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Summary: A terrible book
Review: I can't believe someone would copy such a great author. Personally I think he just wants money. I am a big Harry Potter fan but I'm not copying someone. Plus he only changed the first two letters of his name.
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Summary: Save your money !
Review: The funniest part of this book are the "mutilated" names (i.e. Laord Valuemart, The Dork Forces, etc), and that probably says it all.
While it is somewhat amusing to imagine a "grown up" Harry Potter who feeds off his notoriety, that's not enough to make a good parody.
My advice : save your money for the next Harry Potter book !
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Summary: Not for me
Review: I bought this book, mainly because I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and while waiting for J.K. Rowling's new book (seems like an enternity) I tried to wet my appetite a little with this book. I really wish I hadn't. I really did try to give it a chance. I didn't laugh once and the jokes that may have been funny, I just didn't get because the writing and spelling were sloppy and horrible. It would have been much better if the person could actually write and form decent sentences. I don't usually give up on books, no matter how bad, but I couldn't get past the third chapter. So, all you Potter Fans, do yourself a big favor and just save your time and money for the next Harry Potter book, the real one and not this rubbish.
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Summary: What a hoot....
Review: I am a huge Harry fan, having all the books in hardback and audio tape. I just upgraded to CD so I can listen in my car. A very fun way to make long drives, or when I am sewing of an evening.
I picked this up at Powell's in the Portland airport during an especially long, uncomfortable flight (4 planes, 2 airlines, 18 hours....) and wound up laughing out loud during my Portland to Minneapolis leg - my seatmate thought I was nuts, but it sure took the edge off the flight!
Don't look to this book for intellectual stimulation, or for a 'sacred' look at Harry in his adulthood. These people are more your every-day Joes, just looking for a way to get by, and stumbling more than they stand. A very relaxing, and relaxed, look at the Potters, by an author who is relaxed enough about himself and his writing to not only poke fun at his characters, but at himself.
Having an especially tough day? Pull this out and have a giggle, you deserve it!
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Summary: Absolutely Horrible!!!!
Review: The funniest part of this book are the "mutilated" names (i.e. Laord Valuemart, The Dork Forces, etc), and that probably says it all.
While it is somewhat amusing to imagine a "grown up" Harry Potter who feeds off his notoriety, that's not enough to make a good parody.
My advice : save your money for the next Harry Potter book !
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: There's a good reason Mad magazine and similar publicatons have pictures: Because pure narrative can only carry such base humor for so long. "Barry Trotter and the Unauthorized Parody" is undebatable proof of that.An attempted parody of J.K. Rowling's best-selling Harry Potter series, "Barry Trotter" is at best a poor attempt at humor. Filled with 174 pages of fingers being randomly shoved up noses and endless bathroom jokes, it is entirely devoid of cleverness, a key element -- strike that: THE key element -- of good parody. (The word sophomoric comes to mind, but then that seems to be a little generous. Perhaps "excretory" is more fitting. It certainly is in keeping with the theme of the book.) If you're tempted to pick up this book for your children out of a misguided attempt at coaxing them to read, resist. Instead, have them look up dirty words in the dictionary. That way, they might actually learn something worthwhile.
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Summary: Funny. Didn't see it coming.
Review: I was sceptical when I first heard of it but I loved the first chapter that I read online so I had to get it and I don't regret it! I found all the gags with Ferd and jorge's sweets very amusing.
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