Reserved for the Zurich BookHunt 2007

Released on 30 June 2007, 2 p.m., at Hotel Greulich (Herm.-Greulich-Str.), on a bench next to the advertisement pillar

on my path to grab-the-Irving I found this book too. It was after the hunt still near Hotel Greulich, untouched.
"_" If only I had hunted in this direction, instead of losing my time to bookless places in Niederdorf ...

The good thing: This book is a comic thriller and has nothing to do with the equally named Rugby Club. The less good thing: it’s somehow encrypted. If your have no British mother-tongue you hardly can understand a quarter of all the puns; if you are not a native Londoner (knowing the Millenium Dome) you can’t laugh about the picture on the cover ... (the wasp is redundant, IMHO)

In the first chapter (narrated by a wee girl) a terrible car accident happens. In the second chapter the wee girl has grown up and runs a crêpe-stall in Greenwich. In the third chapter (well, maybe at the end of the second one) we learn that not the girl is talking but a young man named Bic ...
Ok., it lacks a bit of dramaturgy but it’s throughout funny and a page-turner. That is, at first its hilarious comic-style needs some habituation.

Radcliffe is best when he subtly describes landscapes and architecture - he overdoes when it comes to actions and dialogues and lacks there completely seriousness. You see a brillant writer as long he doesn’t play the clown . But then he gives the topic away to comical shallowness. Nevertheless Radcliffe’s humour is still black like guinness, and there is a lot to laugh. Also you might learn a bit of lingo ^__^

RELEASE NOTES:

have fun by reading this stouty humoresque ;)

I took the book home with me from the meetup yesterday evening.

I almost stopped reading the book after the first 20 pages or so. And I should have done so.
The book didn't convince me. After a while it was too comic, and too predictable. But I had to finish reading it anyway.

This book travels to Ireland now.

Thank you Sunneschii, I am delighted to receive this. I cannot find the book your requesteed, but will send you on some others which may interest you

Very enjoyable at the beginning and neatly closed out at the end, but it lost it's way and got a little bogged down in the middle.

I appreciate all the comments about in jokes. I definitely think you need to be Irish even more than a Londoner to get the jokes. Some very witty black comedic moments.

All in all the charcters were very well rounded out. Good read

Caught [well the lovely gizmopuddy passed this to me] at tonight's BCie meeetup in the Long Stone pub... Very much look forward to reading...