Product Description

A much loved classic of fantasy literature written by a grumpy, pipe smoking don in a smelly tweedy jacket being turned into a massive worldwide cinema hit. Where have we seen that before? Lord of the Rings was, of course, immense when it got the Hollywood treatment. Narnia will match it. We sold more than 300,000 copies of BORED OF THE RINGS and followed this 160,000 sales of two associated Tolkien parodies. Now Mike Gerber moves on from his 500,000 copy BARRY TROTTER sucess to line up the next big target.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51596 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Michael Gerber is an American humour writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, The Wall Street Journal and on Saturday Night Live. His BARRY TROTTER books were Sunday Times Best sellers.

Customer Reviews

____ Wonderful!
The Chronicles of Blarnia is full of low-brow jokes, toilet humour and childish asides. None of this prevents it from being one of the funniest things I've ever read - indeed, I just finished it and have been chuckling noisily for hours.

Okay, some of the parody elements are particularly moronic - take Asthma the Messianic house-cat, the overweight Wide Witch or young Ed with his overweight-ladies fixation - but Michael Gerber always follows a bad gag with a fantastic one. What's most surprising is that the joke's impact is sustained throughout. And when Gerber repeats a joke he usually follows it with a knowing wink.

He may have ruined the recent film for me (I'll have this fresher in mind than C.S. Lewis' novel), but at least I got a fun read out of it. Hysterical, and hugely recommended.

Brilliant
A parody needs to be witty and funny coupled with atleast a certain level of interlect, and this book clearly achieves all of these things. Some of the mickey takes on parts of the story are genius, and serve to create a very readable and humerous novel.

Amusing but not excellent
I bought this on the back of the "Barry Trotter" series which were hilarious.

I was a little disppointed, the jokes are not as numerous and not always that funny. I liked the kids' characters but some parts of the book just aren't that good.