This book pretty much takes you inside lead character Charlie's head, as he meanders through his life as an overweight, newly-bespectacled, music-humming Austrian student-cum-taxi-driver, who is 87% wimp.
The humour is here. Charlie reminded me of Adrian Mole in parts with some of his wry observations about life as he muses about things. However Charlie's thoughts are more adult as he spends a lot of his time fantasising about the (normally unattainable) women around him (you can see him on the cover chasing a woman). That is until he starts inadvertently killing people which does make his thoughts change to other, more important things.
The narrative is split up a bit with little "note to self" reminders that Charlie puts there if he thinks he has discovered an important tip picked up from his latest deed or thought process or lifestyle magazine. These don't get in the way of the story though. Rather they are there to add another bit of humour.
Then at the very end he has a bit of good fortune to end the book.
Overall then, if you want a book providing an amusing, introverted look at life from a young man's point-of-view then get this.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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