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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: slightly entertaining and easy to read
Disadvantages: stupid inappropriate endings,confusing at times,quite boring storylines

...any good? *** About 4 Blondes *** When I got this book I expected it to be just like most novels, different chapters, each leading on from the last. However what I actually found was that it was set out a little different. There are four sections within the book. Suddenly I realised those must be for each of the four blondes that the book was about. It was strange because it was set out like short stories are set out, but that couldn’t be true ...
...it, it doesn’t say anything about it being short stories. However, it was true and so the first thing you should know is this is NOT a novel it is simply four short stories rolled into a book and after I’d finished it I realised none of the stories were connected. So without further ado I’ll tell you about each of the four different stories. *** Nice ‘N’ Easy *** This is the first story in the book. It follows Janey Wilcox, a B-List model that ... Read review

Advantages: many
Disadvantages: none

...time: S.J. Harris is a friend of mine. He’s also a deeply lovely person. I’m going to rave about his incredible and endless talents, because they’re incredible and endless, not because he’s my friend, and a deeply lovely person. But you should know, just in case it matters to you. S.J. Harris is a cartoonist by trade (and almost certainly by nature). He’s written a number of humorous graphic books (a guide to hats, ...
...define his style (on seeing a cartoon of Ophelia banked with umbrellas the best I could do was “Renoir by way of Tim Burton”), but the man himself describes it as sometimes a form of Art Deco, sometimes a gothic form of the same. And given his sweeping androgynous figures, ink splatters, alcoholic themes and louche Englishness, this is a pretty accurate description. I must also borrow one from ciao’s own dadmancat, who spotted a ... Read review

Advantages: Funny and real.
Disadvantages: Ends before the shooting starts.

...have been four sequels to Adolf Hitler - My Part In His Downfall:- Rommel: Gunner Who? Monty: His Part In My Victory Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall Where Have All The Bullets Gone? After the war, Spike teamed up with Harry Secombe*, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine to create that ground-breaking BBC radio comedy The Goon Show (1951-60). A manic depressive, the pressure of writing the weekly show led to a nervous breakdown. Later, his 1960's ... 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