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Round Ireland With a Fridge
Round Ireland With a Fridge
Author: Tony Hawks
Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse, still, have you ever tried to win one? In attempting to hitchhike round Ireland with a fridge, Tony Hawks did both, and his foolhardiness led him to one of the best experiences of his life. Joined by his trusty traveling companion-cum-domestic appliance, he made his way from Dublin to Donegal, from Sligo ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312274924
ISBN-10: 0312274920
Publication Date: 3/7/2001
Pages: 264
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4 stars, based on 53 ratings
Publisher: Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Helpful Score: 6
So, I heard about this book and I got it on paperbackswap.

Since I loved Ireland I thought I would check it out . . . this book is very, very interesting!

The main character, Tony Hawks, is a single British man who embodies all of these elements. I kinda thought he was rather snobbish at times and rather "manish" (and that is putting it nicely) at times but over all I think the book places the Irish people in a wonderful light. I mean some of the things these people were willing to do to help Tony out was just "crazy" but that's the magic of Ireland, I believe.

Anyways this book handed me one of the greatest laughs ever . . . chapter The Longest Night . . . I laughed sooooooo hard I cried. My children even asked me what was wrong. It was that funny. And I think part of the reason I can associate with Tony on this chapter is because the things that happen to him by other people is exactly something that would happen to me. It's just my luck.

Anyways, it's an easy read. It's fun. It's lighthearted and you will laugh.
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reviewed Round Ireland With a Fridge on + 2 more book reviews
Great travel memoir. Funny and at times poignant - an easy enjoyable read.
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This book reflects the quirky, friendly, half-a-bubble-off-plumb side of rural Ireland. Although some of the incidents seem a bit far-fetched, I'm inclined to believe them all.
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"The more foolish, illogical, or surreal one's actions were perceived to be (and mine surely fell into one of these categories), the wider the arms of hospitality were opened in salutation."

Tony Hawks knows how to make you laugh, even when you don't want to. I've earned my fair share of strange looks after I burst out with a chuckle at this book. In the first pages of recounting how the sordid wager to travel around Ireland with fridge in tow came about, Hawks paints a picture of the bizarre. Once revisited by the end of the journey, though, it seems remarkably less so. One starts to wonder why the rest of the world can't be like the quaint places that Hawks visited, where absurdity, pointlessness, and doing things for the heck of it are things to be admired and welcomed.


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