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Having a Lovely Time

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Having A Lovely Time was at times wickedly funny and had the potential to be a good read BUT for me it was spoilt by the use of crude (and at times really crude) language and an ending that I found both shocking and harrowing - not to go into great details but the concluding chapters included an act I found totally abhorrent and yet because it was committed by a woman (Alice), the victim being her drunken, semi-conscious husband (Guy), as opposed to the other way around there seemed to be the feeling that this was acceptable. What was the author thinking?

Having a Lovely Time

This book is simply a sticky, stinky, yucky blob of nastyness. By golly, there isn't a single pleasurable character in the whole book, and the one I'd save, poor Alice, well, it's the ultimate victim of the author's nastiest joke. I was disgusted by the extravagant largesse of four letter world the author bestowes on the unlucky reader,to say nothing of the profusion of disgusting body function's detailed descriptions. Foul and nasty, nasty, nasty,

At first I did not think I would like this book and it took a while to get used to the lingo. The characters were pretty funny and the way they all came together in Italy was interesting. I would try another book by this author.

On the plus side, this book is both honest and funny, however, the characters are a bit caricature-ish, and it's just too obvious which ones you're supposed to like. Otherwise, a fun read.