2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

This thread is to discuss The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, the first book in the The Hundred-Year-Old Man series by Jonas Jonasson.

Pages: 396 pages

Length: 1 month (December)

Participants: Ashleigh, Lulo, Parvin

Everyone reads at their own pace during a Buddy Read. Because participants can be at different parts of the book at different times, it is extremely important to mark spoilers so that the book is not ruined for someone who is not as far along as others!!!

Mark spoilers by placing {spoiler} before the text and {/spoiler} after the text but use the < and > instead of the { and }.

Looking forward to reading this!

Ooh. I have this. I wonder if I can get to it in December….

Thanks. Have started reading it yesterday 🙂

I am still in the first few pages of the book and liking it so far. This is the first Jonas Jonasson book that I am reading. So I don’t know what exactly to expect. But so far it has been good 🙂

I'm so happy to see this here! I enjoyed this twice. For those not familiar with this author, the J is said like Y.

Hi!
I started reading it today!

I am still in the first few chapters and thoroughly enjoying the morbid humour 🙂

I am around 150 pages in and am finding it so funny!

I really like how Allen (view spoiler)[keeps coming across all these famous historical figures and becomes close to them all. It's making me chuckle (hide spoiler)]

Hi I finally finished it yesterday. Got delayed because of some work related commitments. And this became the book I kickstarted my new year with. What a fun roller coaster ride this was!! I was grinning all throughout. Especially the morbid humour got through to me. (view spoiler)[ Alan Karlsson was endearing in his own way 🙂 someone who made tons of lemonade from all the lemons life threw at him. He killed these young goons and it made me chuckle 😂 But yes parts of the book did feel a bit dragging as the author tried to fit in the entire history of 20th century in Karlsson’s life!! (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]