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I have just discovered one of the most hilarious books ever written (like Cook "discovered" Australia and Columbus "discovered" North America and thought it was India). It's called "The Curious Incident of the WMD in Iraq" by Rohan Candappa and is a spoof on Tony Blair -you know the one, British "star" PM.

It starts as if it is written in the voice of said PM: "It is good to have Surprising Facets because it means that there is More To You Than Meets the Eye. This makes you Intriguing and Fascinating. There is More to Me Than Meets The Eye. And I am Intriguing and Fascinating. And that is why Cherry who is my wife married me. To help you understand all this I will draw some pictures. This is a banana (drawing of a banana). This is the same banana but now its skin has been unpeeled: (drawing of an unpeeled banana). And inside the banana skin isn't a banana but there are two grapes, a lychee and a kumquat. This means that there is More To That Banana Than Meets the Eye. And that when you opened it what you discovered was Intriguing and Fascinating. And it also means that you will never look at an unpeeled banana in the same way ever again because It Might Not Be What It Seems" (10).

And it goes on ... Very amusing indeed and my mother also got good value out of it. ISBN is 1-86197-900-2 for anyone interested.

― salexander (salexander), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

I get my laughs from Tim Moore books. Snortingly funny.

I'm not really keen on satirical humour.

― Rumpie, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

That sounds utterly dreadful. Parodies of other books are quite hard to pull off successfully, and to do it whilst lampooning a sitting duck like Blair sounds like a recipe for disaster. Each to their own, though, I suppose.

(disclaimer: I haven't read it, so it could actually *be* the funniest book ever written. I doubt it though)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Initially I too was dubious and thought oh no, not another political satire, but was delightfully proved wrong. It is very clever, witty and somehow also manages to make some very serious comments about Blair and his administration. So perhaps quoting fragments in isolation out of context doesn't do them justice. Feel free to disagree, but only after you've read it!

― salexander (salexander), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

So you wrote it huh?

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

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