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Chargement... T-Shirt and Genes (édition 2001)par Richard Asplin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. My copy was one of those cheaply produced books, slightly smaller than average, where the text travels right into the gully between the pages making it a struggle to read. About sixty pages in I cracked the spine in exasperation. At least I could read to the end of each line but the pages started falling out. The sort of book that makes you think Kindles are a really good idea. The sort of book that puts me in a bad mood before I’ve even begun to evaluate the text. And really, the text wasn’t bad, the author writes with considerable wit and energy and is a whizz with puns. I just wish it had been easier to read – not just because of the production. Some of the humour was a bit convoluted, it took a bit of untwisting. And a lot of the time the story doesn’t seem to be moving on – just the narrator navel gazing and, well, punning. That’s probably the point – the whole thing surrounds a guy who loses his girlfriend and his job over a regrettable sexual incident and goes into a tailspin of blokey despair. It’s the sort of book that if it had been written by a female author would have come across as patronising in an eye-rolling aren’t-men-hopeless sort of way. I probably would have enjoyed it so much more if it hadn’t been such a faff to read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
It may be every teacher's secret fantasy to have a quickie with their beloved in the staff common room during parents' evening, but having the governors walking in and interrupting is not normally part of the equation (unless you're really kinky). When this happens to Charlie, he rapidly finds himself without job and fiancee. A disaster... or a new beginning? Charlie plays the field - and the field wins. Retreating to lick his wounds he returns to his biology textbooks and considers the nature of mating - why do we do the things we do. Darwin, Dawkins and the London Zoo gorillas all provide inspiration. And after some thought, he begins to implement an entirely new set of courtship rules. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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