- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Books; New edition edition (1 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843542323
- ISBN-13: 978-1843542322
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 341,150 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bill Bryson
'Brilliantly original and very, very funny.’
Ben Schott
‘This book took me straight back to my holiday in Molvania: I intend to sue.’
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62 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It actually hurts to read this book,
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This review is from: Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (Jetlag Travel Guide) (Paperback)
Cynical, unreconstructed, venomous and decidedly un-PC. And that's just me. Having endured years of, admittedly enjoyable, Lonely Planet and Rough Guide- guided travel, the jetlag series has come at exactly the right time for me and anyone else vaguely embarassed about how seriously they take Tony Wheeler and his imitators. Whilst other forthcoming books in the series include Surviving Moustachistan, and Getting Round the Tofu islands, Molvania is the first and is hilariously funny. Buy it. Just don't go there.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it. Now....Why haven't you bought it yet?,
This review is from: Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (Jetlag Travel Guide) (Paperback)
This was in the "Bestselling Non-fiction" section of a book shop - I still wonder whether the staff put it there because they didn't get the joke, or because they did. Once you've read even the inside cover of this book, the parody becomes plainly (and wonderfully) obvious.Molvania is a land where the trams manage to run (for certain values of 'run') on gas, where the encroaching McDonalds' products must by law contain 12% local cabbage (don't ask about the milkshakes), and where the local language carries a health warning in case of laryngeal damage. A wonderful book, with several more like it planned - they should be worth waiting for.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
2 cheers for Molvania,
By A Customer
This review is from: Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (Jetlag Travel Guide) (Paperback)
As a parody of a travel book, it works very well, although the joke tends to wear a bit thin the further you get into the book. It would have had a stronger foundation and been funnier if the authors had concentrated more on the oddities of a life in post-communist Eastern Europe. As it was, some of the inconsistencies and inaccuracies to do with the real world were simply irritating. This book made me laugh out loud, but Ray Bradbury's Why Come to Slaka?, a parody of communist-era travel books, made me cry with laughter.
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