Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

A few months ago, I watched Grand Budapest Hotel. I was enchanted. I was amused. And I was pretty sure I was never going to see anything like it ever again. Undermajordomo Minor, by Patrick deWitt, is pretty close. It features a young man who takes a job as a servant at a huge building where he gets to mix with the wealthy and eccentric. He is mentored by a man who has been there for ages, who is as strange as the people he serves. There’s a bit of a love story. There are a lot of ridiculous action sequences. And, like Grand Budapest Hotel, I loved every minute of Undermajordomo Minor. All that said, however, I don’t want to say that the two stories are exactly the same. Undermajordomo Minor is darker...

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