Kathy Mathys As a freelance writer, I am primarily concerned with English literature. I review fict

Talking to your GPS Jonathan Coe takes the reader from Sidney to the Shetland Islands in a novel about an almost invisible man. Kathy Mathys' Onbijzonder. That should come to stand on my grave, "said Maxwell Sim, the after-sales employee

of a toy factory in Watford, England. Max has few friends or hobbies are not embracing political and emotional barometer never turn red. Pale, pitted and devoid of every drop of blood fighter: Maxwell red riding hood 2011 Sim has no character you right at the heart again. You keep a safe distance from these colorless Englishman abandoned by his wife and daughter

and already six months thuiszit with depression. And maybe that's red riding hood 2011 a good thing, because even Maxwell, who almost transparent man has bad traits. He loves directing his outpourings tightly red riding hood 2011 held, does not tell everything and he spies on his ex. In these times occurs without nocturnal pursuits and binoculars. Max takes a false identity in the chatroom who visits his ex. It's funny that most of Coe wrote this novel in Villa Hellebosch, Brussels writer residence where he last resided. It's so quiet that you imagine in the nineteenth century. red riding hood 2011 The churning world of Facebook and YouTube seems very distant. Just at this place worked Coe a picaresque novel about the world in which we live. A world in which new media set the tone. They ensure that you can expand your territory from your armchair. Coe makes his sad rascal-for-twenty-first-century staring at an empty inbox, remarks on the limited value of Facebook

friends red riding hood 2011 and crave real contact. Very original speculations that do not, but you can not expect a mortal passion as Maxwell. The characters in this story the colors turn, are co Maxwell travelers. Max has a father in Sydney and so he spends a lot of hours in and around airports. There he meets Poppy example, a girl exclusive services. At airports, she audio recordings subsequently end up on a CD. Adulterers, the broadcasting voice of a clean from Singapore to sound in the background when their official partner call them, even if they happen to be in the bed of a lover are. Coe is very good in the descriptions of reisetiquettes and alternating red riding hood 2011 despondent and exuberant atmosphere that surrounds travelers. He leaves Maxwell a car ride to the other end of the British Isles. Maxwell travels to the Shetland Islands, where he as an eco-friendly turn toothbrushes should promote. During that journey Maxwell loneliness - his GPS has become his best friend - dangerous. Coe reflects this journey to that of sailor Donald Crowhurst, a man who pretended he went around the world. He loved even false logbooks. This would be in a world where you can hardly invisible? Asks Coe himself. The way Coe draws parallels between Maxwell and Donald travel is stiff. Not all comic interludes are equally red riding hood 2011 hilarious. About the postmodern Finally, we will continue even silence. Why is this book still two stars? For the mini-stories within the larger whole. The Poppy episode is very funny. Crowhursts fate stand in a letter from Poppy's uncle to his niece - they are a wonderful short story. red riding hood 2011 At the end of each of the four chapters we slip from Maxwell's head and comes a story through another character. There is a from the standpoint of the former or Maxwell's father. These stories bring surprising twists, new discourses elmo Dussen and leave you in a different way to look at Maxwell. Some readers will find that Coe goes too far in the accumulation of surprising twists. Yet it is just these little interludes that the novel oxygen and give momentum. ** Jonathan Coe - The terrible loneliness of Maxwell Sim - translated by Otto Biersma and William Muilenburg - The Busy Bee - Amsterdam

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Kathy Mathys As a freelance writer, I am primarily concerned with English literature. I review fiction and interview authors red riding hood 2011 for The Standard, Reflector, medical weekly The Netherlands and Fri. Currently

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