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 enlarge | Author: Dan Rhodes
Publisher: Canongate Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 258371
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1841959537
EAN: 9781841959535
ASIN: 1841959537
Publication Date: March 29, 2007
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 Laugh Out Loud July 29, 2008
Lincs Reader (Lincolnshire, England)
Anyone who is attracted by the words; quirky, unusual, funny, sad and unputdownable will love this little book. A short read at just under 200 pages but I laughed out loud so many times. When tall Mr Hughes leaves the toilet with his flies undone, when the landlord decides he will make more money by being rude to his customers - I was wiping away the tears.
Each character in the story is portrayed so well, you feel such a bond to them all, and care when something happens to them - the 'feel' of a rather uninteresting, nondescript town in Pembrokeshire is so well done - there is nothing there to draw the tourist, but you will want to visit.
This is not a fast-moving plot driven book, but a story of characters and such well drawn characters too.
The story ends quite abruptly, with some sadness but I've been thinking of it still many days later. I'm definitely going to read more by Dan Rhodes
Short but packing a punch April 28, 2008
SJSmith (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This started okay for me and I didn't expect to give it more than 3 stars to be honest. However, the second half of the book was much improved and we got to know the characters a bit more. Every year, for two weeks, Miyuki leaves her lover Grindl at home and visits the same seaside village. The locals know who she is but nothing about her. This year she decides to do something different which starts a chain of events that seem to change Miyuki.
An ambiguous ending (or so I thought) leaves you to wonder a lot. This really works in this case. The characters are so stereotypical of a local pub, it's fabulous. The novel is driven by the characters rather than the plot and I can why it was a little slow to begin with as they need to be drawn out for the reader to understand. A good short novel. One worth reading but not necessarily one that would make me seek out his other work.
Gold - Genius April 25, 2008
Donna Mcmanus (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book and the all the characters in it. It is simply written, in the usual style of Dan Rhodes but beautifully so. I especially loved the character of Mr Puw who calls every woman he meets 'Thunderthighs' if she is fat or thin!
It's a feel good book about the simple things in life. If you liked this I would recommend that you read all the other Dan Rhodes books, especially Anthropology and Don't Tell Me The Truth About Love. If you like these then you may also like Magnus Mills.
Gently humorous, sharply sad. April 10, 2008
Annabel Gaskell (Nr Oxford, UK)
A gentlly humorous novel about Miyuki and her annual trip to the same Welsh seaside village out of season, where she walks, reads, and drinks beer for a fortnight before going home refreshed to her lover.
Out of season the village is sleepy and night after night the same small group of people frequent the pub - Short Mr Hughes, Tall Mr Hughes, Mr Puw and Septic Barry among them. Miyuki who's been going back for quite a few years, easily slips into place - until she feels herself compelled to do something that pushes else everyone into action.
The characters are all strongly drawn, and with that touch as in "The last of the summer wine", you can't dislike any of them with all their little obsessions and peccadilloes. As Miyuki's fortnight holiday goes on, we gradually find out more about her and them and grow to love them all which makes the twist at the end all the more of a surprise.
Highly recommended.
 All that glitters ... February 28, 2008
Welsh Girl (Wales)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While Gold is a pleasant enough and undemanding way of passing a few hours, it hardly lives up to the extravagant praise on the cover. It's mildly amusing rather than hilarious, with a main character whose female voice isn't entirely convincing. Definitely no laugh-out-loud moments for me: read it on a train without any danger of public embarrassment.
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