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With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed

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The 5 hour audio version of this book IS hilarious. Robert Bathurst is astounding with his multiple character voices and knowing side comments he makes directly to the listener. This is true Brittish farce, a caper that reaches ridiculous proportions but your having so much fun that you suspend your disbelief and laugh out loud. One character likes the "F" word and another has a steamy bedroom scene, so it is not for the timid sort. I highly recommend it as good writing and great story telling!

I picked up this audio book as a fluke. I was positively suprised. I like English humor. Also, I enjoy not knowing what is going to happen next. I listened to this book on my way from and to work: I could not stop laughing. I can only imagine the other drivers at 6am watching me laugh out loud to myself while stopped in traffic, they must have thought I was CrAZy!

I ordered this book from the library, after it was briefly referred to as "hilarious" in a recent review of "Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door". Sadly, I found that it didn't live up to its billing.

It's not a dreadful book, and certainly it is better than any first novel that I am likely to write. But neither its characters nor its storyline are very interesting, and I can certainly see why it faded into obscurity when it was originally published.