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""In format and page layout, this inspired send-up of a travel guide looks exactly like the real thing, and it displays an acute feel for all the cliches of the genre." --"New Yorker "on" Molvania
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Molvania is just north of Bulgaria and downwind from Chernobyl. The funniestbook about baby names you will ever read: every name available from Europeanrepublic Molvania, birthplace of the polka and whooping cough. This book is fullof traditional baby names from Molvania and their meanings. Are you stuck onwhat to call you new pride and joy? How about: BRUZVYLIZ - Bruce WillisJINKZTA - UnluckyMAYKUPPUTYANA - Fun Girl (literally - Heavily made-up prostitute')There are hundreds of unique and meaningful names for any new baby. You'resure to be the envy of all the other mums with a Molvanian baby name!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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"Molvanian Baby Names" is an interesting follow-up to the trilogy of Jetlag Travel Guides (which are, in order, "Molvania", "Phaic Tan" and "San Sombrero"). This book returns to where it all began - in the squalid, disreputable former Soviet satellite of Molvania, but this time, what little of Molvanian culture does exist is put under the microscope and examined through the various names popular in Molvania.
This book is a good read, but it isn't one to be read cover-to-cover. After a while, the lengthy list of names will get boring, and it's probably best to put it down and pick it up again later. The jokes are good, don't get me wrong, but unlike "Molvania", the format does not allow the writers to be as creative as they'd like.
It would be interesting if this book were followed up with "Traditional Phaic Tanese Names" and "Traditional San Sombreran Names" to connect with the other two books in the series, though I have my doubts that this will happen. As I have said, this book is a great read, but not as good a wheeze as its predecessors, and the writers may struggle to come up with a follow-up as equally good, if not better, than this.
This book is a good read, but it isn't one to be read cover-to-cover. After a while, the lengthy list of names will get boring, and it's probably best to put it down and pick it up again later. The jokes are good, don't get me wrong, but unlike "Molvania", the format does not allow the writers to be as creative as they'd like.
It would be interesting if this book were followed up with "Traditional Phaic Tanese Names" and "Traditional San Sombreran Names" to connect with the other two books in the series, though I have my doubts that this will happen. As I have said, this book is a great read, but not as good a wheeze as its predecessors, and the writers may struggle to come up with a follow-up as equally good, if not better, than this.
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Call them Tihkorajkrazsy
19 Aug 2011
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Book itself is 4 starts at best, but the authors deserve 6 stars for living up to the ideals of St Votridykul, patron saint of the politically incorrect.
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Peter's out
6 Dec 2011
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Not nearly as good as the three guides. This book only works if you like the premise that there might be a baby name for "Person without a chin" and so on, for dozens of pages.
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