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A review by vathek
Robin Hood According to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
3.0
On one hand, the book made me laugh out loud in several places, but in others I just had to move on as it was totally incomprehensible.
I'm well aware of the Goon Show style humour, but in several places, characters switch places from one sentence to another.
The idea of Robin Hood ticking into Jam Sandwiches and Big Macs is funny, but by the end of it it's Jam Sandwiches all the way down, some chapters are just bunch of one-liners nailed together, obviously lifted from contemporary jokes.
Starts off stronger, but you get the impression that by the end Milligan had exhausted his ideas on the subject and was forced to waffle on for the sake of word count.
I'm well aware of the Goon Show style humour, but in several places, characters switch places from one sentence to another.
The idea of Robin Hood ticking into Jam Sandwiches and Big Macs is funny, but by the end of it it's Jam Sandwiches all the way down, some chapters are just bunch of one-liners nailed together, obviously lifted from contemporary jokes.
Starts off stronger, but you get the impression that by the end Milligan had exhausted his ideas on the subject and was forced to waffle on for the sake of word count.