Product Description

Spike Milligan's first novel bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19023 in Books
• Published on: 1973-01-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but has since become famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992.

Customer Reviews

The funniest book ever written
Here's a short story. In 1963 I was on a military Aircraft flying to South America from England. The plane was full of soldiers going to British Guiana. It was a long flight. So to pass the time I went up to the front and read this book through the address system. The pilots could hear this as well. So much laughter went on that we nearly crashed onto the runway in Gander Newfoundland. I was asked very nicely not to continue since it was too dangerous to the safety of the flight. But so funny is the book that all the passengers prevailed upon me to keep on going. I sware that this is a true story. This is simply the very funniest book ever written, and thereby one of the most dangerous. Cheers: Private Grahame Rhodes 216. Late of the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment.

Classic Milligan has lost none of it's spark
I read this for the first time when I was 15, and coming back to it I find that I'd forgotten how easy it is to lose yourself in the mad world of Milligan. Only an idiot would be concerned with the lack of plot in a book that bursts with energy and ideas like this does. Oh, and it's cripplingly funny too

It is meant to be funny, not precise!
Neil Wellman's desperate clichés (replete with spelling and grammatical errors) about Spike's 'illness' do nothing to aid prospective readers. The whole book is unhinged, and is meant to be so. The sustained comic brilliance is reason enough to read this book, the hair-spltters who winge about the plot should stick with Martin Amis and leave Milligan for those who appreciate him.