Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Rating:
Summary: WELL WORTH IT!
Review: I bought this book from Amazon UK last year because it wasn't
yet published in the U.S. It cost me a good $20.00 with the shipping, but it was well worth it. Entertaining, funny, a good read. McCall Smith came through again. I laughed out loud, good and hard, several times. I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: A Wonderful Read
Review: I picked up all three books in this series while I was London. It's a wonderful read. Absolutely hysterical. For those of you who appreciate the idiosyncrasy
of German Humor , you will find these works to be classic. I only wish a few more titles were added to this series.


Rating:
Summary: For those who love 'British' humor or perhaps Frasier
Review: The first of three books in the Professor Dr von Igelfeld Series (same author as #1 Ladies Detective...).

Comical episodes surrounding the mishaps of three extremely rigid (and hysterical) German professors who are experts (of course) in their field of language/linguistics (imagine a German version of Fraiser). Racked by guilt and self-certainty, waves of supreme confidence and landslides of self-doubt, their everyday incidents will have you laughing aloud. Fans of Basil Faulty or P. G. Wodehouse and like British-humor will delight in the characters and their very digestible episodes. Each book is quite short (~120 pages) and you'll probably end up with all three.

Rating:
Summary: For anyone with any sense of humour!
Review: This is for anyone with any kind of sense of humour - British but also American. (My American wife LOVES these books as much as I do - and so do many American friends of ours). This whole series is side-splittingly funny - you don't have to have been to university, or met genuinely strange German philologists to enjoy the totally wacky sense of humour in all 3 of the series. Ever had a boss take credit for your work? Well, so has the hero of this series... In other words, this and the two sequels are splendid, and for EVERYONE. In addition this series (and the mystery set in Edinburgh) show that McCall Smith really is a genius, since the voice in this series, in the Sunday Philosphy Club and in the justly famed Ramotswe series, are all completely different. McCall Smith truly is a writer of talent, with 3 quite distinct literary voices, all of which are equally enjoyable. Make this series a fun read for a great weekend. Christopher Catherwood (author of CHURCHILL'S FOLLY: HOW WINSTON CHURCHILL CREATED MODERN IRAQ (Carroll and Graf, 2004)