Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Paperback – 5 August 2010

What a narrative style. Enjoyed back to back

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Set in Ireland, the book is a narration by an eight year old. He narrates about his friends, his family and his school, though the priority changes as the narration progresses. He narrates how he spends his days, his studies, his friends and the numerous acts done together. He also narrates the families in his locality and the changes in the locality and his life. The story follows how a naïve eight year old tries to become a responsible ten year old. The narration of the different instances is interspersed by his musings about his life in general, and it shows the growth of maturity in him.The narration is continuous and has no chapters. This requires a constant vigil from the reader over the context of each paragraph. What catches the reader are,a. The continuous flow of narration, for the narration does not start or stop anywhere. Every scenario narrated has an easy flow from the earlier scenario though they may be disjoint.b. The scenarios narrated bring back many of our childhood memories. However, after a point it does not hold on.c. The book is the narration and has no other plot in it, or, so you feel till about three fourths of the book.d. The build up to the end is subtle and the reader can be sure to miss it.e. The usage of colloquial slangs.Overall it was not a great read for me. I would suggest that it can be chewed in parts but largely to be swallowed.

This book is a joy to read. You really get the child's eye view of life and all its wonder. I highly recommend this book.

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It was along time since I bought this product and I totally forgot about it.Thank you very much

I read this book years ago and enjoyed reading it again. The writer has a great ear for dialogue.

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