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7 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A wasted opportunity., 28 Nov 2003

By	"bloiff" - See all my reviews

Never before have I waited with breath so baited, only to have every dream, hope and wish crushed. This book is nothing of what I had heard. The prose is uninspired, and lend the book a pompous and smug air, not unlike that Jamiroquai Rowling what writes kids books except treats the kids like idiots incapable of keeping a single thoughts in their head. Except this is worse; the witless and insipid text positively inspires vomiting (projectile) from every reader, sucking out the very essence of what makes a good read and replacing your heart with a heavy grey twilight. I do not recommend buying this.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Soulless (like yer ma), 4 Dec 2003

By	"usagi-sauce" - See all my reviews

When I was a little boy there was nothing more fulfilling than heaving down the Oxford English Dictionary and looking for dirty words like "tosser" and "intercourse" nestling among the clean and obscure ones. To contradict myself, it was never all that much fun and I always just ended up looking for really strange words like the ones they had on Call My Bluff (I was a lonely child) but this book just kicks my idealised memories in the teeth.

The definitions are accurate and complete, I can't deny this. But the writing is so horribly dry I start to think I may in fact be not just dead but dead in a horribly dull way. Where's the fun looking for dirty words when they're all right there? Nobody who had a childhood needs a dictionary to know what a knob-gobbler is. We don't need to be told how we grew up.

The commentary, editor's notes and other extraneous material might have saved the book if it weren't basically conceived as a complete and unabridged volume of filler material. I could only recommend this book to a person who was raised in a glass tube and/or cupboard, as material for his false memories so he can pose as a healthy human rather than a rattling husk hiding a cavernous, agonised soul.

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4.0 out of 5 stars There are some weird people out there!, 17 Dec 2003

By	Marcello Cipriani (Wales) - See all my reviews

I own this book and can honestly say the negative reviews can only have been written by people who (a) don't have it, or (b) are utterly devoid of any sense of humour.

OK it isn't a book that provokes belly laughs from page one, but it *is* very funny and is exactly what it says it is - a slang dictionary. I've sent copies to several of my friends as Christmas presents and I'm sure they will find it just as funny as I do.

I suppose it would appeal to people over 25 more than your average child, but so what. I say if you don't have a sense of humour - don't buy the book. If you *do* then you'll love it!