Review: Funniest book of the year!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2014
I just adored this book, it was so outrageously hilarious that it had me in splits right from the first page to the last. People were glaring at me while I was letting out howls of laughter, sitting at Starbucks and reading this book on my Kindle, but I didn't care!This book reminded me so much of the cult classic, Catch-22. It has the same zany, crazy characters, thrown into a completely hopeless situation, in a world gone completely mad. This book is based on a single crazy night in a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, an urban, modern, rambunctious, multicultural city, much like New York, London or Paris.Our hero is Moses, a 51-year old orderly with an IQ of a borderline genius. He has no life, no wife or girlfriend, no family of any sort – but he is supremely efficient at his job, holding the entire hospital together. Helping Moses are his friends, Salim, a charming and funny Arab orderly, Carmella, a 38-year old recently divorced nurse, who is also Moses' secret love interest, Dr.Dina, a young doctor way out of her league, Carmit, a very cynical nurse and many other delightful characters. Corpses and thieves also make their presence felt!As we learn later, the writer, L.L.Fine actually worked as an orderly in a hospital in his youth, so he really knows what he is writing about. This book has made me appreciate our Health Care professionals, who battle almost insurmountable odds on a daily basis for very little in return,  a whole lot more. They are our true heroes, and this book is a wonderful tribute to them.