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Summary: Great read!!!
Review: A lovely, funny read. The royals are handled with respect (well, except the bubble-headed Di) and affection. I would have given it five stars but for the ending, the writing of which was obviously farmed out to the local elementary school.
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Summary: Great read!!!
Review: A lovely, funny read. The royals are handled with respect (well, except the bubble-headed Di) and affection. I would have given it five stars but for the ending, the writing of which was obviously farmed out to the local elementary school.
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Summary: bloody uproarious
Review: All my pretence at a neutral attitude about the royal family has been obliterated by reading this book!
I simply can't imagine that they are any different from the way Townsend portrays them--now I will always dislike Princess Margaret, adore Anne, think Diana was hilariously superficial, and CHarles tragic in his foolishness and frustrated humanitarianism. Edward's pricelessly daft letter from on the road with the cast of "Sheep!" the musical will color everything I read about him for ever and ever.
It is, certainly, a classic study of the British class system, but it's also just plain hilarious.
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Summary: One of the best books I ever read! =)
Review: I fell off my sofa lafing! I recomend this book olny if you like to laff. It has some realey funny parts!
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Summary: The greatest character-by-accent tape you will hear!
Review: I heard the tapes a few years back and had to get them for myown. What a scream! Susan Townsend's text is wild enough, the audioversion will have you rolling on the floor. One of the few cases where the tapes really are the best part. I would encourage this as a gift for any devoted Anglophile, I can't wait for my copy!
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Summary: A lovely & very funny book
Review: I just finished reading the Queen & I & I loved it. I absolutely adored The Adrian Mole books and in my opinion, this book is just as good. Sue Townsend has a very distinct and familiar way with her words. She has become one of my favorite authors.
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Summary: I have never seen the Royal Family of England in this way
Review: I loved reading the queen and I, it gives you a totally different look of the stiff Royal Family of England. The book criticeses the Members of the Royal family completely, sometimes they even look ridiculous. I never knew that Charles did not want to be king and I never knew that Prince Philip was such a spoiled person. The book gives you a look at the way the population ( at least one)sees the United Kingdom. i mean the social benefits, prison life etc.
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Summary: I wonder what the Queen thought of this one?
Review: I sometimes think that Sue Townsend has the ability to take the most everyday of situations and mundane people and put them in witty, funny difficulties; first bringing Adrian Mole to hilarious reality, then a young Margaret Thatcher, Ms. Townsend breathes life, humour and satire into a personality that few might associate with side-splitting humour...the Queen!What would happen if the Republicans were to win the British elections by a landslide? The story begins with Queen (and Corgi)watching media coverage of such an event on the Master-bedroom telly at Buckingham Palace. The Royal family soon finds itself stripped of wealth, titles, power and the life of leisure. They are forced into life as that of a down and out family, living in a council house and on social assistance (imagine!). Our heroine, formerly Her Majesty the Queen, now Mrs. Liz Windsor is a housewife unable to deal with a seriously depressed husband who rarely leaves his bed and children who despite lives of privelige, have still failed to find their own ways in life. Mrs. Windsor is thus once again forced into the position of head of the household. This is a work of satire that is so hilarious, so thoughtful and so original that I'm not surprised at Sue Townsend's now world-wide reputation as one of Britain's most important contemporary writers. I recommend it to any Anglophile out there; I also recommend it to the "anti-Anglophiles" as well as both will find much to laugh at
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Summary: Queen and I
Review: I think 'the Queen and I' was one of the most witty stories I have ever read. Although I think you have to know a lot of the Royal family and England to understand most of the jokes: the dress of the Queen Mother, the smoking of Margaret etc. I can recommend this book to everyone who likes to laugh and loves satirical humour. Although the book counts a lot of pages, you do not notice it because you can read this book in one day. I think this book is satirical as well because it is a situation which I think will not happen in the next hundred years. The Royal family can not do any harm to anyone and they are loved by everyone (as we could see during the Golden Jubilee). The story begins with Election Day in England and Jack Barker (an anti-monarchist) wins elections. He bans the Royal family immediately and sends them to a mediocre house in the Midlands. From now one the Royal family has to live like we do. I think it needs a very good writer to write about something like this and like the way she did. That's why I hope to read more books of Sue Townsend in the future.
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Summary: Hilarious and irreverent!
Review: I've had Sue Townsend's books on my shelf for many years now, and at every available opportunity I lend this one to anyone who stops by (as a result, it's now tattered and held together in parts by scotch tape) -- and everyone has agreed with me that it's one of the most laugh-out-loud books we've ever read! Sue Townsend has a brilliant way of giving life to her characters, whether they are actual persons or her own creations. As a former English major, I have a plentiful supply of entertaining yet provocative works, yet this remains one that I return to every so often as an especially enjoyable novel.
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