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Advantages: Humorous, got some good tips
Disadvantages: Some might not find it funny

... The Genre 211 Things a Bright Boy Can Do is a humorous book, so I would certainly say it falls into the Humour category and the publisher obviously agrees as this is what says above the barcode on the back, although some may say it could be a Reference book due to the recipes and suchlike in it. The Author This is what it says in the front of the book: "The son of a sex therapist and a sometime Dominican friar, Tom spent his early ...
...at a cloistered university. He began his professional career with a number of false starts as a teacher, set designer, double bass player, speechwriter, printer, toyshop manager, lyricist, wine waiter, City consultant, puppet maker, typographer, magazine editor, bandleader, portrait painter, radio reporter, cartoonist, and ghost writer for Cardinal Hume, before leaving the rat-race to spend more time with his slippers. Tom has written two acclaimed ... 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: Characters now have form!
Disadvantages: Over a bit too quickly

PLOT = On the Discworld, which lies on the backs of four elephants carried through space on a giant space turtle called A’Tuin, there is a high mountain and on the top is Dunmanifestin, where some of the gods of the Discworld take their time to play with the lives of man, and right now they are involved in game that could affect the lives of all on the Discworld. Cohen is a legend, who remembers high adventure and when you weren’t told off ...
...are going to return what the first hero stole, with a vengeance. Only this could mean the end of the world if no one stops them in time… When the news of this quest reaches Ankh-Morpork, the Patrician, Lord Vetinari, consults the Wizards of the Unseen University, to ask whether it was possible to send someone to the mountain before Cohen and his horde reach the gods and persuade them to turn back, unfortunately there is no way of using magic to ... Read review

Advantages: fantastic story
Disadvantages: i think its for kids

TP has been my most read autor ever since i got into reading (after i left school and it wasnt sad anymore!) and this book is one fantastic story in a long line of excellent books. here, the adenture makes you wish you were a wizzard - failed or otherwise, and the humor will make you laugh out loud (on the train - i went so red!). however, it did occur to me the other day that TP writes kids novels - and is this book one of them? the fact is it ... Read review

Advantages: hilarious
Disadvantages: none

...*Can he buy a used air stewardess uniform for his wife to wear in order to spice up their sex life? *Can the pilot stop making announcements about what can be seen out of a certain side of the plane (ie. "Those on the left side will be able to see Spain") as it causes problems with the people on the side of the plane who can't see it? Sometimes it isn't even the original query which is the funniest part, but the follow-up. It is as if Ravenscroft ...
...can, to see how long they will continue to take his request seriously, and when they will finally give up and not bother to reply. At times this takes quite some time, which I suppose says a lot for the customer service industry! One of his pranks in particular went on for quite a while as he wrote a letter to an airline saying he was a 42 stone man and he wanted to know whether or not there would be any seats which would accommodate him. The airline ... Read review