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This book is cooler that David Hasselhoff in a room full of otters. --Popbitch.com

Boyish satire… boyish humour abounds --The Big Issue

The Gulliver's Travels for today's world --The Gardners Gazette

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It was my 18th birthday when I chanced upon Harrison Dextrose's The Lost Incompetent: a Bible for the Inept Traveller, little knowing that it would one day lead me to kill a man with a dead penguin... Inspired by explorer Harrison Dextrose s book a curmudgeonly account of travels through unfashionable lands in search of a lost drinking partner and Suzy Goodenough s carnal delights as the prize, Alexander Grey rolls off his sofa to follow in the acclaimed man s footsteps. This is no usual travel text, involving poodle-farming, the Frihedhag sisters, wilful consumerism, an unwanted but undaunted sidekick, one too many rodents and the 24-hour Iditamush sled race, starring a sausage dog. And along the way, Alexander may, or may not, help to save the world. It s that kind of a trip.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 554 KB
Publisher: Legend Press (17 May 2010)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B003XVYELE
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #69,394 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A real gem. You will laugh. A lot, 6 May 2008

Laura Gahan (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In the Footsteps of Harrison Dextrose (Paperback)

I picked this up not knowing a thing about it, but it had a great quote from Popbitch on the cover - plus I loved the author's previous work 'Dalek I Loved You.'

An intriguing opening line, I was hooked from the start. Beware reading this in public if you are of a sensitive disposition - you will laugh out loud. A lot. I can't remember any other book doing this apart from `Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' - which this book has echoes of. With shades of `Gulliver's Travels'. Plus a hint of Bill Bryson. And - is that a gag from `Withnail and I' thrown in there?

You don't quite know whether to love/hate/feel very sorry for the main character Alex, but you are instantly drawn into his quest and his strange world of midgets and Freidhags - you are with him every step of the journey.

In a world which is kind of like ours and kind of not, there are parodies of many aspects of our culture and different countries. But it never drags, romping on though sled dog races and innumerable challenges to the final scene, which will definitely leave you wanting more.

This author has a very strange mind! It's definitely not fantasy, it's not a travel book, its not science fiction - it really is a one off gem, which I was despondent to have to put down when I'd finished. Bring on the sequel!

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5.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining read, 24 Jun 2008

L. A. Duddell "Dudds" (The chilly North East of England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In the Footsteps of Harrison Dextrose (Paperback)

In the Footsteps of.... is one of the most entertaining and funny books I've read since finishing my last Douglas Adams.

What kind of mind can imagine, let alone scribe (er... type), such a fantastic and continually witty story?

I ACTUALLY laughed out loud - yes, really - and in public. How shameful and un-british.

If you have a sense of humour and an imagination read this. If you don't then don't.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly bonkers, 23 Jun 2008

N. Beards "whobird" (England) - See all my reviews
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Having read Dalek I Loved You, I was keen to read anything written by Nick Griffiths and ITFOHD didn't disappoint.
This book completely appealed to my sense of the absurd. It's a great adventure and the central character Alexander is nerdy yet charming. The situations and places he finds himself in and the characters he meets along the way come pouring out of the mind of one of the most imaginative and original writers I have come across in a long time.
Definitely buy this book. You will love it. It will make you feel good!

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