Jonas Jonasson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - For Fans

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The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, written by Jonas Jonasson, follows the travels of Allan Karlsson. Allan Karlsson currently resides in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, Karlsson decides that the nursing home is not the last place he wants to see before he dies. Therefore, he climbs out of his bedroom window at the nursing home and heads towards the bus stop. There, he meets a young man also waiting for the bus. This young man asks Karlsson to watch his suitcase while he runs to the restroom. While gone, the bus arrives, leaving Karlsson with the suitcase, alone. Karlsson boards the bus, suitcase in hand, and the adventure begins. Jonasson, at 47 years old, writes his first novel of a 100-year-old man being chased by gangsters and the police, while fleeing with a suitcase full of cash.

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Genres: Fiction, Book Club, Humor, Unfinished, Novels, Mystery, Comedy

74 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2015

Reviews

[Jamie Jensen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book!! What an adorable well told story. Very Forest Gump style. If you want an easy, funny, uplifting read this is your book. Don’t believe the bad reviews. Sometimes we need a light hearted story to escape and this is that book!

[Kkraemer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is just plain fun. There are two stories, one of which happens (more or less) in the present, and the other of which is the main character's past life. The characters include Mao Tse-Tung, an elephant, an old man, lots of young men, Albert Einstein's brother Herbert, General Franco and a cat named Molotov, among others. Thugs are involved. So is vodka.

This is a sort of Inspector Clouseau meets Zelig sort of book, full of rather madcap occurrences and fabulously funny scenes. 20th Century history has never been so interesting.

[Claudia]

I gave up on this book halfway through it.

[Henrietta Cottingham · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book along with Water for Elephants makes me want to call all my friends over 80 and tell them to read it. It is an ode to one long, peace seeking life that continues through time by making and keeping friends. I thought it was droll, a clever history primer and filled with wonderful characters. It made me think of the children's book 7 Chinese Brothers with the shared sense of someone having more than one life.

[Mary K. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This romp through tons of decades and countries was translated from Swedish, and is fascinating, compelling, and often laugh-out-loud funny. The most interesting and ridiculous bunch of people you'll encounter in a long, long time! Just a lovely, fun read.

[Dana Slaughter · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such an inane story, but I absolutely loved it. Allan has an "unstoppable ability to look on the bright side" and simply stops listening if people talk politics, AND he lives to be over 100 years old! He is however, definitely not a saint but instead, he's a wily character whose moral compass goes in any direction that seems to serve. It all comes together at the end. My husband kept asking what I was laughing about - but you just have to read it.

[Samantha · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Forrest Gump wanna-be. I didn’t care about the main character at all, in fact he was a bit of a no-life. There wasn’t much of a plot, and while some parts were funny, it was really hard to get through.

[Judy Knudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Humorous, entertaining, outrageous at times, but the historical aspects are actually true!

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an incredible and involved story with laugh out loud moments! Allan is the centenarian of the title. When he climbs out the window of his nursing home, he begins a madcap adventure involving flashbacks to other times in his life. It turns out that Allan has a brain for bombs and weaponry. Due to that, he has been pulled into all sorts of destructive situations. He is likable and helpful but has an aversion to politics. He is recruited for help with one political agenda or another and, bizarrely, does not take politics into account. Although a comedy, I just wonder how much of the world's politics actually work this way. That is, with people just bumbling through. I also wonder what Allan would be like operating in 2017!
Reviews compare Allan to Forrest Gump and that is a fair assessment. I thought the writing was much like that of John Irving. (This book was translated from Swedish by Rod Bradbury.) This book reminded me of "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen on two counts. This book has a starring elephant named Sonya AND there is an older man running away from a nursing home!

[Bill · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a bizarre book. The story was basically Swedish Forest Gump. It follows the current day exploits of a 100 year old man who does exactly what the title says, and gets into trouble with a gang of petty criminals. The book also flashes back to things he had done throughout his 100 year old life, and surprise he ended up changing the course of history throughout the 20th century and meeting lots of very famous people accidentally.

The flashbacks were fine and although unbelievable were a fun way of walking through history, but I found the current day story rather poorly done. The book was fine to read, but not something I'd suggest to anyone.

[Marissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was more like a 2.5 read for me. It started off super strong and I was loving it. Then about half way through, I got bored. The stories from the main character's past started to get longer and longer, and for me, more confusing. I was way more interested in the present, but those chapters were so much shorter, which was a bummer.

I liked the characters and the situations they found themselves in, although almost all of the completely unbelievable, of course. It just got too slow and confounded for me to enjoy it the entire way through.

[Te · Rating 5 out of 5]

So enjoyed this book and I think was enhanced being an audiobook with good narrator

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun, easy read. There are some clever, humorous stories, most of which feel like you've read them somewhere else before. The back story is longer than I would have preferred, but I do think most of it was necessary to the story. It was frustrating at times to only spend a small chapter in the present story, only to be sent back again to the lead character's past for a long chapter. That said, the characters were thoroughly enjoyable & I would recommend it to anyone looking for something light & fun with some good, dry wit.

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

On a scale of cotton candy to Brussels sprouts, this book is mixed pierogis--similar to the Italian ravioli, a delicious something filled with more deliciousness. But throw a bunch of different kinds together, each pierogi will be a surprise.

With a title like that, I caught the hint that this book was no normal pasta. But the contents delighted me with the twisted weave of the story. How does someone come up with this kind of ridiculousness?

[Marcus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jonas Jansson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared is a delightful romp around the the globe. This novel approach to story telling is a bird's eye view of the twenty century that makes Cliff Notes turn green with envy. Check it out...not the twenty century, but the Jonasson's novel.

[Stefani Meyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's kind of like a Forrest Gump story. The story of this 100 year old man, who, because of his "let's just go along with this and see what happens" attitude, gets himself into all kinds of predicaments and into many a scenario of world history. Sometimes I felt like it dragged a little bit, but overall I like it and I learned a few things about history while I was at it.

[Cinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a goofy book--just plain fun and funny. A 100 year old man with an implausible past goes on an adventure when he sneaks out of his own birthday party and sets off a series of mishaps that all somehow end up working out.

[Blaine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quirky and funny. You will meet some oddball characters who fall into some strange situations. A light weekend read.

[Carla H.]

This novel is fun, entertaining, and up-lifting. I look forward to reading more from Jonasson!

[Robin Frankel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Silly, hilarious, charming.

[Dimitrios Lititaris · Rating 3 out of 5]

For me is fantasy but with semi-real historical references, not any substantial depth of characters, the plot is fable-oriented with lots of historically reasonable but hard to accept as real actions, which didn't result in realizations, liked the time jumps, I could use it as a Saturday pizza afternoon background.

[Thang Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rất hay, cách kể có duyên, rất hợp với kiểu thỉnh thoảng lôi ra đọc mà ko bị lạc nhịp. Mà kể rất vui, dù câu chuyện có vẻ là không vui cho lắm (nhiều nạn nhân téo tèo tèo ra phết). tôi thực sự thích sự lạc quan toát ra từ câu chuyện,

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can’t disagree with any of the reviewers who compared this convoluted story to Forrest Gump. When it comes to Allen Karlsson, life really is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.

[Jeannie Game · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clever and entertaining, with a surprisingly upbeat feel, despite many violent deaths, including not-entirely-oblique references to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Allan is a very old, completely likable sociopath, IMHO!

[John Updike]

Charming story. A bit of historical fiction blending with an absurd romp through modern Sweden. It's a bit of a stretch for a man that age to function as he did, but the flashbacks are well worth it.

[Silvia Carrion Rodriguez]

Like the mix between fantasy and real history facts and characters in the book.

[Greg Robinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

a semi-plausible tale with a modicum of social comment; airport reading

[Aisling Cronin · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazing book.

[Jeree · Rating 1 out of 5]

I just couldn’t ever get attached to the characters. I gave up about 33% in.

[Aitortxu · Rating 4 out of 5]

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