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Advantages: A laugh a minute
Disadvantages: The loo may be engaged when you need to use it!

I have been putting off reviewing this title because it is so difficult to convey the “flavour” of it and just how entertaining it is but with just five months to Christmas, I felt it was essential to pass on this handy tip for a present for older relatives! My god daughter gave this to me last Christmas and I have to admit that I was slightly offended by the choice when I unpacked it! After all, I might be pushing fifty but I am not in my dotage ...
...not acting my age! However as soon as I started dipping into it, I forgave her because it is the most entertaining and funniest collection of quotations I have ever encountered! Despite the humour, the author, Rosemary Jarski, claims a serious motive in producing this little gem. She claims:- “ Senior citizens have changed and the rest of society has yet to notice. The clichéd image of old age is still common currency in our culture. Media and advertising ... Read review

Advantages: Funny original idea wonderfully illustrated and put together
Disadvantages: Bit of a one trick pony

...are very good. Lady Cottington, the girl featured in the famous fairy photo which caused such a stir when it was first published in 1907, made fairy pressing her life time hobby. Of course no fairies are harmed in the process, in fact it was made an official sport at the Millennial Fairy Olympics in 1921, qualifying for the gooseberry medal. Angelica Cottington’s hand-written diary has entries from childhood to adulthood, “Aug 10th 1896 ...
...include a section sealed by Lady Cottington for the “protection of the innocent” which feature some suitably lewd goblins and a whole flock of fairies mooning!! There is also a pressed fairy vinyl sticker (the peelable sort that can be mounted on glass). The art work is superb throughout and the book never deviates from its premise, Terry Jones’ text is clever and witty but it’s difficult to know who this book is aimed at. ... Read review

Advantages: That little gift that could mean so much
Disadvantages: personal injury or naff cookies

...for your loved ones until the last minute. Well if you want to convey the message of love to your special one here is the book for you. *Synopsis* The Cookie Sutra takes a light hearted approach to the subject thousands of other books have been written, the Karma Sutra. It follows the principles followed by the original book but with its own Gingerbread style injects some humour into the art of lovemaking. We learn about the subtleties of preparing ...
...sensitive, full colour demonstration of the positions of love. Some two dozen images of Gingerbread people in perfect unity, each with a Gingerbread grin to match. The end pages teach us the respect our partners. Cookies never roll over a fall asleep, they are tender and caring. And to finish off there are recipes to make your own cookies of love. ?Is it for you? Those wanting that little humours touch will buy this. Present this along with twelve ... 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