The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man

A Novel

De: Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles - translator

Narrado por: Peter Kenny

What's next for Allan Karlsson? Turns out this centenarian has a few more adventures in store....

It all begins with a hot-air-balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined the captain of the ship would be harboring a suitcase full of contraband uranium on a nuclear-weapons mission for Kim Jong-un. Yikes!

Soon Allan and Julius are at the center of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Needless to say, things are about to get very, very complicated.

Another hilarious, witty, and entertaining novel from best-selling author Jonas Jonasson that will have listeners howling out loud at the escapades and misfortunes of its beloved 100-year-old hero Allan Karlsson and his irresistible sidekick, Julius.

©2018 Jonas Jonasson; translation 2018 Rachel Willson-Broyles (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Good, but....

This book was okay. It was not as good as the first book.

One note: Peter Kenny really needs work on his Asian accents. They were uncomfortable.

Entertaining, but narration is really bad

Not as good as the first one, but worth the listen if you can put up with the narrator's fast delivery and attempt at voices and accents. He tries to use stereotypical accents/inflections for an old man or an Asian or whatever and just makes it very difficult to understand what is being said.

Good but not great

I really enjoyed book one, and this one has a similar feel, but it just wasn't as surprising. I was a little more annoyed by the central character in places and found his antics less possible, if that makes sense. I also preferred the first reader for their dry rendition of the honor. While this reader did great voices, it kind of disrupted that dry wit of the first book. As an American, I DID appreciate the imbecilic portrayal of Donald Trump... he is exactly that. Overall this was fine; it just didn't hold my attention like the first one.

Cracking good story. Exceedingly bad narrator.

You’re not here for my opinion about this story. You already know you want to read it because you loved the first one. What you’re really here for is my opinion about this listen, and I hate to tell you—it’s tragic.

A good narrator has the power to take you right out of your own mind and body. A well read audio book is the ultimate VR, letting you slip into the story along side of the characters.

This reader was perfectly adequate—if you could only overlook the execrable accents. It’s as if he goes out of his way to make that impossible. You’ll be listening along contentedly when (insert sound of phonograph needle loudly scraping across a vinyl LP) he tries out THE WORST supposedly Korean (or Indonesian, or German, or American, or ANY) accent you have ever heard, knocking you right out of the story.

And that’s assuming you could get past the weird, wheezy, supposedly 101 year old voice of the protagonist (I tried). Could he not have listened to any part of the first audio book and attempted to continue Alan’s established voice?

This could have been so good. I am so sad.

A bit underwhelming after listening to the prequel

Overall it was a good storyline based on recent events and hopefully entertaining regardless of your political views. The narrator however was difficult to listen to at times, especially with the Korean imitations. Alan, the main character was also given an old man’s voice which was a stark difference from the previous book and by timeline, only a year earlier. Alan was harder to listen to and had far fewer lines and there was far less witty banter which was amazing in the first book.

Please don't do accents again!

Not as good as the first book but interesting enough. I would still rad it again and I think the change in the main character personality was intriguing. That change, however, takes away from the charm.
The narrator accents where hard to understand sometimes, particularly the Korean accent. I had to rewind several times to understand at some points.

Fun, smart, well narrated

Hard to criticize. Just plain entertaining and intelligently witty. I will look for more books by this author.

So much wit and character development!

I love the predecessor and this book! Wonderful writing style! I’ll have to read more by this author

Crazy Swedish Centenarian - Part 2

Incredibly far fetched fairytale of wonder, travel, world leaders & asparagus. The web is tangled hither & yon with a years worth of humor. Not quite as engrossing at Part 1 but maybe the uniqueness wore off a little. All in all a delightful read. I’m hoping there is a Part 3!

not what I had hoped.

I had truly hoped for a continuation of the 1st book. The characters and plot were just not as lol funny and convoluted as the first book. As the author said in the opening comments, he wasn't planning on a sequel. It certainly felt forced.