Wonderful

Witty, moving, laugh-out loud, intricate and profound. A wonderful novel, brilliantly read. Highly recommend.

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Could be better

somewhere between eat pray and love and something obscure.. didn't enjoy it at all. or maybe had high expectations.

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Touchingly Funny

Oh how I fell in love with our hero. So imperfect. The misfit. The mobile mishap.

I was taken on a journey. Details so clear to transport without drowning you.

Charmingly written. So full of heart.

I loved it.

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yes and ?

I cant think what to write as a review that would actually be helpful here. This story is a mildly amusing character study about a hapless man travelling in wildly different countries (who really would go from mexico to germany to morocco to japan with the same few clothes and one after other.. ..) with the expected happy ending and thats all.
Also a fatal flaw - given that Arthur Less is supposed to be unlucky, accident prone etc. its a bit of a stretch to believe this when he is on an all expenses paid world trip, meets amazing people, wins a literary prize, is lauded wherever he goes, gets plenty of sex, is tall blonde handsome etc. He is hardly one of life’s losers.
Is this story worth spending a credit on ?
Doubtful.

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Engaging

This novel is quite clever in that it intentionally makes you fall in love with the protagonist and find him completely frustrating at the same time. He bumbles through life, able to go and do whatever he pleases with every blessing in the world all the while complaining that his life is terrible and hard. Yet he is still somehow charming.

The writing is witty (I loved the turns of phrase 'Less-ian this and Less-ian that') and engaging, but for me the conclusion didn't quite pay off and sometimes it was hard to care about what happened to Less. However, overall I liked it quite a lot.

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A nice book - thats all I can say

I think that being the Pulitzer Prize winner means that you go into this book with very high expectations but I am not sure that it lived up to the, probably, uninvited hype. Don't get me wrong its a nice story about a man named Arthur Less who travels the world to avoid dealing with his ex boyfriends wedding and meets strangers and friends along the way . It is well written, the characters enjoyable and a very good narrator, but I am not sure this book had the impact that I expected it to. Its a nice book, I'm afraid that is all I can say. I didn't laugh, I didn't cry, but I did listen to the whole book through and was left thinking 'yeah that was ok.'

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If you like this kind of thing …

I so wanted to love this. The premise was fabulous. The opening chapters so beautifully involved. But boy, did I lose interest fast. It’s well written, but it sounds written. What could have been a deeper dive into realisations for Arthur Less became ever so slightly self pitying and like a slow train crash of a mid life crisis. This is just me though. There are so many wonderful slow burns and so much to admire, but they land as set pieces rather than a portrait, it’s a sketch.

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Incredible

An extremely relatable story, tender and amusing well developed characters. Paints an incredibly vivid journey!

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FABULOUS!

My advice ... listen, enjoy and fall in love with Arthur Less. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

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well narrated

I struggled to get into the print copy, but it was very well narrated. An uplifting gay Odyssey

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