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Release Date: 4th Oct 2007Gross laugh-out-loud fun courtesy of Ricky Gervais
Not being funny – I don’t really get Flanimals. I wish I had that sense of humour, but then, that would make me Ricky Gervais – which I’m not. I’m a little worm, but that still doesn’t make me Ricky Gervais.
Speaking of whom, he is preposterously, obscenely, outrageously disgusting and I love him!
This look at more Flanimals is hilarious. The non-stop drivel and endless nonsensical dramatisation of a non-existent species and all its sub-species is riveting from start to finish. I don’t like blugs, hell most of them are creepy and remind me of bugs I don’t like on THIS planet... and I realise that as a worm that might seem a little churlish – but there is nothing worse than a creepy crawly where you don’t want one. I consider myself above Joe Louse and Mary Longlegs.
I can’t quite believe that Gervais was cruel enough to create an uprising of blechlings that manage to destroy all Flanimal life though – even by his harsh and uncompromising standards, annihilating an entire species seems a bit much, even if they had become depressingly difficult to write about... Still, at least he left the way open for another book. When you stop to think about it, that seems quite astute really – if I didn’t know better, I’d swear he’d done it so he could coin it in next Christmas when he brings out another Flanimals book. He wouldn’t do that – would he?
- Feb 2012 -
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone
by
Laini Taylor
Only the best books get to be our Book of the Month
We interview C J Daugherty about Night School
- 10 January 2012