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Law of the Playground: A Puerile and Disturbing Dictionary of Playground Insults and Games | 
| Author: Jonathan Blyth
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 24830
Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0091900301
Dewey Decimal Number: 817
EAN: 9780091900304
ASIN: 0091900301
Publication Date: September 2, 2004
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 It wasn't what I was expecting September 11, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was kind of hoping for a series of funny, interesting or weird story's from people's school days, not necessarily celebritey's.
I was quite suprised that it wasn't anything like the TV show. Although the TV show is fantastic, this book isn't so good.
The book is written with the games, insults or whatever written in an alphabetical order, which is fair enough, but it could have been done better.
If you are hoping for a written version of the TV show, this is not it. As a book in its own right it's not bad, but it is aimed at the 30+ group, I'd say.
Law of the playground July 19, 2008
I laughed until I cried, mentally ticking off all the pranks/jokes/violence inflicted on my classmates & myself. I have had to hide my copy somewhere very safe out of fear that my 11 year old would find out just what the comments of 'lively' on my school reports really alluded to. This is a must for anyone who has ever been to school & a waste of time for those that haven't because you wouldn't understand what the words meant...
A thumpin' good read March 2, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is simply chuffing great. It's funnier than a broken pit pony and will give you more laughs than you're ever likely to find at a comedy night down at the Huddersfield Emporium. Buy it now.And you know what the icing on the cake is? Jimmy Carr is NOT in it. Not ONCE. That, for me, is the mark of true perfection.
Awfully amusing July 28, 2005
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
I read this and split my britches. My braces snapped. I laughed, I cried, I belmed furiously. I beabled at least three times.Buy it for friends, for family, give it to strangers. It's that good.
Authoritative and definitive April 20, 2005
14 out of 28 found this review helpful
A compendious tome, epic in scope but intimate in detail, exploring the intricacies of its delicate subject matter with the methodical precision of a spade-fisted belmer torturing a kitten, this book has affected me more than any other literary work. Except perhaps Asterix and the Big Fight. But whereas Goscinny and Uderzo's magnum opus relied on slapstick absurdist humour and fat jokes, Blyth employs the more subtle tools of slapstick absurdist humour and fat jokes. At times the parables within this book are so self-revelatory that they make you weep, but Blyth always shows that even most horrifying episodes of puerile, venal cruelty have an uplifting, even hilarious aspect. Namely that they happened to someone else. Buy this book, or bleakly beable forever against the dying of the light.
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