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Summary: Few books make you laugh out loud...
Review: But... this is one. Featuring English humour at its most incisive and similar to, but even better than, Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity", "The Best a Man Can Get" surrounds a clever storyline with more superb "one liners" than any other book I've read. Well written, and genuinely reflective on the dichotomies facing men when their lives become totally disrupted by childbirth, it's addictive and above all "funny". How good?... well my wife, children & I watched with great amusement as our (male, one loving wife, two loving children) friend completely disrupted a day and a half of our recent holiday as he raced through it, accompanied by regular and wholly disconcerting hoots of laughter. Once finished, I picked it up and read it straight through in similar time accompanied by similarly uncontrolled outbursts. It's totally "non-PC" and very "English" but it's honest, brilliantly witty and, in the end, charmingly tender. If you're male, if you shared a flat when you were younger and if you've had children, you will definitely relate to it - if not, well... treat it as an instruction manual on how men in that situation really think.
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Summary: Totally Fantastic !!
Review: Can't wait till he does it again! This book is practically guaranteed to make you laugh out loud and make the people around you on the train or the plane wonder what its all about, as you realise that you are three stops ahead of where you were supposed to get off. Be warned! Your body may not be able to take all the sudden bursts of laughter, but your soul will be forever thankful!
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Summary: The Best a Reader Can Get
Review: From start to finish I felt "involved".I worked in Clapham at the time I read the book which helped. It's probably the best laugh I have ever had out of a book.
I'd love to see it made into a film. If done right, with the right characters, it could run rings around Bridget Jones.
The phone box incident and the "gay denial" were classic!!
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Summary: Any guy with wife+young kids will find this book hilarious
Review: Have you ever wondered how others make it through the day? Well, John O'Farrell answers that question, and others, with hilarious, sardonic wit. This is a treasure trove of laser precision observations on life, love, and marriage, that'll have you laughing out loud.BTW, I casually bought this book at London's Heathrow, and soon it was, "Eiffel Tower? No, no, let me just read a few more chapters..."
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Summary: Hilariously Funny!
Review: Have you ever wondered how others make it through the day? Well, John O'Farrell answers that question, and others, with hilarious, sardonic wit. This is a treasure trove of laser precision observations on life, love, and marriage, that'll have you laughing out loud. BTW, I casually bought this book at London's Heathrow, and soon it was, "Eiffel Tower? No, no, let me just read a few more chapters..."
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read!
Review: I enjoyed the book so much that I felt lost when I finished reading it. As a mother of two young children, I could understand what the characters were experiencing. I laughed out loud as I read the book. My husband only reads things with lots of pictures. He knew I was enjoying this wonderful book. I would stop and explain what was happening and even read small parts of the book to him (it's a start). It was so wonderfully written!
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Summary: A Fun Read
Review: I finished The Best a Man Can Get last night. This book book had shades of High Fidelity only with the main character dealing with kids and marriage.John O' Farrell's book somes up what it's like to be a guy. Besides, anyone who helped write the hilarious Chicken Run can't be anything other than funny.
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Summary: I LOVED this book!!!!
Review: I read The Best A Man Can Get over the holidays and I loved it! It is a comedy with tradgedies weaved into it. It is brilliantly written and chokingly funny. READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: A real romp!
Review: If you're looking for a good summer read, this is it! Get out the sunscreen and hit the beach. O'Farrell's comic writing is a hoot. Michael Adams is the composer of ad jingles who leads a double life, hiding out across town from his pregnant wife and two children while living in his "office" which is a flat he shares with three single men. While the story is a good one, it's the little jokes along the way that make it so special. More than once my husband came into the room to ask why I was laughing so. I won't reveal more; discover the fun for yourself!
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Summary: Not the best but pretty close
Review: If you've ever felt the urge to pack it all in and leave your wife and kids - read this book! Funny and touching in equal measures, it deals with that point in a man's life when he is stuck between feeling like a teenager whilst having the responsibilities of a middle-aged man. Having read John O'Farrell's other novel and being a regular reader of his newspaper column in the UK, I was looking forward to his first stab at fiction. And I wasn't disappointed. OK, so it's not going to win the Nobel Prize for Literature - but it will make you laugh from beginning to end, wince with recognition all the way through and will probably force a tear from your eyes.
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