- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (1 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099278391
- ISBN-13: 978-0099278399
- Product Dimensions: 16.3 x 12.7 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,050,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Continuing the tradition of parodying all things sacred, David Lines's satire rewrites the 1970s hippy handbook "Jonathan Livingston Seagull". This text features a bloated, cynical, grungy pigeon as a hero, who looks not to the skies for inspiration, but to the London Underground.
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Format:Paperback
A parody of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, complete with many pictures of pigeons around the UndergrounD.
It kept me amused me for a while. Which is, pretty much, the point. The photos of pigeons were entertaining, if a little too obviously staged on occasion.
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This Side of Parodies
23 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
I bought this book in York, England in May 0f 1999 and had to read it in one sitting; it has proved its worth and every several months I have looked at it again and told others about it. What is it? On the initial level it is a very cleverly done parody of the pop culture classic Jonathan Livingston Seagull that infested the world circa 1973. Those of us annoyed by the inane insipidnous of the original will enjoy this. Strangely, though, the book would still be owrthwhile even if that Seagull book had never been written. Pigeon works because while the original is closely parodied throughout (including the bird photography, with montages of the hero pigeon on the London Underground), there is a moral message in Pigeon that is NOT the message of the seagull book and actually stands on its own two feet. ought to be a classic, along with such books as Cat-Dependant No More: Learning to Live Cat-Free in a Cat-Filled World.
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