Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

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I’m not religious at all and firmly believe religion does more harm than good but I’m extremely bored with people pointing and laughing at Christianity.

But these are people who don’t feel they have many positive options for pulling themselves out of the mire. Maybe some of the hilariousness was lost in translation and different nationalities often have different senses of humour. Quirky and fun, it’s very much about the characters and how they react to each other rather than the plot that lagged at times. Nothing outright irritated me, nor did it feel like I was reading a bad book, but it wasn't really the book for me. On the way they donate thousands to the needy, holding back enough for themselves and embarking on a trip where they need to avoid running into criminals who had unwittingly funded their operation.He takes a room at the Sea Point Hotel where the receptionist, Per Persson avoids contact with the world, which has not treated him too well so far. Their constant scamming and Robin Hood-esque redistributions of wealth, may appear at first glance admirable, but their singular motivation always seems to be their own financial gain, leaving the reader pretty much disliking everyone in the whole book. Incorrectly billed as a comedy by a desperate PR department, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is a dreary crime caper that thinks it’s clever by making the highly original observations that, 1) Christianity is a bit of a silly religion and 2) tabloid newspapers are trash. Jonas Jonasson làm mình nhớ tới giọng văn Hồ Anh Thái, cũng kiểu châm biếm vui đùa nhưng sâu xa và đầy ẩn ý.

After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life. De la numele personajelor, alese in asa fel incat sa aduca zâmbetul pe buze, până la acțiunile lor ieșite din comun la fel de amuzante si absurde. It’s easy and it’s been done people, move on or else have something original to say about it, which Jonasson doesn’t.It's main characters are a hitman who enjoys breaking legs and various other limbs for money, until he starts reading the Bible; a woman priest sacked from her job who doesn't believe in God but has a brilliant brain for business, and a male receptionist at the hotel where the hitman is staying after release from prison for the nth time. One minute it’s fine for Anders to go around breaking people’s arms and legs then suddenly, when the story needs that to change, it’s not.

Even so it works on the same principle, a certain kind of "unusual" heroes, and a wildly improbable plot.Instead of laughing out loud, my eyebrows worked overtime as I became more and more annoyed by the plot and characters. When Hitman Anders turns to religion, the lucrative business is in danger, and the vicar and the receptionist have to find a new plan, quick. The three join forces and concoct an unusual business plan based on Hitman Anders’ skills and his fearsome reputation. When Anders gets Christianity, he says “Hosanna” a lot without knowing what it means – that’s the “comedy” by the way.

In povestea asta, personajele principale sunt un recepționer al unui hotel, o fostă preoteasa si un asasin ce il descoperă pe Dumnezeu. I was expecting a farce and so didn’t have any issues with the ludicrousness of events, but I can imagine some readers may find the continued and escalating daftness annoying. I, on the other hand, liked how it played with twentieth century history, and the present-day section contained some decent laughs.But towards the end of the novel, Anders finally gets put away when he assaults a guy from the government – I guess that’s the line in the sand? Featuring one violent killer, two shrewd business brains and many crates of Moldovan red wine, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is an outrageously zany story with as many laughs as Jonasson’s multimillion-copy bestseller T he Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Si aceasta, la fel ca si celalalte, este scrisa intr-un mod absolut delicios, tratând niste subiecte "fierbinti" ale societății de astăzi, printr-un sarcasm fin, ce frizează realitatea. He had inherited his moral compass from his father, the drunkard (who had abandoned his son for a bottle of cognac when the boy was two years old), and from his grandfather, the horse dealer, a man who had dosed his foals with precise amounts of arsenic from birth onwards so that they would grow used to the poison and be in tip-top shape not only on the day of sale but, in slowly declining degrees, on the days, weeks and months after that.