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By Royal Appointment Advantages: SUE TOWNSEND Disadvantages: Too many Adrian Moleisms! ...enjoy reading so much, that the minute I have finished, I want to start reading it over again! Adrian Mole was my first introduction to Sue Townsend and her style of writing appealed greatly to me, it was informal, light and reflective or indeed, indicative of 'society' at the time. Reading the Queen and I was a pleasure from start to finish. it charts the fall and fall of the Royal Family, who are moved to a council estate after a Republican Government ... ...Queen manages well, Margaret on the other hand fights tooth and nail) and what it does brilliantly is reflect the inner feelings of the Royal family and the notions that we all have about them...Anne gets on with it and falls for a carpet fitter...Diana, dresses for the challenge, Charles turns his garden into an allotment and has 'never looked happier'. The children (all much younger than they are today obviously) quickly adapt to life on the estate ... excelsior81 31.07.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
The work of a twisted genius Advantages: Hilarious, light-hearted and easy to get into Disadvantages: Quite short Quite simply the funniest book I've ever read, and one that highlights the genius that hides behind Karl Pilkington's clueless exterior. The book is made of up transcripts from the podcast series featuring Ricky Gervais, Karl Pilkington and Steve Merchant. All of the transcripts make the adaptation from sound to print very well and I defy anyone to read through them and not laugh out loud on several occasions. Added to the transcripts are amusing ... Xanshin 15.02.2008 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of The World of Karl Pilkington - Karl Pilkington
Foxes and environmentalists in the headlights Advantages: Funny in places Disadvantages: Lacks consistency ...aware of Jeremy Clarkson through the excellent TV programme Top Gear, a show that is not just for petrol heads as it is also one of the funniest programmes on TV as well given some of the stunts and challenges they do. In the show he is the arrogant, opinionated alpha male with a hearty dislike of Europe, foxes, anything environmentally friendly and French cars. Oh and political correctness. In addition to his TV work he also writes a newspaper column ... ...Apart from the toilet reading on offer at my sister house this was the first Clarkson book that I have read and I was interested to see if the humour generated on Top Gear could be translated into the written word. The book itself is made up of a series of short, two or three page, rants or observations on a myriad of topics that stretch from the opening page discussion of an additional public holiday to such varied topics as the joys of the circus, ... atticusuk 21.06.2008 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The World According to Clarkson - Jeremy Clarkson
Not His best but worth a read. Advantages: Very, very funny - as usual. Disadvantages: Not up to the standard of earlier works ...'Wilt' and 'Blot on the Landscape' both had me splitting my sides laughing ( although I was slightly disappointed with 'Grantchester Grind.'), so I was very pleased to find 'The Midden' in a local charity shop - I paid my £1 and took home the book to sit reading it in the lovely Lancashire sunshine!! Tom Sharpe is either a comical genius or an absolute madman - he always throws his characters into incredible, unbelievable situations, and stands ... ...Thatcher's England - with all the greed and hunger for bigger and better that prevailed at that time. .Timothy Bright, from a well to do family , is in his late twenties. He may be 'Bright' by name but what he certainly isn't is bright by nature!! His life as a finicial advisor held a bright future, but this is a Sharpe novel and consequently things go horribly wrong!! Hounded by appalling debts, Timothy Bright gets involved with the mob, robs his ... oldchem 05.06.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Midden - Tom Sharpe
AND You Can Stop A Table Wobbling With It! 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 ... BNibbles 15.09.2008 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook - Joshua Piven