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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Entertaining, but slight This is an excellent little humourous dictionary of things that don't actually have names, but really should (like those corrugated bits of flesh you get round your ankles from wearing too-tight socks). Good fun, and Douglas Adams fans will find lots of great jokes within, just be aware that by it's very nature this is the sort of book you'll pull off of the shelf and randomly flick through for 5 minutes from time to time, rather than something you'll sit down and read from cover to cover. Great fun, but... more info
Disappointing I was expecting something readible, and entertaining. I would advise anyone considering buying this book to buy Salmon of Doubt instead. It is important to note that this is not a proper book, it's a dictionary. It follows this format: -name of obscure town-: -obscure meaning for 'word' aka obscure town- 1 star, not worth the effort.
Pure Genius! What a fantastic book - what a brilliant concept. Hundreds of words simply wasting their time hanging around on signposts. Hundreds of objects, situations, states of mind etc. for which there are no words in common use. Two quick examples... Have you ever walked along a street, only to encounter someone coming in the opposite direction, at which point you engage in a little dance that involves both of you skipping from side to side, interspersed with apologies? You have? Droitwich! Those bits... more info
Random, hilarious...the best book in the world. Douglas Adams has already become famous with the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy with it's really random approach to the world in his classic sci-fi humour. In the Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas teams up with John LLoyd to make the ultimate in random and true humour. If things that are funny becasue they're true are you thing, then you will instantly fall in love with this book. There is not a single page where there isn't at least one word that will set you bursting out with laughter. All words are place... more info
