Merde Actually
Merde Actually
Stephen Clark
This is the sequel to A Year in Merde which is the funniest book I've ever read. This book is far from the previous book that I've reviewed. This book is for straight men and women who love to make fun of stereotypes. In the last book, the main character Paul West, who is English, gets a job and move to Paris. In this book, he is setting up a English cafe that will serve tea and English food(The French don't have much luck in finding out what's in Brown sauce). This series of books have no point except to make fun of the French, the English, hell all Europeans. I think Clark realized that in A Year in Merde, he had too much of a plot. He felt he needed a story and when the characters were involved with the story, it was almost like they were out of character. They were doing things or saying things that i don't think these characters would have done. This probably makes no sense to anybody but its my blog so who cares. In this story he learned from his mistake and basically had no plot and things just occurred. Its not one story but a bunch of stories. This is the case for the book up until the last 100 pages or so when the story moves to London and there a plot. The change over isn't that smooth and i don't like it. But the first 3/4 of the book is just great and it makes up for a lackluster end of the book. It also has too much of a contrived and Hollywood type ending.
You kinda have to be English or live in England for a while to get some of jokes. You also have to know a typical British guy. Because you will think there no English guy who is like this, but then you remember the typical British guy you know and understand.
The last 100 pages or so is set mostly in England and it has some good jokes and such but in terms of the story i didn't like it. I can see why Clark did this as he probably had some jokes and thought he should throw them in. He describes very perfectly a night in the west end that will occur if you are A) drunk B) with English people and C)drunk.
I like A Year in Merde the best and was a bit disappointed but i still enjoyed this book a lot. Hopefully there a third book and Clark writes many more books. I will be buying them.
Stephen Clark
This is the sequel to A Year in Merde which is the funniest book I've ever read. This book is far from the previous book that I've reviewed. This book is for straight men and women who love to make fun of stereotypes. In the last book, the main character Paul West, who is English, gets a job and move to Paris. In this book, he is setting up a English cafe that will serve tea and English food(The French don't have much luck in finding out what's in Brown sauce). This series of books have no point except to make fun of the French, the English, hell all Europeans. I think Clark realized that in A Year in Merde, he had too much of a plot. He felt he needed a story and when the characters were involved with the story, it was almost like they were out of character. They were doing things or saying things that i don't think these characters would have done. This probably makes no sense to anybody but its my blog so who cares. In this story he learned from his mistake and basically had no plot and things just occurred. Its not one story but a bunch of stories. This is the case for the book up until the last 100 pages or so when the story moves to London and there a plot. The change over isn't that smooth and i don't like it. But the first 3/4 of the book is just great and it makes up for a lackluster end of the book. It also has too much of a contrived and Hollywood type ending.
You kinda have to be English or live in England for a while to get some of jokes. You also have to know a typical British guy. Because you will think there no English guy who is like this, but then you remember the typical British guy you know and understand.
The last 100 pages or so is set mostly in England and it has some good jokes and such but in terms of the story i didn't like it. I can see why Clark did this as he probably had some jokes and thought he should throw them in. He describes very perfectly a night in the west end that will occur if you are A) drunk B) with English people and C)drunk.
I like A Year in Merde the best and was a bit disappointed but i still enjoyed this book a lot. Hopefully there a third book and Clark writes many more books. I will be buying them.
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