Evil Machines: When Monty Python meets Roald Dahl... - Softcover

Jones, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783520108 ISBN 13: 9781783520107

Verlag: Unbound, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

How do you feel about your phone? Or your car? You probably don't think about them much, except when they go wrong. But what if they go really wrong and turn properly bad – evil, even?

Join Terry Jones on a hilariously disturbing journey into the dark heart of machines that go wrong: meet the lift that takes people to places they don't want to go, the vacuum cleaner that's just too powerful, the apparently nice bomb, the truthful phone, the terrifying train to anywhere, and Mrs. Morris, a little old lady from Glasgow who turns out to be a very resourceful heroine...

Brisk and cheerful on the outside, but as edgy and uncomfortable as any of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected within, Terry Jones's collection of thirteen cautionary fables will make you look at the 'helpful' inventions that surround you in a very different way.

A brilliantly-written and gleefully mischievous book, suitable for Luddites of all ages or anyone who likes a bit of Pythonesque edge to their silliness.

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Terry Jones is a writer, actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director, presenter, poet, historian and author. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Unbound
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783520108
• ISBN 13: 9781783520107
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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