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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Funniest Books in the Universe #4
Get ready for Andy Griffith`s Mascot Madness! This book is overflowing with banana suits, sports fails, banana-flavoured milk and tomatoes hurled out of a moving bus and lessons entirely based around bananas! It tells the story of school boy Henry McThrottle and his friends as their P.E. teacher Mr Grunt works them to the bone in order to beat rival school Northwest West Academy(For Stuck-Up Losers) at the athletics day. In order to encourage them to try their best, the teacher, Mr Brainfright dresses up as a banana. Everything is well until Mr Brainfright starts thinking he really IS a banana! He even accuses his class of being murderers just for drinking banana-flavoured milk! A banana like no other!
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Cave bear has no bite!
Hmmm, is it fair to write a review of a book you haven't finished reading? Probably not, but one doesn't have to finish eating a Big Mac to know it's not worth finishing.
Jean M. Auel's Clan of the cave bear is a book I've always wanted to have a go at. However, after 100 pages I knew it was a book that was destined to gather dust on my bedside table. I have to admit that the setting is perhaps half to blame. Cavemen grunting at one another failed to grab me, however it was the predictable plot that really edged this mammoth towards extinction.
The books failure to grab me probably says more about me then the quality of the writing. Luckily for me I was able to take it back to the library and get something else. Let's hope that Cloud Atlas by
Jean M. Auel's Clan of the cave bear is a book I've always wanted to have a go at. However, after 100 pages I knew it was a book that was destined to gather dust on my bedside table. I have to admit that the setting is perhaps half to blame. Cavemen grunting at one another failed to grab me, however it was the predictable plot that really edged this mammoth towards extinction.
The books failure to grab me probably says more about me then the quality of the writing. Luckily for me I was able to take it back to the library and get something else. Let's hope that Cloud Atlas by
Funniest Books In The Universe #3
There are comedy books intended for children, comedy books intended for adults and comedy books that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. One of the latter is Jeff Kinney`s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. Another road trip adventure, Greg Heffley`s journal entries tell us about a family road trip that, like U.F.O: Unavoidable Family Outing, just keeps getting worse and worse. Well, worse for THEM, that is. Everything starts off okay, but takes a dead-end turn when the family stays at the worlds worst hotel, another family`s kids ram a cleaning cart into a wall, Greg tells them off and narrowly escapes an encounter with the kid`s dad, who Greg names Mr Beardo. Then the Heffleys win a pig at a country fair and the pig causes so much trouble(including biting Greg`s finger). Then the parents wallets and phones get locked inside a locker at a water park and the key supposedly gets stolen. The family then decides to go home but even the return trip is not peaceful when Manny tries to run away and the dad meets Mr Beardo for the first time and(like Greg) narrowly escapes him. The best Diary of a Wimpy Kid book yet!
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Review: Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth
Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth by Jack Kirby
This a book that offers a Blatant rip off of Planet of the apes and paper thin characters. Yet, I haven't read anything this alive with energy in some time. Here, Kirby has appropriated a second rate idea and turned it into something full of life and creativity. As always, his art jumps off the page and to be honest, makes much of the mainstream art seen today seem very sedate and stale. The stories my lack sophistication but make up for it with no stop action. If you like adventure, talking lions, giant animals and crazy post apocalyptic worlds be sure to check out Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth.
This a book that offers a Blatant rip off of Planet of the apes and paper thin characters. Yet, I haven't read anything this alive with energy in some time. Here, Kirby has appropriated a second rate idea and turned it into something full of life and creativity. As always, his art jumps off the page and to be honest, makes much of the mainstream art seen today seem very sedate and stale. The stories my lack sophistication but make up for it with no stop action. If you like adventure, talking lions, giant animals and crazy post apocalyptic worlds be sure to check out Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth.
Funniest Books In The Universe #1
There are few books funnier than U.F.O:Unavoidable.Family.Outing by Dave Hackett. This book is so funny that if it was made into a movie, I wouldn't be surprised if people came out of the movie theatre with stained pants because they wet themselves from laughing too hard. The book is about a family of five who take a road trip from Sydney all the way to Cape York in Australia. But everything goes hilariously wrong when the eldest girl, Jessica, thinks her boyfriend, BRAD, has been kidnapped after she receives a ransom note on her phone, and the car breaks down after the dad puts an apple pie in the engine and left it to cook. But the funniest part is when the family had to wait two or three days at a gas station that was only open on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Comedy Gold written on 241 pages!
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