Advantages: Extremely funny
Disadvantages: Make sure you buy the longer version

..."The Meaning of Liff" was co-written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, and was the result of a remembered childhood game, giving definitions to place names. Such jokes were often found in children's books, but the difference here is that the pair were rarely interested in the sound of the word itself - merely in identifying humorous but unnamed concepts with which we are all familiar, and nailing them down with a word that sounds likely. Thus the experience of wanting to go the toilet but being unable because you can't decide which book to bring is defined as Great Wakering. The book works because Adams and Lloyd are both enormously perceptive in their concepts and are able to use their definitions to great satirical effect. The result is an oddity, but an extremely funny one.... Read review

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Advantages: A good read
Disadvantages: Too much legal jargon

...I’ve read 4 or 5 of John Grisham’s books, and the more I read the more I like his style of writing. Being a lawyer himself, the books can go a little overboard on the laws of America, but then it does help to understand some of the intricacies of the stories. The two main characters in the book are Sam Cayhall and Adam Hall. Sam Cayhall ^^^^^^^^^^^ Sam is a 70 year old man who is on Death Row in Mississippi for killing 2 Jewish boys in a bombing in the 1960s. He was a member of the Klu Klux Klan and carried out the bombing as a vendetta against the Jews, who were sympathetic to the cause of the Blacks in the Deep South. There was a whole series of bombings, but he was only convicted of the one which killed the boys and it took 3 trials to convict him even then. Adam Hall ^^^^^^^^^^ Adam is a newly qualified lawyer who takes on Sam... Read review

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Advantages: Their back and the first episode is a classic.
Disadvantages: The quality starts to slip as the series progresses.

...of extreme sports videos, tacky daytime shows and satirical comedies. Living in the Eighties is a spoof of the "1900 House" programme where a family from the year 2000 has to live like a family from the nineties. This involves them dressing in garish clothes and listening to dire music. It probably had the funniest line of the programme, "John the Father, works on Wall Street, which means for breakfast he snorts a line of cocaine and washes it down with champagne. Then he drives off to work in his Sinclair C5" The show has already been on E4 which is where I've seen it and they are repeating it again. In the first episode Adam & Joe were on top form. Unfortunatly this doesn't quite continue for the rest of the series. Still it's good to see them again. The Adam & Joe Show C4 Wednesday nights at 23.05pm E4 (analogue and digital channel... Read review

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Advantages: Bitesize entries that can be read over time.
Disadvantages: You'll never be able to remember the words!

...locales around the globe,) Adams gives us a set of words to which the definitions can be attached. Thus we have such things as: 'Quabbs' - The substances which emerge when you squeeze a blackhead. 'Whassets' - Business cards in your wallet belonging to someone whom you have no recollection of meeting. and "Kalami" - The ancient Eastern art of being able to fold road-maps properly. Aside from spotting all your best-loved experiences, the book offers a unique insight into the mind of Adams and co-writer John Lloyd; what makes them tick, what they notice about the world, and all the tiny nuances in life which they pick up on that the average person simply doesn't see. Be warned, though, it is a very short book, and there is an extended version available. ("The Deeper Meaning of Liff," which contains this book PLUS a load of new definitions... Read review

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