The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared.

Well, sometimes we read a dud book. I really wouldn't recommend The Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.

It's apparently a "literary sensation". It's got rave reviews from all over Europe. And it's completely boring.

There's a present day "caper" in which our hero takes off, gets mixed up with crooks, and charming characters before it all works out.

Intersperesed with that is a tedious Forrest Gump-alike back story. It turns out that our hero met Churchill, Stalin, Mao, and a bunch of other big politicos (but not Hitler for some reason). His charm, implacability and unfeasible explosve skills gets him through, but so what?