Book about a book.
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This book is a very witty read. It's about Miranda, who is looking for romance, and who discovers a dusty book hidden away on the back of a shelf in the library. Miranda steals the book because the librarian won't let her take any more books out and she is overdue. She is desperate to read it because it contains the secret to finding love. This book turns out to be wanted by the Secret Service as they thought they'd destroyed all exisiting copies. They think it contains a conspiracy theory that they want hushed up. Miranda has a whole range of crazy adventures as the Secret Service try to take the book from her. It all makes for some hilarious reading. Does she get her man in the end? That would be telling! Oh, to add to the quirkiness of this book, the story is actually being told by the book itself! What a novel idea.
This is what I imagine the result would be if you mixed Bridget Jones with Thursday Next (Jasper Fforde).
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Brill-iant!
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Did you ever feel inadequate because you couldn't get past Page 1 of Ulysses by James Joyce? Fear not - Making Love has all the same fantastic use and abuse of the English language while being eminently readable! Brill manages to insert some type of humour in every line, whether it is irony, wit, punning or pure slapstick. His command of the English language is extraordinary and his ability to manipulate it astounding. An amazing-ly enjoyable book!
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Romantic Trash
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I bought this booking thinking that it was a little different - along the lines of Jasper Fforde - full of wit and romance. This is one disillusuioned reader I can tell you. The writing style is pedantic and flat.It makes women look as if they are simpering tearful fools whose entire goal in life is to find Mr Perfect and therefore be Happy.The men are portrayed just as bad - as either Heroes, Beasts or Idiots. The wit is toilet bowl humor and the romance is dead. Give this one a miss.
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Modern, intelligent and funny, funny funny!
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It took a few chapters to start to cook, but the sardonic wit of the book soon had me hooked. Miranda starts hapless and ends savvy and no longer single. Chortle as the crazy cast of London characters cavorts across Europe to reach a bombastic finale. Unique, thoroughly modern and very, very funny.
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witty, unique and refreshing - a novel romance
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Romance addict Miranda Brown steals a seemingly innocuous old book called "Making Love" from the library, sparking off an immensely enjoyable farce featuring mysterious secret service agents and a host of entertaining eccentrics.
This is an immensely enjoyable and witty book, and it was a pleasure to read an author who gets such an obvious enjoyment out of playing with language and preconceived notions of the novel.
It is bizarre and touching. A pastiche and a tribute, archly satirical but also self-mocking, fantastically funny while at times also managing true poignancy and resonance.
This is one you will find yourself enthusiastically recommending to friends before you even reach pg 5.
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