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A review by tysuckz
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
2.75
I would like to preface it by saying 2.75 does seem low but I'll explain why. I loved the story of Allan (et al) disappearing and running away and doing all the crazy things they did. However, I didn't know there would be historical chapters and honestly they bored me SO bad.
I mean. They would've been fine if they weren't so long, but the majority of the book WAS the history of Allan Karlsson which . Makes sense cause he is 100 years old and you'd imagine touching base on his history, but ~195 pages were about his life. Basically start to finish. Which is almost 50% of a book about him escaping.
I guess the title is mildly misleading in that it seems its mostly about him escaping but realistically it's just about Him. Just about Allan Karlsson. And to be honest I loved him as a character and thought he was very interesting and fun. But history isn't my thing. War also isn't my thing. I do feel like the history of him didn't really play any key roles in his escaping but irrespective of that the tale of escaping was fun.
Definitely someone's cup of tea, but not mine! It took a month to read since I just didn't have any motivation to pick it up except just to finish it. And even that wasn't enough motivation.
To be fair to it, the historical parts were really fun and I enjoyed them as a separate tale of Allan, but I didn't enjoy them wedged in with everything else. If that makes sense?
I mean. They would've been fine if they weren't so long, but the majority of the book WAS the history of Allan Karlsson which . Makes sense cause he is 100 years old and you'd imagine touching base on his history, but ~195 pages were about his life. Basically start to finish. Which is almost 50% of a book about him escaping.
I guess the title is mildly misleading in that it seems its mostly about him escaping but realistically it's just about Him. Just about Allan Karlsson. And to be honest I loved him as a character and thought he was very interesting and fun. But history isn't my thing. War also isn't my thing. I do feel like the history of him didn't really play any key roles in his escaping but irrespective of that the tale of escaping was fun.
Definitely someone's cup of tea, but not mine! It took a month to read since I just didn't have any motivation to pick it up except just to finish it. And even that wasn't enough motivation.
To be fair to it, the historical parts were really fun and I enjoyed them as a separate tale of Allan, but I didn't enjoy them wedged in with everything else. If that makes sense?