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Summary: wow!
Review: It was never mean to be a classic. I'm 49 & have followed these NatLamp. boys since they were baby boys. As they said ( I would have shot him but pity stayed my hand. It's a pity I ran out of bullets.) Do not take this personally. It was meant to entertain. chas
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Summary: !!!
Review: IN THE NAME OF ELBERETH! The Lord of the Rings is a beautiful, magical story, and I do NOT approve of people making stupid parodies of it! I hope that not all people in the world have such a twisted sense of humour! I mean, even the names utterly stink! Frito? Pepsi? And how do you get "Pepsi" from "Pippin" anyway?!?! I am utterly disgusted!!!
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Summary: "Behold grim Mount Badass!"
Review: I first read this sleazy, sophomoric, and utterly hilarious book when I was an impressionable 12 year old lass in 1974. I had the feverishly encyclopedic knowledge of Middle Earth that only a teen can have, and I relished the dead-on parodies of Tolkien's trilogy. It's all there -- the map, the historical and linguistic footnotes, and "epic" poetry, all done in the style of High Cheese. To this day, my sister and I can quote lines from this magnum opus and crack each other up. One of the few literary highlights of that Avocado, Burnt Orange, and Aztec Gold nightmare called the 70's!
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Summary: Can anything else be a bigger load of garbage
Review: Please can a book get an more stupid. By my opinion this book is a sorry excuse for a book. Anybody who reads the lord of the rings should see my side of this book.
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Summary: This book warped my young mind the first time I read it!
Review: I was beyond dispondent when I learned this book went out of print some time ago. I'm so happy it's back! I read this book the first time in 1978, my Freshman year of high school and I've never been the same since. I have never laughed as hard as when I read "Icky!", "Double icky!" If you've read the book, you know what I mean. If you haven't yet, you need to. There's nothing like taking a classic and turning it upside down.
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Summary: Silly, offensive, dumb, and very funny
Review: I suppose I can understand why some people take offense at the fine fellows who wrote Bored of the Rings. After all, those people clearly live in their parents' basements and need the solace of believing that the Lord of the Rings is the One True Book to make it through their empty days. Fair enough. But the rest of us will cheerfully, or even embarassedly, admit that Bored of the Rings is a guilty pleasure, a silly, profane, and wildly uneven book. It is on the order of the "Airplane" movies, closer to an outright spoof than a parody -- but why mess with nuances when you're dealing with such unsubtle stuff. Read it. Laugh. I bet old John Ronald Ruel would have tittered once or twice.
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Summary: Pointless sophomiric humor- at its very best!
Review: All I can tell you is that you cannot mistake this book for something that will ever be made into a BBC series (our loss). It must be taken for what it is, a lark, a laugh, a trip through idiocy and pratfalls, with truly awful sound effects. But, really, people, does it claim to be anything else? It made me laugh back then, it still has me laughing today, even as I re-read LOTR for the umpteenth time. Take my advice, if you are easily offended by bodily functions or silly humor, a'la Monty Python, then RUN AWAY! If, however, you mind enjoys a relief from the stresses of modern life, pick this book up and enjoy...I guarantee you will not put it down until you are done.
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Summary: Sidesplitting
Review: One of the most hilariously funny books of all time. This beats the bloated, overlong original. How many other books are there where you can sit there laughing at the cover for ten minutes? "Look, Master Frito," said Spam, pointing up the road. "Elfs, lots of them. Ooooooo, I must be dreaming. I wish the old Fatlip could see me now." "I wish I was dead," whined Pepsi. "So do I," said Moxie. "May the good fairy what lives in the sky grant your every wish," said Spam.
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Summary: This is no parody; only a poor excuse to write garbage.
Review: _____The introduction of this book not withstanding, this is truly a poor excuse to put down on paper language and situations that may be best left unused and unthought. Just because the authors warn beforehand that this is not meant as literature and that no one should take offense, it does not justify its contents. _____To begin with this is not a parody. A true parody usually occurs when something(s) worthy has(ve) to be said and the author uses a known literary work to set up a frame that the reader will be familiar with and introduce his/her point(s). Sagacity and ingeniousness to introduce new ideas in a known plot with minor variations make for a good parody. James Joyce's "Ulysses" is a very ingenious parody of the Greek poet Homer's epic poem "the Odessy." Shakespeare's use of the Greek Orestes' trilogy in his "Hamlet" is an adaptation that may be seen as a parody. Another option is using elements of known works to make a new story, usually in contrasting story lines; this is another valid version of a parody. Read Cervantes' "Don Quixote" the greatest parody of all time for this latter type of parody. Parodies do not have to be funny, they have to be smart. And this makes us laugh. BOTR is way off the mark to be a parody. It has no discernible point to be made that would validate its existance other than the authors' concupiscence and desire to write down sexual situations, some time-period references, name brands and gross bodily functions. The worst part is that this garbage has to be compared to LOTR because it makes references to and is based on it. But garbage has always been printed and will always be printed. The part that should worry us is that there are people that consider this good writing and defend it (see some of the previous reviews). It's OK if you like to read garbage and if you have a sick mind but don't lead sensible, smart people to buy this very unworthy book saying that it's a good parody of LOTR. It isn't. If you do not care fo outright gross sexual innuendo and bodily function comedy, save a few bucks and buy a tabloid. That's better than BOTR!
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Summary: Cautionary tale
Review: I first read Bored of the Rings in the mid seventies on a train travelling between London and Nottingham. My uncontrollable laughter, tears rolling down my face etc seemed to incite the ticket inspector and when I couldn't stop, he threw me off the train at Wellingborough. It took me ages to get back to Nottingham.
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