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Advantages: Extremely Entertaining and Funny
Disadvantages: Get Repetitive when you get to the fifth book

...five parts, as its called-The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the end of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and thanks for all the Fish and Mostly Harmless. They are quite expensive-about £5.00 each I think, though you can buy then in a single hardbook copy for only about £15.00 and if you buy them used, they are cheap. The Science Fiction Comedy genre of the book is hard to write-the balance between the two ...
...It is science fiction, but the science fiction is funny. I think that the whole universe in the guide is quite insane and weird, but extremely funny. The humour inside the book is very similar to that of the Monty Python Movies. Basically, the book is about a normal Earthman named Arthur Dent who is thirty year old. He finds himself lying in front of a bulldozer to prevent his house being demolished to make way for a new bypass. Though his friend, ... Read review

Advantages: Funny in parts, the appendix is worth a look.
Disadvantages: Not what I expected, one joke stretched.

...bad boys I can get the books I really want in hardback but can seldom afford. However, we all know that no book ever costs dead on twenty pound so what do we do with the pennies we have left? Save them for another time? Nah, what we would rather do is scour the site for a cheap and cheerful little number we would have otherwise never contemplated. Douglas Adams's and John Lloyd's "Deeper Meaning of Liff" definitely falls into this category. The ...
...the Galaxy" series but who is this John Lloyd bloke? Unbeknown to me John Lloyd is the producer behind several television comedies including "Not the Nine O Clock News", "Spitting Image" and "Blackadder". A fine pedigree indeed but would these two funnymen combined create a thoroughbred or a mongrel? The concept ************** This book is the sequel to "The Meaning of Liff". The first book was created due to Adams's boredom. While attempting ... Read review

Advantages: It's not terribly expensive
Disadvantages: It's not terribly funny

For years, a friend of mine kept going on about a book that was a parody of "The Lord of the Rings". At the time it was out of print, but he would quote one of the lines from it at every opportunity and bemoan the fact that he never had a copy of his own. Fortunately, the surge of interest in the original books when the films were being made resulted in a republication of the parody and so he was finally able to own his own copy of "Bored of the ...
...about it, so was I. Following rather loosely the plot of "The Lord of the Rings", Frito Bugger is charged with a quest to travel across the world and destroy a ring. He is accompanied on his quest by his friend Spam, the magician Goodgulf and a couple of rather annoying boggies, Moxie and Pepsi. Legolam the elf, Gimlet the dwarf, Stomper the Ranger and Bromosel complete the party. We get to follow their journey from the boggies' home in the Sty, ... Read review

Advantages: Compact - some sensible advice to pick the bones out of
Disadvantages: Avoiding alien abduction?

When the original Worst Case Scenario Survival handbook was published, it covered emergencies many of which were only the kind experienced by Ray Mears and that ilk. The issue of a Travel version or sub-section makes all kind of sense, since most of the scrapes that the Man On The Clapham Omnibus will get into are more likely to occur whilst travelling to, or actually being in , foreign climes. I think someone gave me this book as a stocking ...
...such it's lain around in the bed-side table just waiting to come to the top of the pile as a bit of 'loo-time' reading. Any book thus designated must know that if found wanting, its pages may get used for something else. In fact, since this is the Travel edition of the "W-C S S H*", it even suggests doing this in the section on lavatorial emergencies. *(If you think I'm going to type out 'Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook' every time, think ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant read!
Disadvantages: None!

...really does include everything that IS shit and takes the mickey out of it until you're blue in the face laughing. I absolutely love this book and the second edition - Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit, Vol II. for which I waited in anticipation until the day of its release. I received this book for Christmas, from my mum who thought it was right up my street. It was and within days I'd read it cover to cover, laughing so hard that it became annoying ...
...reading material. The humour is sophisticated, with obvious signs that these guys are pros...this isn't just a book written by two blokes who've just come back from the pub. This is satire, wit, a little sarcasm and a lot of intelligence, even the arrangement and formation of sentences and language used becomes funny. It's just funny through and through. It's not that easy to make me laugh out loud with books, especially the kind of books released ... Read review