- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 1st ed edition (6 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141015284
- ISBN-13: 978-0141015286
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 135,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Featuring spoof newspaper stories from the archives, very silly archaeology and deluded local "characters" from history, this title uses material from the newspaper archives of "The Framley Examiner" - a previous text - to take an irreverent trip down memory lane.
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The history of the whole planet can be clearly seen through the genuine Victorian geological column that stands in the Museum's prehistoric gallery. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The first Framley book, "The Framley Examiner" is, quite simply, brilliant. It's a shame, then, that the authors obviously felt that they had to follow this up. The result, "Historic Framley", just feels forced.
Don't get me wrong - there are some good laughs in it - the "When we were pigs*" exhibition (*other theories available), being a brilliant example, but there isn't enough good material here to justify an entire book - you have to cut through the filler to get to it.
Should you get it? Well, if you've already got the first book, this may well disappoint. On the other hand, it *is* funny, but just not as brilliant as its predicessor. Take it or leave it.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Historic Framley is more consistently funny than the earlier book. The actual articles in the Examiner all revolve around the same joke: that they are incompetently written. This is hilarious up to a point, but the real highlights were always the varied and psychotic advertisements and job offers. Historic Framley is almost entirely made up of that sort of thing, and makes for much more varied, disturbing and funny reading. So maybe it depends what you liked more about the original paper - the one-joke spoof journalism or the spoof adverts. If the latter turns you on - 'Whoft Hospice: not all of our patients come here to die. But they all do. In the end. We're looking for a caring individual with a strong back who understands that life can be short as well as long in this fast-moving, high-turnover business...' - buy this book.
7 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this on the strength of the previous publication from these people, the Framley Examiner, which I bought on the strength of a 2 hour "laugh-fest" at the site. I wasn't disappointed when I bought that book, but I have to say I am with this effort.
It's got the same sort of surreal style as the original, but it goes overboard in many respects, and it can get quite weary to read (the overuse of colours doesn't help). I read it mostly in short bursts, just to get through it, and put it back on my shelf. I've re-read the original book numerous times, but it's going to take some sort of holocaust to get me to re-read Historic Framley.
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