Reviews

The One-Eyed Man by Ron Currie

wolfbridge's review

adventurous challenging dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

Humorous political satire with an explosive ending! You wouldn’t expect a book like this to have a deep emotional gut punch here and there, but it does. 

elnaann1313's review

5.0

Simply fantastic!

ncarter5069's review

4.0

This book was fantastic, incredibly timely with the whole fake news and media-on-trial controversy but also incredibly funny. The novel manages to balance wit and insight like not many other authors writing right now. I highly recommend this book and will be diving in to Currie's previous books with vigor.

pixe1's review

3.0

Started off hilarious but in the end it just got a little too crazy.

agreco92's review

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

lyrasbookshelf's review

challenging emotional reflective sad

3.75

tonythep's review

4.0

This might just be the black comedy (oh so black) I've been waiting for all my life! When we first meet our hero (known only as K.), he is waiting to cross the street to a coffee shop. But since the recent death of his wife he's had an epiphany having to do with Einstein's theory of relativity, and has become so literal minded that he refuses to cross the street to the coffee shop for hours because the DON'T WALK sign has not changed. A further series of absurd events conspire to make K. the host of a popular reality TV show in which he confronts people with the truth with disastrous and hilarious results. Currie is a master satirist, able to walk a tightrope of comedy over a gaping chasm of heartbreak. I can't wait to read his earlier stuff.

dessa's review

3.0

Ron Currie ran off with a Douglas Coupland plot, with medium success. Slightly disappointed that a fair number of the longer conversations weren't really conversations, but read more like the same voice talking to itself to work out philosophical or moral problems. Interesting but not necessarily gripping.

bettyvd's review

3.0

3,5 ster. Currie schrijft met humor over tragische gebeurtenissen. De plot sprak me deze keer wat minder aan. Maar wel mooi hoe luciditeit een vermomde vorm van rouw kan zijn.

lvdani's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5