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Jim Keeble

Auteur de My Fat Brother

6 oeuvres 136 utilisateurs 2 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Comprend les noms: Jim Keeble, James Keeble, James Keeble

Crédit image: Courtesy of the author

Œuvres de Jim Keeble

My Fat Brother (2003) 47 exemplaires
Men and Other Mammals (2003) 46 exemplaires
The Happy Numbers of Julius Miles (2012) 9 exemplaires
Morocco (Thomas Cook Travellers) (1995) 7 exemplaires
The A-Z of Us (2005) 4 exemplaires

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Pearl Ruled @ p59
The Publisher Says: Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite sex and struggling to bring his existence into balance. When he stumbles across the girl next door naked and dead on her Victorian tiles, he starts to unravel the one equation that’s eluded him: that of his own life. And so it is that with the most unlikely of assistants – a transsexual Cupid with a penchant for drugs – he embarks on a quest to find the truth about love, death, family and how, ultimately, you make your numbers happy.

I RECEIVED AN ARC FROM THE PUBLISHER. THANK YOU.

My Review
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Even murder cops get bored. They're as keen as the rest of us to go home and watch television. It's not the gunslingers who solve crime but the pedants and the bores, my old man explained. "The evidence is is always there, son. Most cases are solved by a pig-headed copper going back one last time.

There is one more thing he told me, my cop father. Because it acts as an alibi, and because they get a kick out of seeing the pain and grief they've caused, killers often attend the funerals of their victims.

This is A Confederacy of Dunces plus equations, divided by Ignatius J. Reilly's nasty attitude towards others, times neurodivergent Othering plus fatphobia. There are a lot of characters. They speak, or think, in short bursts. There's a transgender woman playing matchmaker...and called a transsexual. Well, to be fair, this came out in 2012 and that was okay then.

But it just is not doing it for me at all. I am releasing the tree book into the Little Free Library as of now.
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richardderus | Aug 26, 2022 |
I enjoyed this book. The fictional narrator is Scott Barron, a successful writer, with a gorgeous girlfriend. Scott has a brother, Jes, who, while far less successful than Scott, is happily married and enjoys his life.

They love each other, as brothers do, but are not especially close. But then there is a tragedy in the family, and both of their lives start unravelling. The knock on effect is that they start blaming each other for their insecurities, and old resentments are dragged up.

Despite the subject matter, this is a humorous book, although the narrator has a tendency to pity himself, and is not as likeable as you may expect.
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½
 
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Ruth72 | Dec 24, 2007 |

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Œuvres
6
Membres
136
Popularité
#149,926
Évaluation
2.9
Critiques
2
ISBN
20

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