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Espresso Tales: The Latest from 44 Scotland Street by: Alexander McCall Smith List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.89 You Save: £2.10 (26%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780349119700 ISBN: 0349119708 Label: Abacus Manufacturer: Abacus Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: June 01, 2006 Publisher: Abacus Studio: Abacus Sales Rank: 1433 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - I wish I knew the People that live at 44 Scotland Street......if nothing else they are entertaining. This is the second in Alexander McCall Smiths 44 Scotland Street series. I absolutely loved the first one, and this didn't disappoint either. The stories of the characters we met first in 44 Scotland street are continued. I especially love the 6 year old prodigy Bertie, and his awful mother. Although I must admit to wanting to hit Bruce - hard! I do enjoy the way Alexander McCall Smith writes, there is real feel good factor to his novels. It won't be long before I read the third of this series which I have tucked away waiting to be read. Rating: - A Complete Delight!If you don't find this book laugh-out-loud funny, then you will have altogether missed the point! Every bit as delightful as 44 Scotland Street, the parody of Edinburgh characters continues in the author's usual witty fashion, with scenes of the ridiculous (but often not altogether impossible) and individual personality traits highlighted to the greatest degree. It's a superb comment upon the ridiculous... In fact, do we even realise how ridiculous our society can potentially be!? Get back in touch with old friends from 44 Scotland Street. There's Pat, the young 20-something soon-to-be student... should she go to the nudist party at Moray Place? She's still working in the Art Gallery for Matthew & it's now turning a profit... ... Read More: Rating:  - More a yummy frappuccinoIf anyone takes this book seriously, they're making a mistake. I've just finished Espresso Tales and from reading 44 Scotland Street I knew I was in for a light read and had to suspend belief if only to enjoy it. Look at the signals from the previous book - a Conservative Party dinner that only has six people - a five year old boy suspended from nursery for writing rude Italian graffiti on the toilet walls - a surveyor who is so vain and self centered no-one in Edinburgh would likely give him a job [I wouldn't]. It wasn't likely, but it was funny. This time it's even less believable, but even funnier. It's the ridiculous, almost surreal quality in Bertie's story that makes it so funny. The Ramsay chapters ... Read More: Rating:  - McYawn!Well, I loved the first book, tube travel has never been such a pleasure! On more than one occasion I contemplated sitting on the Northern Line all the way to High Barent - it was just such a fun book to read. I was really looking forward to Espresso Tales and couldn't wait to take the slow train to Leeds to make a good 2 hour dent in the book! Although a enjoyed reading it I feel it lacked the passion and humour of the first in the series. I have to agree with other reviewers the Ramsey chapters left me yawning! I would recommend reading all of McCall Smith's books although I felt this was the poorer it was still a good read. I just hope the 3rds better than the first! Rating: - 44 Scotland Street Gets A KickWell, it looks as though the commute is doing its job because suddenly I am falling behind in my blogging, as opposed to my reading. I've finished two books in the past week and, thus far, haven't found time to write about them. Therefore there might be a kind of double feature thing going on here.. that is, if I don't fall asleep first (hey, I have to get up early!). I know I said I would try to wait to read Alexander McCall Smith's Espresso Tales until a trip to Edinburgh was on the horizon. But with a new job and no holiday time in sight, as well as a fairly depleted bank balance, I decided to take the plunge. To give the author his due, when I saw the novel sitting in WH Smith, I really couldn't resist buying it. I've ... Read More: |
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