A review by mx_malaprop
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov

3.0

Some parts of The Twelve Chairs were a bit dull and slow-going, but other bits and scenes had me giggling, laughing, or in one case (Chapter 12: "A Passionate Woman is a Poet's Dream") outright guffawing. I'm sure that there were jokes that got lost in translation and cultural jokes that went over my head, but it seems that the book could have stood to be a little shorter in order for there to be a higher concentration of laughs. Perhaps there should have been only six chairs. :-P