bookshelves: adventure, doo-lally, flufferoonies, winter-20112012, seven-seas, series, published-2006, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, ouch, period-piece, paper-read, amusing, young-adult Read from January 02 to 03, 2012 ** spoiler alert ** dedication: To Sophie, who still has a quarter of a million ...
bookshelves: pirates-smugglers-wreckers, philosophy, zoology, seven-seas, winter-20112012 Read from January 02 to 03, 2012 Dedication - To Sophie, who has a quarter of a million poundsOpening - 'The best bit about being a pirate,' said the pirate with gout, 'is the looting.'There be footnotes and...
So, these books are pretty much the silliest things ever. They’re satire, sure, but the satire is so silly, it’s lost most of its bite. And not that I’m complaining, mind you, because I laugh my ass off when I’m reading them. Every one of these books has the same basic structure: the Pirate Captai...
This has been labelled as an adult book in the public library but I suspect it's more young teens (YA) because while it was mildly amusing as a read for me, I don't get the wry humour. I might be just out of the target reader market.
Two weeks ago, I went to my nearest cinema to watch The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists. It was a fun little film, and it's classic Aardman entertainment, but it's nothing great. In fact, as far as Aardman films go, it's maybe a little notch above Flushed Away. But it isn't bad, it just isn...
I don't really know where to start writing a review for Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists. When I was sent a review copy I have to admit that the cover didn't really catch my attention, in fact I doubt I'd have picked it up if I hadn't realised that the book is the inspiration for the new Aar...
If you write a plotless, satirical book with cardboard cut-out characters that could technically be called a novelette because it's so short it had better be hilarious. I found the book more silly than funny. I know this is satire but why should only the pirate captain talk like a pirate? The schti...
Dedication - To Sophie, who has a quarter of a million poundsOpening - 'The best bit about being a pirate,' said the pirate with gout, 'is the looting.'There be footnotes and a map - what more do you need to add to a humourous script about Darwin and pirates and Mr BoboFunniest moment - page 82. Lu...
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