Don't Point That Thing at Me

from page.fault

It's almost cheering to find a book that contains more black humour and cynicism than I can handle.Imagine Bertie Wooster's evil twin from a parallel universe. He would be bloated with self-indulgence and degeneracy, a misanthrope entirely free from any sympathy or fellow-feeling for humanity, ca...

from LARA335

Some nice turns-of-phrase, but the plot totally lost me as this buoyant but charmless alcoholic Wooster-type runs from some assailants with a ruffian of a sidekick major-domo for company.

from AHS-Wolfy

Imagine if you will a book similar to The Thirty-Nine Steps being written by P.G. Wodehouse and you'll be somewhere in the region of how this one reads. Charlie Mortdecai is an art dealer who isn't too unfamiliar with the shady side of his profession. In fact, he's just come into possession of a ...

from SharonMariaBidwell

The first of the Mortdecai novels though fun was a little slower in pace than I expected and with sidetracks and wanderings as without restraint as Mordecai himself. I've never read what someone ate or the copious amounts someone drank (made my liver wince) to such a degree in a novel. Still, thi...

from clq

I have no idea how this book made it onto my to-read list, but it did. And, as I found it to be quite enjoyable, I'm happy it did. Don't Point that Thing at Me is the first of three instalments making up the diary of Mr. Mortdecai, a dodgy art dealer. As a consequence of his dodgy art dealings he...