writer makes a one page appearance and makes all this rubbish disappear. That's the miracle I was waiting for. If I've helped one person who thinks this book is good and...
Jonathan Coe did it again. A pretty decent effort of a novel spoiled by an abrupt, clumsy (and metafictional!) ending. Pity, because 'The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim' has its good moments and includes some brilliant dialogues and ideas. There's just too much here: too many characters, too many s...
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