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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you've holidayed at the British coast read this!
Connolly disects the British class system with a hilarious examination of snobbery, greed and jealousy wrapped into a farcial summer holiday. This is laugh out loud funny made all the better because I read it on a beach in Tahitit - about as far removed from the British coastal holiday described in the book as you can get.
Published on September 9, 1999 by peter.barlow@dial.pipex.com
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3.0 out of 5 stars
amusing light entertainment
This is quite fun as a humorous novel; not as annoying as Tom Sharpe, who often tries too hard to be "dark and ironic," and not especially well written, but decent light reading. (As usual with British comic novels, the scenes set in the U.S. show a lack of anything but a very superficial familiarity with things American.)
Published 23 months ago by Always a critic
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you've holidayed at the British coast read this!,
By peter.barlow@dial.pipex.com (Crewe, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Summer Things (Paperback)
Connolly disects the British class system with a hilarious examination of snobbery, greed and jealousy wrapped into a farcial summer holiday. This is laugh out loud funny made all the better because I read it on a beach in Tahitit - about as far removed from the British coastal holiday described in the book as you can get.
3.0 out of 5 stars
amusing light entertainment,
By Always a critic (Ithaca, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Summer Things (Paperback)
This is quite fun as a humorous novel; not as annoying as Tom Sharpe, who often tries too hard to be "dark and ironic," and not especially well written, but decent light reading. (As usual with British comic novels, the scenes set in the U.S. show a lack of anything but a very superficial familiarity with things American.)
2.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining but bad,
By Lilja (Italy) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Summer Things (Paperback)
If you like - really like - farce, this is the book for you. If you just tolerate it, it's an ok pastime (but you'd better not pay it full price, if you ask me.) If you're looking for a book which is funny, subtle and smart though, look elsewhere. Connolly aspires to make sharp satire but by depicting all characters like sex/money/stuff-obsessed morons, he's just flat and unoriginal.
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Summer Things by Joseph Connolly (Paperback - Jan. 1999)
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