Charlotte Street
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"Jason Priestley (no, not that Jason Priestley) is in a rut. He gave up his teaching job to write snarky reviews of cheap restaurants for the free newspaper you take but don't read. He lives above a video-game store, between a Polish newsstand and that place that everyone thinks is a brothel but isn't. His most recent Facebook status is 'Jason Priestley is...eating soup.' Jason's beginning to think he needs a change. So he uncharacteristically moves to help a girl on the street who's struggling with an armload of packages, and she smiles an incredible smile at him before her cab pulls away. What for a fleeting moment felt like a beginning is cruelly cut short--until Jason realizes that he's been left holding a disposable camera. And suddenly, with prodding and an almost certainly disastrous offer of assistance from his socially inept best friend Dev, a coincidence-based, half-joking idea--What if he could track this girl down based on the photos in her camera?--morphs into a full-fledged quest to find the woman of Jason's dreams."--from cover, p. [4]
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Let me start by saying that I am a massive fan of Danny Wallace's writing. I have read two of his other books (yes man, friends like these, and I find the prose funny and well observed.
This is his first novel, and I did enjoy it. There were some laugh out loud moments that caused me to share my skinny latte with my fellow Southern Railwayites. But as has been mentioned by other reviewers, the protagonist does annoy after a bit, and the plot goes a little wayward in the middle.
An enjoyable comedy about London, and Londoners, but not as good as the non fiction.
Cute, very High fidelity like, with a bit of a loser as the main character who pursues a girl he met accidentally (through a forgotten disposable camera and its photos) throughout the story. I did read out loud occasionally, and Jason (the aforementioned loser) growns on you, even if it's not going to become one of my fave books ever.
I really wanted to like this book. The premises was cute, the writing was good, but the story was just too long. It would have made a great short story and a nice light rom-com movie. You could honestly read the first couple of chapters and the last couple and get the idea.