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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63 of 68 people found the following review helpful
Format: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.
Open this book on any page and you'll find invaluable travel tips for the most adventurous traveller - from avoiding the colonic irrigation inducing bidets - to the frank apologies about errors in previous editions:Hotel Jakvekz was mistakenly decsribed as appealing. It is infact 'appalling'. The photos are fantastic as well.
Buy it. Just don't go there.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format: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
Format: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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Laugh out loud stuff
Warning: Don't read this book in the company of others! You will laugh out loud, belly laughs, and not be able to stop, which will be incredibly annoying to others around you. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. S. A. Dunning
Molvania Land of My Dreams
This sideways looks at a surreal former eastern block country had me in fits of giggles.
I bought a copy for my much travelled friend and her response fantastic. Read more
I bought a copy for my much travelled friend and her response fantastic. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Sail-Mutt
A very clever book
I stumbled across "Molvania" by accident, when searching for information about the real-life country Moldavia (to make a long story short, I saw "Ghostbusters II" and went away to... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Andrew Norris
one-trick pony
I bought this book partly because I loved the idea, partly because of the reviews in Amazon. In retrospect, I think that was a mistake. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Jaime Garcia
Epic...
This book was funny from cover to cover.
I was sad it didn't mention Zlad though :(
I was sad it didn't mention Zlad though :(
Published 19 months ago by AC
Taking off guide books
This is a brilliant satire of those thousands of guides that are a "must-read" for today's traveller. Read more
Published 22 months ago by SageofHolmesChapel
You'll never read Lonely Planet without a grin again (I mean, if you...
This is the first of Jetlag parody travel guides. It's set in a fictious country in Eastern Europe - the obvious prototype is Hungary, but it contains numerous reminiscences of... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Printul Noptilor
A good laugh
It's good stuff, it's creative and amusing. Great travel reading. Who could miss entrail soup at Nenja Olgja's?
Published on 22 Jan 2010 by A. Smith
Actually, this is a piece of sophisticated humour
The originality and ingenuity is of a high level. This book can bring you to a roar with laughter.
Published on 19 Sep 2009 by G. J. Vandersluis
Laugh out loud
First picked up this book whilst in the waiting room of my dentist and boy did it take away the pain! Finally tracked down a 2nd hand copy on Amazon and I can't put it down. Read more
Published on 13 July 2009 by P. Saville
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