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Ricky Gervais
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Pages: 96 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0571220770
Pub: Faber and Faber
Pub date: 2004-10-07
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4479
Reader Reviews:
Get your kid reading!! (5/6 people found this helpful)
My son was always hard work when it came to reading, he's 9 and books were either too young or too old for him. Then I bought him Flanimals...I am proud to say he now spends hours sitting reading the books (I bought the other two too) and laughing to himself.
If you want your kids to develop a love of reading you've got to get a subject that appeals to them..Flanimals does this by the bucketload!
Utterly hilarious! (3/3 people found this helpful)
Absolutely brilliant!!
I have been meaning to get this book for the past few years, now finally I have done! It's hysterically funny, you really need to appreciate silly slapstick humour!
Certainly not just for kids - I'm in my 20s and I can't wait to show it to my mum at the weekend, she will love it!
I'm not keen on Gervais as an actor, but as a writer he is fantastic!!
Can't wait to get all the other Flanimals books now!
absolute brilliance (2/4 people found this helpful)
This book is probably one of the best books i have read. Its a little short but still it is packed with flanimalology.
Ever heard of the frappled humpdumbler or the offledermis, you will after youve read this great book.
Flanimology enters the mainstream. (7/8 people found this helpful)
This is a wonderful book. It finally introduces the study of Flanimals to the public and provides some excellent health advice too (eg. what not to say when studying larval Mernimblers).
Just like contempory science, Flanimological terms come under fire as being "too complicated" or else otherwise unsuitable. What they fail to realise is that the binomial names for Flanimals are recognisable the world over, and helps to avoid confusion during international Flanimology conferences. Some suggest dirty double meanings, but if you going to associate innocent flatin derivatives with such things, then you must have a dirty mind to begin with.
Flanimals is a spotter's guide, first and foremost, and provides important background information to allow new Flanimal watchers to go out into the world to safely and knowledgeably observe these creatures in the wild. An unusual critisism of the book is that it contains no story. Do bird-watching guides have plot? Do naturalist textbooks have character development?
Professor Gervais Mfl is truly a man of many talents. A writer, and actor, and now a Flanimologist. With Dr Steen Bfl at his side, we can expect many more Flanimal discoveries in the near future, and detailed flanatomical diagrams to boot.
Brilliant Humourous and fun (1/3 people found this helpful)
I would like to say to all the rewiewers who are not laughing at flanimals you need a certain silly sense of humour to find it funny. It is to these people that this book is aimed so there is no point writing bad reviews if you do not fit into the silly humour category. Now onto the book.
It is the best funny book without a storyline EVER!!! My friend comes over for a sleepover. What do we do? do we go on computer games, watch TV or do we read flanimals for the 50 billionth time? We read flanimals for the 50 billionth time. its that good. If you won't take my word for it, look at all the reviewers' reviews with the same sense of humour as me. It speaks for itself.
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