A man walks into a bank - Lucky Stevens
A Man Walks into a Bank by Lucky Stevens is the story of one
professional bank robber, a nervous young hostage and their love story, including
many broken dishes and Darth Vader moments. Ellis Coldwater is very laid back
and is also known as Number three. Wendy Larkin is the very nervous wife of the
bank manager/owner that Ellis's gang is robbing. George is just trying
to get rid of his wife. Wendy teams up with an even more nervous friend and
takes Ellis on the most interesting adventure. Robbing a bank will never be the
same.
Lucky Stevens makes many promises in the blurb of A Man
Walks into a Bank, and he surely delivers. The book could easily have been
named Two robberies and a Medical degree. Ellis and Wendy make the most
interesting characters, supported by the wit and snappy dialogue. You never
know where the story is headed, but you get to the final destination with
surprise and a tummy ache from all the laughing.
In A Man Walks into a Bank, Lucky Stevens gives us just what
he promised, it is entertaining, annotated for your pleasure and definitely
humorous. The story itself is straightforward, although it makes many twists
and turns that throw you off your ideas. There are, as promised,
many annotations to clarify that which you should have known and many, many
run-on lines that do make sense in the end. Stevens does well to mention when
you are reading the longest sentence in the book/chapter and carefully
describing the exact emotions and reactions that the reader needs to be aware of.
In other words, the book is very entertaining and funny. I would really
recommend it if you are a fan of P.G Wodehouse, even Jerome K. Jerome and their
style of matter of fact comedy. It has been a while since I had to put down a
book because I was laughing so much I had to take a breath. Well done.
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