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Gill
Jan 27, 2010 rated it liked it
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Three, four, three? I couldn't decide the star rating. I'd read Portuguese Irregular Verbs and The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs before this book arrived, and I hadn't realised that it was a compilation of the three volumes so I actually went straight on to At The Villa of Reduced Circumstances.

Having the three volumes in one enabled me to compare the physical properties of the three: 130 pages divided into 8 chapters in the first, approximately the same number of pages divided into 5 chapters f
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Jo
Oct 24, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Hilarious. Dry wit. Subtle humor. Wonderfully weird and awkward situations. I can't get enough. From beloved Germany to Ireland to Italy England and Columbia, Igelfeld leaves his mark. I want more von Igelfeld. What will he do next? There is absolutely no way to know what petty problem or imagined slight will set our hero off. If McCall Smith ever decides to return to the world of German academia, I'll be first in line to read the further adventures of the professor doctor. Update: Yeah! A book ...more
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