The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Aug 24, 2019 Sarah rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, euro-fiction

I picked this book, having seen it everywhere, in the Stockholm airport on a business trip. I thought I would get some Scandinavian reading for my trip to Scandinavia. And I was immediately hooked - the beginning chapters of the book, up through perhaps half of it, were laugh-out-loud funny, and I enjoyed picking up a lighthearted book, which is not something I do often and wish there were more high-quality ones to pick up. And overall, the book continued to be an entertaining read. But somewher ...more

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May 11, 2023 Grace rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: book-groups

OK, I think this one was the official end of my reading of "cute" Swedish books with this kind of cover that were made so pervasive by Fredrik Backman and others. I am not a fan of Backman, but he's not nearly as bad as this book was. I finished it for book group, but it wasn't one I'd pick, and I'll definitely avoid this author from here on out. Here are some reasons why. 1) Pretty much everyone in the book is a criminal. They aren't evil, just so vilely self-centered they can't recognize that ...more

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Mar 28, 2021 Nicole rated it it was ok

Shelves: cl-book-club

This had its funny moments. But mostly felt long and meandering and unbelievable. I know, it’s fiction, but it just didn’t work well for me.

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May 07, 2013 Devon rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013

I finally finished this delightful, funny novel. If you think the title itself gives away the plot, you are only partly right because that particular action happens in the first sentence or two in the novel. The rest is about what happens once he does escape, but also about his history and how he came to be in the Old Folks' Home in the first place.

While there may be a Forrest Gump quality as some of the reviews I read mentioned, it is only in the protagonist's inclusion and impact on historica ...more

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Sep 30, 2013 Christina, Join Me on Storygraph! rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2013

I really enjoyed this story, about a fairly ordinary man who has extraordinary experiences (hence, the Forrest Gump comparisons). themes include making judgements (like what could an old geezer possibly be capable of, how dumb could someone named Einstein possibly be, etc) and you might consider what really caused some of the geopolitical events of the last century or so.

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