Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington

Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington
by Karl Pilkington

Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington
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Author: Karl Pilkington
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-29
ISBN: 0756636353
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: DK ADULT

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Book Review: Hilarious
Summary: 4 Stars

I'd first heard of Karl when I got the Ricky Gervais podcast from a friend for my birthday. His book comes across just like he does on the podcasts. It's a collection of his travels around the world from his Parents' house to Los Angeles to Ibiza. Some are written in story format, others as journal entries and sprinkled liberally throughout are poems and comic strips of "friend-of-friend" tales.

It is a mix of non-sequitur and absurdism. It's as if Karl stops thinking after the first thought that crosses his brain. Sure, I might have had the same thought, "hey, if my head were on backward, I'd be able to face the audience if I were a pianist." But then, being normal, I would follow that thought up with all the other side effects of having my head on backward.

Pilkington, however, does not move past the first thought of childlike wonderment of having his head on backward and doesn't seem to realize there is anything much past that initial thought. The end result is absolute hilarity.

Summary of Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The words of Karl Pilkington

A collection of baffling, hilarious, infuriating yet curiously compelling insights and anecdotes, diary entries, poems, "true" facts, cartoons, and assorted witterings concerning travel from the mind of Karl Pilkington, the unlikely star of the Ricky Gervais Show, the World's funniest and most successful podcast.

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