The Cad The Toby Series Book 3 eBook Robert MacLean
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“I had to keep reminding myself that I was reading a book and not watching a movie—Robert MacLean's 'The Cad' is that entertaining.”—David Hallman
“I really enjoyed reading The Cad. I found myself laughing throughout.”—Joanne Chase
“The Toby Series is one of the most enjoyable series that I have ever read. Shades of Wodehouse and yet so modern and well..bizarre.. Had me in fits of laughter all the way through. What a bad boy !! What a great series !!”— Customer
“I never thought I could enjoy a writer as much as I enjoy P.G. Wodehouse, but I've found him in Robert MacLean. Since I first discovered The President's Palm Reader, I've read all his books and found myself being amused, laughing out loud…”—Winslow
“This book is deliciously insane. The life and loves of a lazy tour guide in Greece presented in a collection of crazy experiences. I loved it.”—Ldub
“The Cad offers us Toby, a perfect bounder, acting as tourguide who flies by the seat of his pants.”—Blaine Carwell
“Toby is irrepressible and irredeemable, a delightfully comic creation whose most exasperating quality is also his most endearing the more we get to know him, the less we expect from him.”—The Montreal Gazette
On hardcover Foreign Matter (New York, Atheneum/Macmillan), first of the Tobies
“Truly a very, very funny book."—The West Coast Review of Books
“Fresh and spirited.”—Publishers Weekly
“Enormously enjoyable.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A complete success.”—Books in Canada
“A delightfully comic creation.”—The Montreal Gazette
“Funny, ebullient comedy of errors.”—Santa Cruz Sentinal
“The feel of a Peter Sellers movie.”—Wichita Eagle-Beacon
“Fast-moving and funny.”—Anniston Star
“Could bode well for his future.”—The New York Times
The West Coast Review of Books
Unlike so many humorous novels of today that are either bitter and biting or so outrageously silly that it leaves the reader feeling empty, this one’s truly a very, very funny book….Robert MacLean writes as a true humorist with witty observations and illuminations that wrap themselves warmly around the funny bone. Yet he is not above writing a hilarious slapstick when the need arises. MacLean’s observations on such everyday matters as flying, sleeping, eating and life in general are alone worth the price of the book. However, the addition of a wild and unpredictable plot with characters so wonderfully rich and eccentric, makes the book even more of a joy.
Kirkus Reviews
The high jinks of a loveable ne’er-do-well expatriate—in an often very funny novel in the style of P.G. Wodehouse or Kingsly Amis. Toby Tucker is an amiable, quite lazy young man in his late 30’s who has left New York with numerous collection agents on his tail “Most of them couldn’t make it as thugs, and they’re bitter about it.” An energetic comedy of errors….fighting his way through blinding hangovers to somehow blunder through victoriously—but he’s enormously enjoyable while he’s at it.
Publishers Weekly
Toby Tucker is the feckless, likeable hero of this comic tale of modern undirected life. After supporting himself in Europe as a tour guide, Toby takes up with Marcie, a young American widow whose allowance from Hazelton Harding, her wealthy father-in-law, guarantees a lifestyle Toby is sure he was born for. When Haze threatens to cut off Marcie so she’ll move back to the States with her daughter—a precocious youngster Toby warily refers to as “the child”—Toby alternately falls and steps into a plot to reestablish the status quo…. a happy ending for nearly every one of the vivid characters who cavort across the pages of this fresh and spirited first novel.
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The Cad The Toby Series Book 3 eBook Robert MacLean
"The Cad" is actually the first book chronologically in the Toby series. Toby is working as a tour guide in Greece depending on looks, personality, and psychology more that actual knowledge of historical sites. He leads the tour group from hell on a trip around the Greek islands. Most of the stuff he gets into isn't really his fault, unlike the situations in "Total Moisture."I read "Total Moisture" first and was looking for more of the same. "The Cad" is still witty. Toby is still the same character, trying to do as little as possible and stay entertained. Although there are some situations that were laugh out loud funny it didn't make me fall off the sofa crying like "Total Moisture" did.
At times the book rambled. It even got a little philosopical about whether it was better to become a member of the real world with a job and responsibilities, or continue the life of the least resistance.
I highly recommend the book. But I give it 4 of 5 stars just because the other book was better.
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The Cad The Toby Series Book 3 eBook Robert MacLean Reviews
It was a good read, some parts really funny. I rated it a 3 because it was just ok to me, not outstanding nor bad.
I'm not going out to get the next in the Toby Series but would probably read if came across.
This book is deliciously insane. The life and loves of a lazy tour guide in Greece presented in a collection of crazy experiences. I loved it.
"The Cad" offers us Toby, a perfect bounder, acting as tourguide who flies by the seat of his pants, making up his life & tourist information as he goes merrily along...weaving in & out of scrapes with ensuing hilarity. Moral Toby's a "Cad" because he lives by his own rules. He simply can't be controlled & can't be bought...well, depends on the price. Anyone in need of diversion & lots of laughs will love Toby. Well, can't stop with just one...on to "Foreign Matter..." & more of Toby's misadventures.
I never thought I could enjoy a writer as much as I enjoy P.G. Wodehouse, but I've found him in Robert MacLean. Since I first discovered The President's Palm Reader, I've read all his books and found myself being amused, laughing out loud, getting engrossed in his (or the main character's?) philosophical musings and meanderings, and just generally feeling as though I have made a friend.
I really enjoyed reading The Cad. I found myself laughing throughout. Maclean's writing style was smooth and flowing, with extremely humorous situations coming up over and over again as the main character, Toby, leads a mishmash group of tourists on a tour of Greece and the islands. It gets a little silly at times, but it's light and funny and I really appreciated this author's writing style. Good work! Thank you!
The Cad is, in a word, contemplative. I liked it better than the more action-oriented Total Moisture. This is Toby in his pre-Marcie days leading tour groups around Greece and trying his level best to find activities for them that allow him to sneak off for a nap. It is very similar to MacLean's novella "Certainly Something" in Will You Please F--- Off?
MacLean's novels are equal parts observational humour, slapstick and conversation. The Cad adds another element into the mix introspection. Being typically ponderous anyway, Toby is prone to a bit of introspection here and there, but MacLean has taken it far further in this novel. Toby spends a lot of time performing philosophical gymnastics, ruminating over his shiftless existence in the context of falling in love with a woman on in his tour group - who he's not quite sure if he loves or not. "I don't know," he says, "I don't know."
Still, there is some very amusing material here. MacLean's prose shines as he cheerfully skewers his ugly and otherwise malformed characters on the wits and good looks of his others. The outrageous cast is a credit to his imagination, and if nothing else you will find yourself laughing at the sheer absurdity of the scenarios he concocts for them.
"He still had a sideburn but that had come off in his hand. The whole surface of his head tingled so dangerously that he could not but have run water and rinsed it, soaped it and rinsed it, possibly feeling a perverse and remote pleasure in the smoothness to the touch of a once unsuspected surface but then rising into the mirror like a misaligned planet, his eyes deep in sockets below the now limitless brow like creatures peering out of caves."
There is Mr Mishima, a Japanese businessman trying to recover from an acupuncture accident that has cursed him with a permanent erection, Duane the chronically ill-fated dweeb who lusts after Bonnie, a 16-year-old beyond her years with a penchant for taking her clothes off; then there's Mrs. Handcock, the 90-something ex-stripper with an out-of-control libido, and Father O., a priest who wants out of the Catholic cloister and in to every man on the tour. And that's less than half of them. Toby watches all of this with detached insouciance, trying his best to find the line between being totally hands-off and still getting paid, and relating it all to the reader with such unexpected wisdom and charm that you end up loving him for his utter commitment to uselessness.
"In spite of my ouzo hangover, which is approximate to having an anvil inside your skull a half-size too large for it, I had climbed up here to be with my group. What sleep I had had I had accomplished with the dresser shoved against the door until mess call, and I was not yet feeling complicity with all who exhibit joy sort of thing. The vertigo was alpine. In the woods the cicadas screamed. I was actually contemplating suicide."
See, the wonderful thing about these books is that MacLean has his narrator function at about 10% of MacLean's own potential. He doesn't read, he tells us, and he considers a movie critic to be anyone who knows the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. But in choosing to use the first person, MacLean has created a hilarious irony. We know Toby is smart in spite of his best efforts not to use his brain, which means that he shines every time MacLean puts him under pressure; every time he is absolutely forced to use his mind, the amazing happens.
"'What was between you and Swan?' she said.
I shrugged. 'Just a brief thing. I saw her through a difficult period. I don't mean in the menstrual sense. She was having trouble with her legs. She didn't have anybody to kiss her legs.'
She put her hands on my chest. 'You're not capable of being serious, are you.'"
If you only read one Toby book, however, I'd recommend Foreign Matter. It's a good balance of everything that makes these books truly spectacular.
I had to keep reminding myself that I was reading a book and not watching a movie - Robert MacLean's "The Cad" is that entertaining. One gets swept along by dialogue that's acerbically witty, characters that are so well realized you have their images imprinted in your mind within the first few chapters, and a rollicking plot that harkens back to the "Carry On" movies except that there's a lot more sex. One can't call Toby, the main character and narrator, a Casanova because he's not really the pursuer as he is the object of women's lusts, which is understandable since he acknowledges in all due modesty how rakishly desirable he is to the opposite sex. Robert MacLean has a great touch for ensemble acting/writing among his characters - I see screenwriting or directing in his future.
"The Cad" is actually the first book chronologically in the Toby series. Toby is working as a tour guide in Greece depending on looks, personality, and psychology more that actual knowledge of historical sites. He leads the tour group from hell on a trip around the Greek islands. Most of the stuff he gets into isn't really his fault, unlike the situations in "Total Moisture."
I read "Total Moisture" first and was looking for more of the same. "The Cad" is still witty. Toby is still the same character, trying to do as little as possible and stay entertained. Although there are some situations that were laugh out loud funny it didn't make me fall off the sofa crying like "Total Moisture" did.
At times the book rambled. It even got a little philosopical about whether it was better to become a member of the real world with a job and responsibilities, or continue the life of the least resistance.
I highly recommend the book. But I give it 4 of 5 stars just because the other book was better.
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