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Whatever Makes You Happy | 
 enlarge | Author: William Sutcliffe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Category: Book
Buy New: £7.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0747596522
EAN: 9780747596523
ASIN: 0747596522
Publication Date: May 4, 2009 (In 163 Days)
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Availability: Not yet published
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 Funny in places... June 24, 2008
Ms. J. M. Power (Twickenham, UK)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I read this because it had been well reviewed and I had enjoyed Are You Experienced? It's a quick easy read, with some entertaining lines and scenes, but it's somehow not as satisfying as the earlier book. Most of the characters are stereotypical, there aren't many surprises or plot twists and it seems to me to be fairly forgettable.
My main comment, I think, is that someone should mention to the editorial team at Bloomsbury that 'bored of' is incorrect, it should be 'bored by' or 'bored with'. I'm surprised they don't already know this. It's what I remember most about this book!
 enchanting summer comedy May 8, 2008
A. Craig (London United Kingdom)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
There are so many bad comic novels out on the shelves that a really good one deserves flagging up. This has the simplest of ideas - three unmarried men in their thirties have mothers who are all friends. Discussing their sons, and agreeing that something has gone wrong with their lives, they descend for one week to sort them out.
One son works on a lad mag called BALLS, obsessed with women's breasts and designer gadgets, and is living the life of an urban bachelor. His horrified mother discovers not just dust but kinky S&M gear under his bed, and not only sets about to cleaning the shag-pad but crashes a launch party of a new aftershave and tries to set him up with a nice girl instead of a teenager....Another son hasn't yet come out to his mum, and lives in a gay commune where he is outed within minutes....The third has moved to Edinburgh to try and get over Erin, the love of his life whom he lost by not wanting children. Yet the mothers all have some growing up of thier own to do, and it's in depicting them with sympathy and warmth that Sutcliffe's novel rises above the hilarity of his early work. He seems to understand much more than the preoccupations of his generation, and in consequence women in their fifties and sixties will I think get as many laughs and sighs of recognition as those of us with young sons.
I began reading this in a foul mood, with rain lashing down etc etc and by the first chapter it felt as if the sun had come out. Although it's mostly dialogue, the passages of descriptive writing are excellent, and the ending perfectly judged. It would make a lovely film.
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