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A Spot of Bother

  • May 19, 2022
  • Mark Haddon
  • 566 responses.

[PDF] A Spot of Bother | by ↠ Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother, A Spot of Bother George Hall is ready to retire enjoy freedom to be alone But he runs into a spot of bother a skin lesion must be cancer Daughter Katie wants second husband inappropriate Ray Wife Jean is too busy

  • Title: A Spot of Bother
  • Author: Mark Haddon
  • ISBN: 9780099506928
  • Page: 278
  • Format: Paperback

[PDF] A Spot of Bother | by ↠ Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother George Hall is ready to retire enjoy freedom to be alone But he runs into a spot of bother a skin lesion must be cancer Daughter Katie wants second husband inappropriate Ray Wife Jean is too busy carrying on with George s ex colleague to plan a wedding Son Jamie fails to invite his lover Tony Meanwhile George goes quietly mad [PDF] A Spot of Bother | by ↠ Mark Haddon - A Spot of Bother, A Spot of Bother George Hall is ready to retire enjoy freedom to be alone But he runs into a spot of bother a skin lesion must be cancer Daughter Katie wants second husband inappropriate Ray Wife Jean is too busy

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  • [PDF] A Spot of Bother | by ↠ Mark Haddon
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About "Mark Haddon"

  1. Mark Haddon

    Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Aspergers syndrome Haddon s knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man In an interview at Powells, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences His second adult novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children s BBC sitcom He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs s story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004 He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery He describes himself as a hard line atheist In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said I am atheist in a very religious mould His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid.Mark Haddon lives in Oxford with his wife Dr Sos Eltis, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and their two young sons.

566 Comments

  1. I pretty much hated this book It was the type of book that you read because you liked the author s other work, but it s so aggressively bad that it makes you reconsider whether or not you actually liked the author s previous work upon closer consideration.So what was so bad about it Well, for the one the characters simply didn t ring true They all felt poorly sketched out, just a bunch of people having what Haddon would have you believe are constant epiphanies about their sad little lives He wri [...]

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  2. As we approach the end of my first year of recorded and reviewed reading, I have read almost no bad books The Fermata was bad, but the guy could write, he just decided to write something we all thought was fucking awful.This was a bad book.Oh how do I hate this book Let me count the ways 1 Every word in this novel is written in conversational, lazy prose Absolutely is used repeatedly for emphasis Cue something or other The kind of verbal junk we are all guilty of in verbal conversation, but lett [...]

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  3. i don t know why people who ve read the curious incident of the dog in the night time would find this second novel a let down it seems to me equally tender, sweet, and heartbreaking it s also hilariously funny haddon does heartbreaking and funny with such grace, simplicity, and verbal virtuosity, it s wonderful i admire this writer greatly what i admire most about him is that he shows us the behavior of crazy people who do crazy things from the inside, and from the inside these crazy things make [...]

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  4. People going into Mark Haddon s latest novel, A Spot of Bother expecting anything like his smash hit debut, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time are going to be sorely disappointed And rightfully so, because if Haddon had reproduced the same sort of story as he did in his first novel, we d all be complaining about how he was such a one trick pony In fact, I m glad he got the unconvential work that is The Curious Incident out of the way first, so that he can now settle himself into w [...]

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  5. WowI just notice Mark Haddon has a new book coming out short stories The Pier Falls I entered the give a way a girl can hope I LOVED this book sooooooooooooo much I had a few copies at one time gave copies away.For some reason I like this MORE than a few of my friends but I was DYING LAUGHING forgive me if I sound nasty.during the bedroom scenesd then there was the daughter s wedding I just LOVED this book and could read it again I adore the authors sense of humor.I thought it was hilarious AND [...]

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  6. Modest past review discovered to have been lost in an import from Shelfari The survival of a modest man shown charmingly with much deadpan humor George Hall thinks he has cancer, which shapes how he reacts to mundane crises, such as an unfaithful wife, a son struggling with gayness, and a daughter about to marry poorly He seems to gain a sense of sanity from learning first hand how crazy everyone else is Our lovable hero just keeps having bad luck, but always rises to the surface The internal d [...]

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  7. A Spot of Bother is an alternating POV story about going quietly mad and loudly sane, and love under all our layers of repression and confusion There s newly retired dad George, politely failing to bury his increasing obsessive thoughts of mortality under a zest for home renovations Mom Jean, already balancing familial duty and work and volunteering, is just trying to find time for her passionate affair with a long time acquaintance Their outspoken grown up daughter Katie intends to marry her b [...]

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  8. This is a really good, absorbing drama about a family in crisis and in particular tells the story of George who, at the age of 57, suddenly faces the fact that he is not going to live forever upon the discovery of a lesion on his hip Wife Jean is sleeping with an old work colleague of his Daughter Katie is preparing her wedding to Ray, a man who is universally disliked by her family and to be honest, she is not sure whether she is marrying him for the right reasons Finally, son Jamie is facing a [...]

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  9. This book made Curious Incident fans wail and gnash their teeth in 2006 Who knows how Haddon s reputation fares today, following the lukewarm response to this breezy domestic drama I get the impression children s voices are his forte, what with being a bestselling kids author and all In fact, some of the best lines in this book belong to the toddler Jacob and revolve around poo and ice cream But this is hardly worth a literary excommunication It is the sort of book only established authors can [...]

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  10. A very entertaining and intelligent page turner , which is a rare combination of traits As a story told from four well written viewpoints, it succeeds in evoking an emotional connection with the characters But I worry about too much modern fiction presenting the literary equivalent of short serial television episodes all jumbled together in something described as a novel I suppose readers attention spans are becoming shorter, but should fiction really cater to that fact There is definitely a cra [...]

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  11. Hilarious What a wonderful story, that kept me laughing the whole time Haddon does a wonderful job giving his characters life It made me wonder what I ll be like when I retire will I be as crazy and eccentric as the main character.

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  12. I m not really sure what to say about this one I really can t generate strong feelings one way or another on its behalf It wasn t bad but it wasn t good and conversely, it wasn t good but it wasn t bad It had likable moments and parts that I laughed at And some of Haddon s descriptions were priceless e.g the chickeny scrotum bit But then there was the rest of it I kept feeling that if it was either good or bad, I would have relished finishing it so that I could relish talking about it.But it was [...]

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  13. First the quibbles Haddon s a young guy He has a young guy s perspective, which is to say, a limited perspective His portrayals of the middle aged are in places laughable Mark, I ve got to tell you people over fifty don t think the world belongs to the young They don t think they re obsolete It s young people who think that about their elders Youngsters are often not always better at the very latest technology, but that s their only advantage Well, that, and the good health they take for granted [...]

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  14. Having readCurious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, I expected my sopho foray into Haddon s style of novel writing to be a bit of a departure If you don t know already the book was written from the point of view of a boy with Asperger s Syndrome a functional form of Autism and delivered with a fair amount of empathy that warmed the reader to an otherwise antisocial and charmless character.However, I felt that even from an omniscient point of view, Haddon hardly piqued my personal interest [...]

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  15. It s official, Mark Haddon and I just don t mesh He s not for me But to be fair, I won t rate this because it is really just me Others seem to be drawn to his writing, but I just am not a fan.

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  16. It s like rain in your wedding dayIt s a free ride when you ve already paidIt s a good advice that you just didn t takeand who would ve thought figuresIronic by Alanis MorisetteGeorge Hall menjalani hidupnya tanpa neko neko Menikah, punya anak, punya rumah dan pekerjaan yang bagus, pokoknya segala hal yang sepatutnya dimiliki lelaki baik baik Namun memasuki masa pensiun, tiba tiba berbagai masalah menjungkirbalikkan hidupnya yang sempurna Putrinya Katie akan melangsungkan pernikahan kedua dengan [...]

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  17. Dear Budding Indie Film maker,I know how tempted you are to turn this quirky little book into a quirky little movie You ve mentally cast James Cromwell as the family patriarch who s sure the excema on his leg is actually cancer You know just how the camera will close in on the faces of the actors as they make realizations that will change their life.And you re really looking forward to filming some of the genuinely sweet and funny scenes, knowing the audience will roar with laughter while wiping [...]

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  18. Disappointing after beautifully sad and engaging The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Could not relate to the characters Too many loose and shallow threads leading nowhere in particular Or maybe just not my kind of book Expectations too high because I loved the Curious Incident A book for lazy summer days, but not for the rest of the year when work, family and social obligations turn every hour in the reading chair into rare golden time On the other hand, there are so many books out [...]

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  19. Firstly, I d like to point out I have NOT read The Curious Incident but given the hype surrounding the author I was expecting big things.To be honest, if this was his first book we probably wouldn t know who Mark Haddon is I am not sure it would even get published It doesn t mean it s a completely bad book it will keep you hooked during that morning tube ride, but it doesn t stand out Considering the profoundness of the characters epiphanies you could think the author is ten years old The style [...]

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  20. After Curios Dog, I was eager to read another book by the same author I couldn t identify with the characters at all I found myself wanting to shake some sense into them I know characters shouldn t be perfect, but come on I made myself finish it While it does delve into the thought process of someone with acute anxiety and fear and irrational thought that was a bit interesting , the rest I just couldn t stand.

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  21. Like most everyone else, I read this after reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time which I loved It s not that I expected this to be anything like that, but I wanted to see how this would compare With the former story, most of it is written through the thoughts of Christopher, a young teen with autism A Spot of Bother is a journey through the days of a somewhat typically dysfunctional family, with the father George going through an emotional crisis which leads his thoughts int [...]

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  22. This book is an excellent read, the witty one liners and dry humour interwoven makes for a very funny read at times What s clever is that it s also poignant, heartfelt and sad at the same time, very clever writing Highly recommended if you need something on the lighter side in between other books I loved the characters, especially George whom I now want to adopt as my Grandad.

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  23. What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and complicated as you got older All families are crazy one way or the other The Halls are a bit colorful and the author makes sure they bring out all their colors Welcome to the wedding of Katie Hall and Ray As the nearly runaway groom Ray says Weddings are about families and the family is the entire cake The world of George Hall, the father, turns upside down when he discovers a lesion on his [...]

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  24. First for me there was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time I still remember how I cried at the end, wept buckets, loved it Then there was the book of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea Great title What was inside did little for me And now, remaindered, hard back, handsome, A Spot of Bother.Expectations were lowered after the damp squib poetry Perhaps that was good because very quickly this novel started to delight me It s all relationships, all [...]

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  25. A big read but very easy to read so i lapped it upLoved George and his health worries raised by his depression and wife s infidelity Did not like his selfish wife at all and wanted to slap her

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  26. Talking was, in George s opinion, overrated You could not turn the television on these days without seeing someone discussing their adoption or explaining why they had stabbed their husband Not that he was averse to talking Talking was one of life s pleasures And everyone needed to sound off now and then over a pint of Ruddles about colleagues who did not shower frequently enough, or teenage sons who had returned home drunk in the small hours and thrown up in the dog s basket But it did not chan [...]

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  27. Okay, here s how this breaks down Book about a real life serial killerTrin I think I ll read this my first night in a strange, new apartment, in an unfamiliar neighborhood, when I m all alone, and almost all the lights are off La la la Book featuring one plot thread about a man s slow descent into madness, including a scene of botched self surgeryTrin hides under the bed whimpers Yeah I found this novel very hard to get through which, if anything, should I suppose be a compliment to Haddon As he [...]

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  28. I went back to compare some of my older 3 star reviews and decided to drop this one down 1 star based on that It wasn t good It wasn t bad It was just shrugs.h.George reminded me of Harold Fry in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry , a character with whom I could not connect at all Feeble, weak and unresponsive to surroundings had a bit balls though.Apparently books about retired old men are really not my thing Mark Haddon does deserve some credit as his book was easy to read and did seem all [...]

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  29. I suspect this novel was whipped up to fulfill the second book of the author s deal with the publisher and given the phenomenal success of the author s first book, the publisher went ahead with it A Spot Of Bother lacks any of the precision and warmth and surprise of A Curious Chapters read like outlines jotted down in a notebook Hypochondriac dad check Philandering mother check Bitch sister check Gay brother check The book only comes alive briefly, and then slips back into anonymity when George [...]

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  30. Who doesn t love a story about a retired husband and father slowly but surely losing his mind Part hypochondriac, Part neuroses, sprinkle in some anxiety and panic attacks, and a vision of something that no man should ever have to witness first hand and it s fun for the whole family.Speaking of family, this ones got LOADS of issues All the better to make you appreciate what you have.Cleverly written, it had me turning pages like a maniac I was dying to find out what was going to happen next Alth [...]

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