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Summary: Hysterically funny
Review: Warning: if you are a serious Tolkien fan, don't buy this book uness you want to be rolling around on the ground convulsed with helpless laughter within minutes! Absolutely one of the funniest parodies ever written, by authors obviously intimately familiar with and fond of the original work. A must-have!
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Summary: Perhaps the funniest book ever written in English.
Review: This is the funniest book I have ever read. I first read it 20 years ago, and nothing else has come close yet. If Monty Python had been writers instead of actors, they might have produced this. It is true that most of the cultural references are hopelessly out of date. My brother and I discover the meanings of several of these allusions each year. It's a game that has been running in the background of our lives for several decades.
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Summary: Lame and not very funny at all
Review: I'm sure that most who read this book are fans of the "Lord of the Rings" as I am. The idea of a parody seemed clever to me back in 1993 and I thought that I should buy this book to complement my complete set of Tolkien's brilliant works. I couldn't even finish half of it. It really has very little to recommend it.
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Summary: brilliant parody
Review: One of the funniest parodies I have ever read! Few books have made me laugh out loud like this one. And to those cretins who claim that Tolkien is somehow above being parodied, I submit that there is only one book that should not be parodied (except by Monty Python), and that book was not written by JRR Tolkien.
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Summary: Dated
Review: I read this about 12 years ago. It's very dated, full of 60s references that'll be lost on many readers. However it's a good book in a weak genre, and at least it makes Tolkien purists cringe.
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Summary: Still gives me flashbacks....
Review: I'm currently rereading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in several years....and every now and then, I get a sudden fit of the giggles as I flashback to Bored of the Rings (even though it's been several years since I read that, too!) It's strange to read of the meeting with Aragorn in Bree and suddenly collapse with laughter at the memory the Boggies meeting Arrowroot son of Arrowshirt in Whee, with the concrete pig and the broken sword ("Until one day it got all rusted , and Sorhead's parry left it busted.") and the ridiculous fight with the Noz'Trils. Or why Dildo Bugger didn't kill Goddam (He could have killed him then, but pity stayed his hand. "It's a pity I've run out of bullets," said Dildo.) Some of it is pretty lame, but a lot of it's just plain fall-off-your-chair-laughing funny.I won't print any more spoilers--just warn you that this book will stick in your head and cause strange smirks whenever you read Lord of the Rings again....maybe even make you collapse in giggles at the screening of the upcoming LOR movie and be hauled away by the men in white...
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Summary: Gimlet, Son of Groin
Review: THE FUNNIEST PARODY EVERY WRITTEN.
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Summary: Bored of the Rings
Review: A hilarious spoof of lord of the rings. Read it in high school, haven't seen it in years, but I sure remember it, and the painful diaphram, and the puzzled looks on passers by, as I tried to keep reading while fighting to be able to breathe through the laughter.
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Summary: one of the funniest ever... worthy of all the gushing
Review: I buy up every used copy of this I find in a bookstore, so I always have some available to give to friends. It's that good. Why? Well, remember how the orcs were the perfect balance to the elves in Tolkien? This is the perfect balance to Tolkien. Everything that is noble and beautiful in LOTR is cleverly parodied here. It's hard to describe without spoiling anything... ok, one example that you'd get in the first few pages. 'Bilbo Baggins' becomes 'Dildo Bugger', a skinflint with an interest in dirty Scrabble. You've got to read the dialogue to appreciate how funny this is. Only small quibble--and it is a very small one--is that a lot of the names used in parody are sufficiently dated that readers born after 1960 will probably need to find a baby boomer to explain some of them. This is worth doing because the more of them you understand, the more you will laugh. What ever became of these guys? They displayed tremendous talent.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This is probably the funniest parody I've ever read!It's amazing that somthing written so many years ago can still be so enjoyable.The adventures of Frito,Spam,Moxie,Pepsi,and Goodgulf are a riot!
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