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Stalin Ate My Homework

By: Alexei Sayle
Narrated by: Alexei Sayle
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Alexei knew he was doomed to be different the day he was taken to see Sergei Eisentein's Alexander Nevsky instead of Walt Disney's Bambi. Born on the day that egg rationing came to an end, Alexei grew up with his parents and the Soviet Weekly. Each year they holidayed in Eastern Europe, where they were shown round locomotive factories and the sites of Nazi atrocities.

Very funny and (almost) stranger than Alexei's fiction, this is a memoir about how Liverpool, Communism, and a mother that his teachers were frightened of, made him want to leave home and make people laugh.

©2010 Alexei Sayle (P)2010 Hodder & Stoughton Funny Witty Thought-Provoking

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This is an excellent book, wonderfully narrated. Sayle is great and his early life fascinating even extraordinary. I hope one day he does the next instalment.

I wish I’d named our dog Molka

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written with such fondness for his parents that you will end up loving them too, but so incredibly funny that I found myself laughing out loud on a crowded bus until people sitting around me were laughing too.

love and laughter

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Engaging, funny, touching and incredibly evocative of the world of the 50s. Well read by the author - this is not always the case with authors.

I do hope there will be a follow up.

So good I wanted to write about my own childhood

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brilliantly funny haven't laughed out loud so much at a book for ages. recommend it

laugh out loud funny

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As a fellow scoucer there are things that resonated with me. But the joy of the story lies in listening to tales of someone trying to find his way just like the rest of us. Thanks Alexei , Molly and joe for a brilliant story.

Enjoyable look at the road to adulthood

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If you like Alexei Sayle then you cannot help but like this; it's hilarious. His story of growing up in a Communist family in 1960s Liverpool is told episodically with immense warmth and vivid charm.

Laugh out loud funny

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Narrated by the author so if you like Alexei you’re in for a treat. Full of his pithy one liners he describes his unique upbringing.

Hilarious

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Parts are very funny, the book is basically an autobiography of his early years - a very interesting and very unusual childhood, so it not meant to be consistently amusing but he looks back with humour and fondness for his parents and the sometimes bizare circumstances he finds himself in.

alexi

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Alexei Sayle had a childhood like no other. He tells it hilariously and warmly. I loved this book.

A fascinating life story.

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A remarkable insight into the life of one of the UKs best comedians... and the minds of his communist parents.

Alexei Sayle’s life...

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