Tony Hawks
Autor de Round Ireland with a Fridge
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Hawks, Tony
- Nombre legal
- Hawksworth, Antony Gordon
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1960-05-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Educación
- Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School, England, UK
Brighton College, Brighton, England, UK - Ocupaciones
- comedian
songwriter
author
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 3,125
- Popularidad
- #8,179
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 88
- ISBNs
- 68
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 10
When a skiing trip goes wrong and spurred on by the knowledge that one of his friends already owns a house in the country, Hawks impulsively buys a house in the French Pyrenees. Soon enough, he has to set about moving himself and his piano to the continent.
The problem is that the idea behind the book is pretty mundane, something any one of us could probably do, finances and desire permitting. This meant that I couldn't entirely trust what I was being told, that he hadn't felt the need to add his own comic twist and exaggerate. Whilst I enjoyed parts of this book, his attempts to move the piano to France in a van immediately springs to mind, at the same time it felt forced or more accurately part of a stand up routine. I found it refreshing that he tried to integrate himself into the native community with all its cultural mix-ups rather than simply mix with fellow ex-pats.
I enjoyed Hawks writing and I read large parts of it with a smile on my face but ultimately I only found this an OK read.… (más)