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 Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan - Spike Milligan
Newest Review: ... balls) and it’s easy to lose interest. I found it even harder to make it to the end as Milligan depicts Black Beauty’s entire ... more  ... life in great detail and the only noteworthy parts were a few of the new owners and descriptions of how Black Beauty’s friends passed away.
Even so, there was the odd joke that stood out – and the starting prose was actually quite good: “As soon as I was old enough to eat grass, my mother used to stuff it down my throat until it kept coming out the back. I went six times that day.” Another bit of prose I liked was: “The mistress was good and kind and had a large bank overdraft.”
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Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan
Pages: 128, Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, Virgin Books Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48
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Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan
Pages: 160, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Virgin Books Last Update 27.11.2009 05:48
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Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan - Spike Milligan: A parody that didn't quite make it (470 words)
by - written on 09/03/07 (Very useful, 148 readings)
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Being an avid Spike Milligan fan, I decided to read a not-so-well-known book of his – “Black Beauty According To Spike Milligan”. Milligan’s usual style of writing combines poetry and humour with stream-of-thought consciousness and wickedly realistic plots and I expected that this book would be as good as any other he writes – not true. “Black Beauty…” starts off OK with a poem and a joke and a bit of plot but by the time you get to chapter 17 (they are short chapters) the jokes aren’t really that funny (Black Beauty kicks a lot of people in the balls) and it’s easy to lose interest. I found it even harder to make it to the end as Milligan depicts Black ... Read the complete review
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