The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Di... by Jonas Jonasson

A great feel good book that I would recommend to anybody. However, I found myself smiling as I turned the pages and couldn’t help but chuckle at some of the situations that Allan and his group of friends found themselves in. I wouldn’t say I was finding myself exploding into fits of hysterical laughter as I read the book. This book is pure entertainment as far as I am concerned. The book is also interspersed with flashbacks of Allan’s life and how he inadvertently managed to be in the right place at the wrong time and helped influence a number of events and changed the course of twentieth century history. As the book progresses, Allan collects a motley crew of really interesting but flawed characters plus an elephant, that somehow all manage to stay one step ahead of the police for much of the book. There then follows an unlikely but very amusing story of drug dealers trying to track the money down and the police starting a nationwide hunt for Allan after a warrant is issued for a triple murder.

He then sets out on a journey where he steals a suitcase which turns out to contain a fortune that was paid over to a group of bikers by a Russian organized crime syndicate as payment for a drug deal. The story is set in Sweden and is about the life and adventures of our hero Allan Karlsson who on his hundredth birthday climbed out the window of his old people’s home and disappeared. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book where the title so sums up what the book is all about. I found myself wondering at the 'ho-hum' attitude of our 'hero' in the face every every major event of his life.who the fuck would want to live 100 years with that kind of blase feeling about everything?! Are we supposed to root for a man who can't even be bothered to care that he spends a large portion of his 100 years behind bars? Readers are also expected to be dumb enough to swallow the idea that Sweden does not have access to forensic science in the year of our Lord 2005. I suppose this title will be the darling of book groups comprised of older ladies (centenarians?) but it's a horrid mashup of Big Fish and Forrest Gump. I actively groaned more times than be counted. Ha ha.people drink vodka! Ha ha! A man who doesn't like politics meets every important political leader over 5 decades.ha ha! Religion and politics are dumb. And this feeble comedy is hammered on with an incredible relentlessness over 400 pages.

The humor, if it could be called that, is roughly on par with children's knock knock jokes.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Di... by Jonas Jonasson