The Rabbit Factor - Jan 2024 Book Group discussion

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Columba 24 Jan 7:11pm, 24 Jan 2024 22,410 posts	0 Columba This did nothing for me. At least, the characters did nothing, though I was intrigued to follow the plot to the end. After I'd finished the book, I read the three pages of "praise" at the beginning, and discovered to my surprise that it was supposed to be "hilarious" and "laugh-a-minute". I don't think I smiled once. Maybe my sense of humour is dwindling, along with my hearing and night vision, as I totter on into old age. Of course, it's Not My Genre.
Columba 24 Jan 7:17pm, 24 Jan 2024 22,411 posts	0 Columba Ah, there's a follow-up? Maybe that will fill in some of the holes in the plot. Is Juhani actually dead, for example?
LindsD 24 Jan 9:51pm, 24 Jan 2024 66,315 posts	0 LindsD I didn't laugh either.
McGoohan 24 Jan 9:52pm, 24 Jan 2024 53,629 posts	0 McGoohan I'm 2/3 through. I haven't laughed out loud once. But only about two books ever have done that.
LindsD 24 Jan 10:00pm, 24 Jan 2024 66,316 posts	0 LindsD Ooh which?
McGoohan 24 Jan 10:11pm, 24 Jan 2024 53,630 posts	0 McGoohan 1) Meaning of Liff - not really a proper book, I suppose but parts of it have made me LOL 2) The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy. Funniest thing I've ever read
McGoohan 24 Jan 10:12pm, 24 Jan 2024 53,631 posts	0 McGoohan and I suppose neither of those is an actual fictional story, so I can't recall laughing at a work of fiction at all.
LindsD 24 Jan 10:19pm, 24 Jan 2024 66,318 posts	0 LindsD Agree about Meaning of Liff
LindsD 24 Jan 10:19pm, 24 Jan 2024 66,319 posts	0 LindsD Off topic but Marina Hyde in The Guardian frequently makes me LOL
McGoohan 24 Jan 11:04pm, 24 Jan 2024 53,632 posts	0 McGoohan ^True

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As chosen by Night-owl, and written by Antti Tuomainen (Author) and David Hackston (Translator), The Rabbit Factor is Jan 2024's Book Group Book of the Month Book Choice Book.

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