I've mentioned on here that there are two books that I have found hysterical. The Timewaster Letters and The Return of the Timewaster Letters literally brought tears to my eyes with their content. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the third book in the trilogy.
The series of books are written by 'Robin Cooper' the alias of writer, Robert Popper. The first two books centred on communication between Cooper and numerous businesses as he made comical interaction with them. The responders, unknown that they were being duped by an imaginary letter writer, made the idea hysterical.
And delivered.
The third book in the series goes in a different direction.
And fails.
The Timewaster Diaries offers its reader 'a year in the life of Robin Cooper' as the character writes a daily record of what he does.
I'm one quarter of the way through it and am finding it hard to carry on for one simple reason -it's rubbish.
The author tries too hard at humour. There are things in this book that I find totally unfunny and desperate. It's as if Robert Popper has flung countless balls of mud to a wall in the hope that something sticks.
Unfortunately, the wall ends up clean.
I'm aware that it is unfair to walk away from a book without reading the entire thing but - when you consider I have read the first two in the series - I have enough of an opinion to announce that this is a major letdown.
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