Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780330322201
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
ISBN: 0330322206
Label: Pan Books
Manufacturer: Pan Books
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: October 23, 1992
Publisher: Pan Books
Studio: Pan Books

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Rating: - Entertaining, but slight
This is an excellent little humourous dictionary of things that don't actually have names, but really should (like those corrugated bits of flesh you get round your ankles from wearing too-tight socks). Good fun, and Douglas Adams fans will find lots of great jokes within, just be aware that by it's very nature this is the sort of book you'll pull off of the shelf and randomly flick through for 5 minutes from time to time, rather than something you'll sit down and read from cover to cover. Great ... Read More

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Rating: - Disappointing
I was expecting something readible, and entertaining. I would advise anyone considering buying this book to buy Salmon of Doubt instead. It is important to note that this is not a proper book, it's a dictionary. It follows this format:

-name of obscure town-: -obscure meaning for 'word' aka obscure town-

1 star, not worth the effort.

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Rating: - Pure Genius!
What a fantastic book - what a brilliant concept. Hundreds of words simply wasting their time hanging around on signposts. Hundreds of objects, situations, states of mind etc. for which there are no words in common use.

Two quick examples...

Have you ever walked along a street, only to encounter someone coming in the opposite direction, at which point you engage in a little dance that involves both of you skipping from side to side, interspersed with apologies? You have? Droitwich! ... Read More

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Rating: - Random, hilarious...the best book in the world.
Douglas Adams has already become famous with the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy with it's really random approach to the world in his classic sci-fi humour. In the Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas teams up with John LLoyd to make the ultimate in random and true humour. If things that are funny becasue they're true are you thing, then you will instantly fall in love with this book. There is not a single page where there isn't at least one word that will set you bursting out with laughter. All words are place ... Read More

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Rating: - This book had me helpless with laughter
A wonderful concept. Douglas Adams and John Lloyd used actual place names from the UK and beyond, and then assigned meanings to them for situations and descriptions of things that don't have a word in the English Language.

That descrition doesn't do it justice really, but a quick read of a few of the definitions at my local book shop had me convinced (You'll be lucky to find it at a local bookshop these days, so buy it here).

I'm a major fan of all of Douglas Adams work, and this ranks ... Read More

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