The Pirates!
In an Adventure With Communists
by Gideon Defoe
I love a laugh (don’t we all) and in this third entry in the popular The Pirates series there are quite a few to be
had. It’s a simple idea like all the best ones that relies on anachronisms and absurdity and works very well. We
all know that pirates per se weren’t around in the early 19th century, and neither was Wagner’s Ring Cycle being
performed, and what about Karl Marx? But who cares when it is as much fun as this. Join the Pirate Captain and
his vaguely described crew (the pirate with a scarf, the pirate with gout, the pirate with a nut allergy etc)
along with Jennifer a girl, as they try to get to the bottom of the appeal of Communism and have a good time into
the bargain.
This is a small book, rather nicely illustrated in the right places (there is even a puzzle maze to do involving
Marx’s beard) and containing the same sort of clean but irrepressible humor as something like Monty Python or The
Goodies. Trying to describe what it is about is rather pointless as although there is a plot, the whole point of
reading it is to have a good laugh. I did, and so probably will you. |
The Book |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Orion) |
14 September 2006 |
Hardback |
0297848674 |
Humor/Historical -1840 -London and Paris |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2006 |
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