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'Hilarious. Destined to become a classic of pirate comic fiction' ----Eric Idle
`Silly, surreal and absolutely and utterly hilarious ... possibly the funniest book I've ever read. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face' ----Image
`Funny and entertaining'
----Independent
`Gideon Defoe definitively puts the "Ho ho!" - and, indeed, the "Yo!" - into pirating' ----Caitlin Moran
`Silly, surreal and absolutely and utterly hilarious ... possibly the funniest book I've ever read. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face' ----Image
`Funny and entertaining'
----Independent
`Gideon Defoe definitively puts the "Ho ho!" - and, indeed, the "Yo!" - into pirating' ----Caitlin Moran
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It's come to my attention that the old girl's a little bit past her best. And I can hardly maintain my reputation as a terror of the high seas with bits falling off the boat all the time, can I? The Pirate Captain is in trouble. Eager to appease his crew with a boat that has a functioning mast, fewer holes and cannons that actually fire, he splashes out on the fancy new Lovely Emma, spending six thousand doubloons he doesn't have. Finding themselves in debt to the beautiful but deadly Cutlass Liz - or the Butcher of Barbados, as she's otherwise known - the pirates need to raise some money fast. In a desperate race against time, our heroes embark on an adventure that will take them from the shores of Nantucket to the bright lights of Las Vegas, to the ends of the earth in search of a mythical white whale, and even, perhaps, into the dark depths of madness. But hopefully they'll be home in time for tea.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
At the end of The Pirates! in an Adventure with Moby Dick, there are ten pages of other (pretend) titles by the same author, and I love this book so much that I would happily read every single one of them. I'm sure The Pirates! in an Adventure with Heavy Petting and The Pirates! in an Adventure with a Steep Hill would sell especially well.
Enough about the other books, let's look at this one :) In the interests of full disclosure, I haven't read Moby Dick (the proper book) yet, although I did buy it last week. You don't really need it to understand this book though, just as long as you know the very basic summary - Ahab is Captain obsessed with hunting a great white whale that once bit his leg off. Wow, that was hard, wasn't it?
The recent film actually encompasses this book as well, so the trailer suddenly makes a lot more sense. Here, the Pirate Captain suddenly realises that their ship is looking a bit decrepit, so they head off to Cutlass Liz to get a shiny new one, The Lovely Emma. Unfortunately they can't quite afford to pay her just yet so they take on a contract for Ahab to eliminate that famous white whale.
'He looked at his second-in-command seriously. "I'm making a list of when it's acceptable for a pirate to cry."
"That sounds very important, Captain," said the pirate with a scarf, fiddling axiously with his eye-patch.
"So far I've got: one - when holding a seagull covered in oil. Two - when singing a shanty that reminds him of orphans. Three - when confronted by the unremitting loneliness of the human condition. Four - chops. I've just written the word 'chops.' Not really sure where I was going with that one. Any ideas?"'
Just like the other books, ...with Moby Dick has an awesome sense of humour that mixes silly slapstick with subtle innuendo to produce one of the funniest books I've read all year. I also love the informative footnotes that provide fun facts, like the origination of the phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' or that it is suspected whales use the magnetic field of the Earth for navigation - that's why so many whales are beached at places where there is an anomaly in the Earth's magnetic field. I did run off to check the facts so I didn't look like a complete moron after this post went up, but thankfully they are all true!
These books are just good fun. They're tiny, but I could happily read them over and over and I doubt they'd ever get stale. I've just done a quick Google, and apparently Gideon Defoe is in talks with Aardman Animation to turn the last two books into a movie as well. I know, I'm raving and I'm sorry. I'll stop when you finally cave in and buy a copy :)
Enough about the other books, let's look at this one :) In the interests of full disclosure, I haven't read Moby Dick (the proper book) yet, although I did buy it last week. You don't really need it to understand this book though, just as long as you know the very basic summary - Ahab is Captain obsessed with hunting a great white whale that once bit his leg off. Wow, that was hard, wasn't it?
The recent film actually encompasses this book as well, so the trailer suddenly makes a lot more sense. Here, the Pirate Captain suddenly realises that their ship is looking a bit decrepit, so they head off to Cutlass Liz to get a shiny new one, The Lovely Emma. Unfortunately they can't quite afford to pay her just yet so they take on a contract for Ahab to eliminate that famous white whale.
'He looked at his second-in-command seriously. "I'm making a list of when it's acceptable for a pirate to cry."
"That sounds very important, Captain," said the pirate with a scarf, fiddling axiously with his eye-patch.
"So far I've got: one - when holding a seagull covered in oil. Two - when singing a shanty that reminds him of orphans. Three - when confronted by the unremitting loneliness of the human condition. Four - chops. I've just written the word 'chops.' Not really sure where I was going with that one. Any ideas?"'
Just like the other books, ...with Moby Dick has an awesome sense of humour that mixes silly slapstick with subtle innuendo to produce one of the funniest books I've read all year. I also love the informative footnotes that provide fun facts, like the origination of the phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' or that it is suspected whales use the magnetic field of the Earth for navigation - that's why so many whales are beached at places where there is an anomaly in the Earth's magnetic field. I did run off to check the facts so I didn't look like a complete moron after this post went up, but thankfully they are all true!
These books are just good fun. They're tiny, but I could happily read them over and over and I doubt they'd ever get stale. I've just done a quick Google, and apparently Gideon Defoe is in talks with Aardman Animation to turn the last two books into a movie as well. I know, I'm raving and I'm sorry. I'll stop when you finally cave in and buy a copy :)
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love the Pirates! books and was looking at purchasing more having re-read Scientists and Whaling. I looked at this one thinking it was a new title and then read the blurb - it appears to be exactly the same book as Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling.
So, still a brilliant laugh-out-loud read but, I imagine, not so much if you have already read whaling...
So, still a brilliant laugh-out-loud read but, I imagine, not so much if you have already read whaling...
Format:Paperback
Having read the rave reviews of both The Pirates! series and the Ardman film, the appearance, it seemed as if the opportunity to download this book as a Kindle Daily Deal was an opportunity that couldn't be wasted. The book itself is very short, taking just over an hour to read, but even so, my overwhelming feeling by the end was why I had wasted even that short space of my life?
Reviewers have described this as hilariously silly. Silly, yes, I can't disagree. Hilarious? I don't think I even raised a smile, let alone a chuckle or (I wish!) a laugh. Humour is very personal, I know, but I have to say that even if I don't find a book funny, I can usually see why some people do. On this occasion, I just couldn't.
That maybe because the target audience are 9-12 year old children, and normally I wouldn't bother reviewing, even though, as a primary teacher, I do read (and enjoy) a fair few books aimed at this age group. However, I was assured by reviewers that adults would enjoy the "subtle" humour. I have to say the subtlety passed me by (and, yes, I have read Moby Dick - brilliant book). Rather, I felt as if I'd been hit in the face with a rather wet fish - or is it ham? - with the author's continued heavy handed efforts?
All in all, I have to say that this ranks amongst those books I enjoyed the least, leaving me somewhat (completely!) mystified as to why there are so many 4/5 star reviews.
Reviewers have described this as hilariously silly. Silly, yes, I can't disagree. Hilarious? I don't think I even raised a smile, let alone a chuckle or (I wish!) a laugh. Humour is very personal, I know, but I have to say that even if I don't find a book funny, I can usually see why some people do. On this occasion, I just couldn't.
That maybe because the target audience are 9-12 year old children, and normally I wouldn't bother reviewing, even though, as a primary teacher, I do read (and enjoy) a fair few books aimed at this age group. However, I was assured by reviewers that adults would enjoy the "subtle" humour. I have to say the subtlety passed me by (and, yes, I have read Moby Dick - brilliant book). Rather, I felt as if I'd been hit in the face with a rather wet fish - or is it ham? - with the author's continued heavy handed efforts?
All in all, I have to say that this ranks amongst those books I enjoyed the least, leaving me somewhat (completely!) mystified as to why there are so many 4/5 star reviews.
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