Your Inner Hedgehog
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In the latest entertaining and hilarious Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld novel, our hopelessly out-of-touch hero is forced to confront uppity librarians, the rector of the university and a possible hostile takeover, all while trying to remain studiously above it all.
Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld and his colleagues at the University of Regensburg's Institute of Romance Philology pride themselves on their unwavering commitment to intellectual excellence. They know it is their job to protect a certain civilised approach to the scholarly arts. So when a new deputy librarian, Dr Hilda Schreiber-Ziegler, threatens to drag them all down a path of progressive inclusivity, they are determined to stop her in the name of scholarship - even if that requires von Igelfeld to make the noble sacrifice of running for director of the Institute. Alas, politics is never easy, and in order to put his best foot forward, von Igelfeld will be required to take up a visiting fellowship at Oxford and cultivate the attentions of a rather effusive young American scholar. Still, von Igelfeld has always heeded the clarion call of duty, especially when it comes with a larger office.
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over 100 books on a wide array of subjects, including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world's longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been translated into 46 languages. Alexander McCall Smith is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds honorary doctorates from 13 universities.
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- Jeckylberry
- 29-10-2021
Not a great story. Bad narration ruined it.
I have followed the endearing and funny stories of the previous four books in this series. I’m disappointed with the weak story that doesn’t have the usual unintentional adventure of the protagonist. It doesn’t have any mention of the families of the other characters or much at all. It does have some of the essentials, though, and it is still fun.
I think a lot of the enjoyment of these novels is in the way in which it is written and, in the case of an audiobook, the way it is read. The new narrator makes no distinction between any of the characters and talks throughout the whole book like a caricature of a sermonising pedant. It was really distracting, tiring and irritating to listen to. Truly missed the previous guy or Hugh Laurie who read the first one. They understood the irony of the language and the richness of the characters and would have made this mediocre story much, much more entertaining.
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