Meeting Mungo Thunk

By: Keith A. Pearson

Narrated by: Stewart Crank

Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

A laugh-out-loud tale of love, life lessons and an odd little man named Mungo Thunk.

Bathroom scales were not an appropriate gift for his fiancée’s birthday...apparently.

Ever since he ate seven pickled gherkins for lunch at school and subsequently shat himself during a maths lesson, Adam Maxwell has been cursed by a lack of common sense.

Now in his early 30s, that lack of common sense is about to throw Adam’s life into turmoil after one particularly ill-judged decision backfires...with disastrous consequences.

As Adam begins a rapid descent towards rock bottom, a strange little man by the name of Mungo Thunk enters his life. However, not everything about Mungo Thunk is as it first seems. After insisting Adam can rediscover his common sense by agreeing to an unorthodox brand of therapy, the two set about dealing with a raft of challenges.

Can Adam trust the mysterious stranger to fix his thinking and get his life back on track? Or, will he come to rue the day he invited Mungo Thunk into his life?

©2018 Keith A. Pearson (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

Not really my kind of story but I did finish...

because well at 30% Mungo showed up and brought some life to this dull story.

So I saw many 5 stars reviews of this on GR but I didn't read any of the reviews because I didn't want them to influence my expectation. I went into this book blind. And well i'm glad I did because I would have been disappointed against those blazing 5 stars. At least without knowing anything, I can say i'm judging this book entirely on my own journey into it.

The story as it stands is nothing special. It's the typical grow-up lazy irresponsible son you now have a child lesson, with an ending twist. I almost didn't finish because I found the MC so uninteresting. The daily life of a guy in his thirties who just can't figure himself out. I get the whole giving the ol' little self-discovery trope a new twist but it wasn't delivered in a way that grabbed my attention. In fact, listening to the audio gave me the leisure of just zoning out when I became too busy with my task at hands. Only to return my attention to it and realize, 'Yep, this MC guy still gets on my nerve'. There's a story in here that I might have enjoyed had this author not made it so mundane. I almost gave up if not for the Mungo character, who I enjoyed, and the mystery of how he came to be. I think that the little revealing children story way at the end was far more interesting than the entire book.

I won't keep this book since I see no point in shelving something I won't read twice but it's too early for me to toss this author out since i'm new to him. This is clearly just a case of 'It's me, it's not the book'. I'll try his other books and see where it goes.

As for the narrator, he did an excellent job. His narration was easy on the ears, easy to follow and enjoy.