This nobody will have you in stitches (The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith)

Member Name: ladybracknell

Product:	The Diary of a Nobody - George Grossmith
Date:	09/11/08 (32 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Extremely funny

Disadvantages: None unless you've had a sense of humour bypass

I'm amazed that nobody has written a review of this excellent book before now. The mind-numbingly yet hilarious world of Pooter is a joy.

Charles Pooter, along with his wife Carrie, move to a new house, The Laurels in Holloway and Pooter resolves to keep a diary. One gets the impression he harbours a great desire to go down in posterity as a latter-day Pepys but as you read the diary, you realise that there is no way that is ever going to happen! His life is filled with the mundane and his diary is full of very dreary everyday occurrences which somehow are extremely funny. This is largely because it is soon very apparent that Pooter is an exceptionally pompous sort of person who would be avoided like the plague in real life. He also seems to have the misguided notion from time to time that he can tell jokes.

The book begins with Pooter and Mrs Pooter moving in and they soon have problems with the boot scraper. Not much of an opportunity for humour, you would think, but think again. This is really laugh out loud stuff, especially if you have a strong sense of the ridiculous.

The book was written in the late 19th century and is in the same tradition of humour as Jerome K Jerome. Despite being in print for over a hundred years, the humour is still as fresh today.

Give yourself a treat and read this book. You won't regret it.

Summary: The hilariously mundane world of Pooter is a delight in the tradition of Jerome K Jerome.