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The Pirates! In An Adventure With Napoleon (Hardcover)

by Gideon Defoe (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (8 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 029785108X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0297851080
  • Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 11.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 269,234 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Defoe is still one of the funniest writers around" (THE GLOSS )

"If you have teeeangers who resist the idea of being read to, then leave Gideon Defoe's hilarious The Pirates! book lying around" (Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Times )
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best yet (apart from all the others!), 22 May 2008
By Jodi Swan "yodsteroony" (sussex) - See all my reviews
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He's back. But, as promised, without quite the large quantities of ham we have become accustomed to! Without giving too much of the plot away, it's time for the Pirate Captain to embark on something a little different (in as much as Belgium is a little different to a bag of spoons). New nemise.... nemisess's..... nemi.... foes are found and battled and with Defoe's usual genius levels of imagination we are plunged back into the wonderfully silly world of the pirates. I loved the exchange of letters in the middle and the highly visual style of writing. These books are a real gem and a highlight of my month.
Miss them at your peril. Oh and Im quite fond of the pirate with the red scarf now. He's my favourite.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Has Gideon Defoe gotten lazy?, 2 Jul 2008
By Chappy (London) - See all my reviews
I loved the previous The Pirates! books, and many is the time I've failed to stifle laughs on a busy train into work!
The latest offering in the series is amusing enough, but I can't help feeling Defoe is beginning to run out of ideas. Not much really happens and it isn't all that clever compared to the other "adventures". The ending particularly was an abysmally lazy piece of writing, which was a shame because only a few pages earlier I'd been reduced to tears of laughter at the exchange of letters in the island's newspaper!
Maybe the publishers were hassling Defoe to produce the book as soon as possible and this is the rushed result?
There's nothing wrong with being a one-trick pony, just as long as your one trick remains entertaining.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Highly disappointing, 17 Aug 2008
By R. Chidley (England) - See all my reviews
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[EDITED TO ADD: I suppose 1 star is a bit harsh, so on reflection I'd give it two **. I'd change the review rating, but Amazon is being weird today.]

Having loved the other Pirates! books I bought this with great anticipation and excitement. Sadly, this one has made me question buying any further releases.

You can take this book two ways: either it is a clever post-modern antiplot with a unifying ironic joke on the nature of adventure stories & reader expectation; or it is quite boring and a bit of a let down.

Defoe makes a good start by playing with his well-loved formulaic opening, but afterwards the plot dissolves completely as he works to establish a setting that would make Father Ted's 'Craggy Island' look exciting. There's no roaring, no-one gets run-through, and honestly there isn't any kind of pirating at all. A far cry from the triumphs of '...Scientists' or '...Communists'. It's a sea-story set on land about pirates who do no pirating... then it ends.

This book is so disappointing precisely because we know how good Defoe is, and in this volume the gap is wide.
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3.0 out of 5 stars No ham for the next 99 pages or so . . . a little disappointed!
As a big fan of the easy-to-read franchise, this latest offering is a tad disappointing.

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