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Buy PENGUIN Just Like You by Nick Hornby online on desertcart.ae at best prices. ✓ Fast and free shipping ✓ free returns ✓ cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Review: I used to be a fan of Hornby, because his characters always seemed real and believable. Unfortunately lately it seems that he writes hoping to sell the rights easily for some silly American romcom. The topic of this book could be so interesting: the relationship of a white woman in her 40s having and a black man in his early 20s, but I simply didn't buy it. I don't understand why it started at all. The characters are so poorly developed that I couldn't get their motivations and, why they are together, we cannot get to know them deeper and what's going on with them. Besides all the other characters are just a pile of cliches or were just placed there to add some paragraphs to the book, they had no importance at all, like that Michael person that simply disappears or her sons that could be perfectly replaced by dogs as didn't add anything to the plot and their mother doesn't seem to care about them or about anything at all actually. And nothing really happens. We read a lot of descriptions of what meat she's buying, what is served for dinner or tea, but nothing adds to the plot. Even when people start talking about them being together or when she realizes that her sons know about them, nothing! No tension, no funny thing, no plot twist, no development, simply nothing. Hornby witty writing has been replaced here for some f* words probably trying to reach an audience that think that this is bold writing. Review: Das Buch ist ein sehr unterhaltsamer Pageturner, mit dem gewohnten sprachlichen Witz, wie man ihn bei Hornby erwartet. Es geht um Alters- und Milieuunterschiede in Beziehungen aber auch um den Brexit, Rassismus, Trump. Letztlich die Frage, mit wem man zusammen sein will und wieso. Ich musste oft sehr laut lachen und konnte das Buch kaum weglegen. Sehr zu empfehlen.
| Best Sellers Rank | #74,510 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #446 in European Literature #814 in Humorous Fiction #844 in Contemporary Romance |
| Customer reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (593) |
| Dimensions | 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN-10 | 0241983258 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241983256 |
| Item weight | 223 g |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 350 pages |
| Publication date | 15 April 2021 |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
R**F
I used to be a fan of Hornby, because his characters always seemed real and believable. Unfortunately lately it seems that he writes hoping to sell the rights easily for some silly American romcom. The topic of this book could be so interesting: the relationship of a white woman in her 40s having and a black man in his early 20s, but I simply didn't buy it. I don't understand why it started at all. The characters are so poorly developed that I couldn't get their motivations and, why they are together, we cannot get to know them deeper and what's going on with them. Besides all the other characters are just a pile of cliches or were just placed there to add some paragraphs to the book, they had no importance at all, like that Michael person that simply disappears or her sons that could be perfectly replaced by dogs as didn't add anything to the plot and their mother doesn't seem to care about them or about anything at all actually. And nothing really happens. We read a lot of descriptions of what meat she's buying, what is served for dinner or tea, but nothing adds to the plot. Even when people start talking about them being together or when she realizes that her sons know about them, nothing! No tension, no funny thing, no plot twist, no development, simply nothing. Hornby witty writing has been replaced here for some f* words probably trying to reach an audience that think that this is bold writing.
C**H
Das Buch ist ein sehr unterhaltsamer Pageturner, mit dem gewohnten sprachlichen Witz, wie man ihn bei Hornby erwartet. Es geht um Alters- und Milieuunterschiede in Beziehungen aber auch um den Brexit, Rassismus, Trump. Letztlich die Frage, mit wem man zusammen sein will und wieso. Ich musste oft sehr laut lachen und konnte das Buch kaum weglegen. Sehr zu empfehlen.
M**T
Love Nick Hornby and really enjoyed this book, it was touching and funny
B**A
es verdad que no es la mejor novela de Nick Hornby pero te hace sentir bien y eso es impagable
A**X
Der Roman behandelt u.a. Themen wie Rassismus, Brexit, Paare mit großem Altersunterschied, Trennung und ist doch eine erfreulich leichte Lektüre mit viel Humor, Sprachwitz und Tiefe. Eine total überzeugende Reife Leistung von Hornby.
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