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Title: Cunning: The Blackadder Programme Guide by Chris Howarth, Steve Lyons ISBN: 0-7535-0447-2 Publisher: Virgin Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Guide To Blackadder
Comment: Blackadder, in its various incarnatios, is without a doubt THE funniest TV show of all time. This book tries to give a complete episode guide, background information, and other trivia in one small paperback. I was very suprised to find that it actually succeeds, and then some. The book is written in such a way, that everything you need to know can be found almost instantly, without an index. The list of information in here is too vast to summarize, so I'll just say BUY THIS BOOK NOW!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Really REALLY bad...
Comment: The Blackadder series is by far and away one of the best if not THE best British comedy's of all time. That is why it's so unfortunate that there is little to no good written material or satisfacory guides to it.
Out of the two this books available about the Blackadder series this one is by far the worst.
The authors seem to know exactly what to do wrong and stick to that formula throughout the book. They discuss people and shows surrounding the series but one cannot help but feel that there is too little of a connection to the Blackadder series. They give NO information about the production of the shows as some great guides like Zicree's Twilight Zone Companion does.
The most irritating part of this book is the authors' gall and audacity to re-write the jokes in the episodes. Each episode section has a bolded sub heading where basically the authors, in telling something about the episode, re-tell some of the jokes that were in that particular episode. It gets really irritating really quickly especially since the jokes are much better when watching the actual show and they are only [messed] up by having to read the changed versions in the book....
Suffice it to say this book isn't very good at all, and I would advise very much against purchasing it.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Guidebook to the Black Adder universe
Comment: A nicely done episode guide to Black Adder. The book explores the sitcom influences on the series, gives complete descriptions of each episode, describes memorable events in each episode, describes aome programs that were influenced by Black Adder, and finishes with a section on the Black Adder Millennium Film. The book is written by a couple of fans, which makes it fun, in my opinion. It is a fun read. It doesn't go into much detail about production and it doesn't give a real in-depth analysis of the series, which is why I gave it 4 stars, instead of 5. However, some books that I've read about comedy get too analytical and make really boring reading, so the fact that this books lacks deep analysis probably isn't a terrible thing.
A good, solid, readable guide to one of the great British sitcoms of the 1980s
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Title:Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set ASIN: B00005A1SX Publisher: BBC Video Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $119.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $98.38 |
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Title: ROWAN ATKINSON by Bruce Dessau ISBN: 0752833804 Publisher: Trafalgar Square Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917 by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson ISBN: 0140296085 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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