Time for Bed - David Baddiel

Mazel Tov! For this is a book about a sleep deprived Jewish bachelor who is obsessed with his brothers wife. Gabriel Jacoby is an unemployed wastrel with a porn obsessed euphoric schizophrenic flatmate. His time is divided between watching football, talking about football, watching chick flicks, porn and obsessing about his lack of sleep. For all that hes a surprisingly likable chap. The book on the other hand is anything but likeable. It has some fantastic one liners but its jammed full of Yiddish phrases and obscure uses of the English language which send you scurrying for a dictionary to work out precisely what a particular sentence actually means. Actually ...  Read the complete review

Even those who pride themselves on having earned their fortunes through an alternative lifestyle choice will inevitably conform to a number of clichés, demonstrated by stand up comedian David Baddiel’s first foray into novel writing in 1996. One of the self-professed overeducated middle class Oxbridge elite who have never done a decent day’s work in their lives, Baddiel’s experiences with presenting speech and enjoying pornography far too much lead to a high quality story of love, obsession and grim reality that is believable, sad and very funny. THE PLOT This fairly low-key story concerns Gabriel Jacoby, an unemployed man in his late ...  Read the complete review

I bought this book a few years ago when my holiday flight was cancelled. I was a great impulse buy as I didn't put it down until I had read it from cover to cover - did I mention it was a 5 hour delay?!?!?! I like David Baddiel's comedy work but didn't know how it would translate into book form. Why was I worried this book is excellent. It is, as the title to this op says, laugh out loud funny. I certainly got some funny looks at the airport when I cracked up at one of the funnier moments. This is the story of a young man who suffers insomnia who falls for his brothers wife and how he goes about his life, finding romance and visiting his ...  Read the complete review

This is a promising novel from Baddiel. I look forward to reading his next one - Advantages: very funny, preceptive , romantic - Disadvantages: none that i can think of off the top of my head: I enjoyed this book