Lame of Thrones
The Final Book in a Song of Hot and Cold
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Publisher Description
From Harvard's legendary humor publication comes an outrageous, uproariously funny parody of Game of Thrones, in the tradition of their previous bestselling parody book classics Bored of the Rings, Nightlight, and The Hunger Pains.
An affectionate but take-no-prisoners send-up of the massive literary and television franchise, Lame of Thrones offers fans a way of reentering the fictional world they have come to love and merrily explodes all of its conventions -- as well as their expectations of the characters -- to hilarious ends. It may even leave you more satisfied than the actual TV ending of Game of Thrones. In fact, if it doesn't the Lampoon has really dropped the ball.
Lame of Thrones will take you to Westopolis, where several extremely attractive egomaniacs are vying to be ruler of the realm and sit on the Pointy Chair. Our hero Jon Dough was a likely bet, but his untimely murder at the hands of his own men of the Night's Crotch has made that seem less likely. Will Dragon Queen Dennys Grandslam escape from her Clothkhaki captors and return to conquer the world? Or will she just get left in the desert counting grains of sand for the rest of the book? And what about Jon Dough's siblings? Will they be mentioned? Probably? Almost definitely, yes? It would be weird if they weren't prominent characters in the book, you say?
To find out, read the book you wish George R.R. Martin would write but never will. The Lampoon -- the place where such comedy writers and performers as Conan O'Brien, Colin Jost, B.J. Novak, Patricia Marx, Alan Yang, Andy Borowitz and many more all got their start -- is ready to serve parody notice to the most entertaining, infuriating, and inescapable cultural phenomenon of the past decade.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of George R.R. Martin's blockbuster A Song of Ice and Fire cycle will recognize many of the tropes in this lowbrow pop-literature parody from the Harvard Lampoon editors (Nightlight; The Hunger Pains). The book is rife with dragons, zombie armies, slit throats, and incest. Framed as a last-minute piece of hackery churned out by a wealthy, distracted, deadline-plagued Martin the author himself pops in while vacationing in Cabo and pounding Bellinis the story is a frantic mess of extravagantly named characters vying to rule the land of Westopolis from the Pointy Chair. But in satirizing Martin's penchant for Byzantine plotting (there is a reference to the "Valleys of Infinite Adventure and Endless Plotlines"), the authors have created a book-length non sequitur: given Martin's complex story, the satire is far more difficult to discern than in Lampoon satires such as Bored of the Rings, whose R-rated antics were designed to puncture Tolkien's self-seriousness. Here, the authors are mostly content with poorly punned naming ("Queen Mommy Cervix Bangsister"), endless battles, and lavishly detailed scenes of excreta and sex. The result is a convoluted volume of middle school humor.
