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

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.

So.much.fun!

Another winning book by Jonas Jonasson. Good grief! I wish Alan Carlson (sp?) and his friends were my neighbors. They bring more laughs than a barrel of monkeys :) and kudos to Peter Kenny who is a marvelous narrator!

Best Jonasson yet!

The characterizations of current world leaders are priceless. Delightful and uproariously thoughtful. Thank you Mr Author!

Hmmmm . . . errrrrr . . . .

This book is the ultimate proof that history is "his story.". I used to think that exclusively meant that it was up to the victors or survivors of historical happenings, but I now think there is so much more that can be blamed upon how the person looking at the information decides to interpret it. The Swedish author is decidedly pessimistic in his views. While I cannot argue that there is much bad in the world, I am of the mind that trying to find the good in things is a more productive and effective way of fixing the problems. I'm sure that some will say that humor, as this book is meant to come across as, can be effective too, and while I agree with that as well, I must point out that this is negative humor (if humor can ever be used to describe the majority of this book), which I do not consider very effective. I think what bothers me the most about this book is just how disrespectful everyone is. The is no real kindness anywhere. I can say however that the last statement in the book is fairly truthful.

well ...

I really enjoyed the first book. This second book was entertaining but I guess the novelty wore off to a degree. Not to say the quality has slipped, just not sure a second was wise. Allan is now 101. He has to die some time, and it would be too awful for his reader friends to have to see.

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.