Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

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I read The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared a few years ago - in Spanish I might add. I started with The 100 Year Old Man, followed by Hitman Anders and finished with The Girl who Saved The King of Sweden. Allan Karlsson’s unworldliness meant he could get away with sometimes doing the wrong thing and still be likeable. I, on the other hand, liked how it played with twentieth century history, and the present-day section contained some decent laughs.

They even learn to be more environmentally friendly, as well as more frugal and less grasping without practical justification. I think the aim is supposed to be black humour, but black humour only really works if you feel something for its subjects.Together they cook up an idea for an enterprising venture involving Swedish gangsters that is set to make them all a fortune--until, all of a sudden and to everyone's surprise, Anders finds Jesus. 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.

This episode is at least mitigated by some entertaining supporting characters who are themselves no saints. As wildly funny and unexpected as Jonasson's previous bestselling novels, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is a zany, feel-good adventure story, tenderly and hilariously exploring belief, redemption, and the fact that it's never too late to start again. I felt no connection whatsoever for the characters and the only reason I was able to finish this book is because I skim-read the last 40% of the book.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? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

After a long career as a journalist, media consultant and television producer, Jonas Jonasson decided to start a new life.

He became a media consultant and later set up a company producing sports and events for Swedish television, before selling his company and moving abroad to work on his first novel. Later on, Hitman Anders, the receptionist and the priest are on the run from a group of mobsters they’ve swindled out of millions of kroner. Seriously, the plot just doesn't make any sense and the religious elements really started to get on my nerves.

I was surprised to see it set out so boldly at the end, but this always felt like a novel which had had problems and editorial salvage attempts. If only children could be free of all that crap previous generations had gathered up for them, he said, perhaps it would bring some clarity to their lives. 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. There’s a switch-around for Part Two, in which Hitman Anders becomes more sympathetic, and Per less so. I had bigger expectations reading the summary in the back cover and even though it had its good moments in the whole I didn't find it satisfactory!

So instead of fleeing the country and hiding, they decide to set up a church and begin advertising it with Hitman Anders’ well-known name – why? Maybe when Anders becomes pastor of his church Jonasson is saying organized religion is run by crooks? Hitman Anders is fresh out of prison and trying to keep his head down when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who happens to be an atheist), and a receptionist at a one star hotel (who happens to be currently homeless). When I first decided to read this book, I have to say I was quite intrigued about reading it, but by eventually completing it, I'm a little underwhelmed and very disapointed.