The Soddit
Or, Let's Cash in Again
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3.3 • 20 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Bingo Grabbins is a soddit who enjoys a comfortable life (apart from his feet, of course). But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandef, and a company of bizarrely Welsh dwarves drag him away on an adventure.
They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard (or so they say) guarded by Smug, a large and very tedious dragon. Bingo is reluctant to take part in this insane venture, but a dwarven dagger held to his throat soon surprises even himself and off the companions go on a quest that seems truly epic (well, until you read about what later happened to Bingo's cousin, at any rate).
Oh, and Bingo finds this ring thing. . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Roberts's parody reads very much like Terry Pratchett updating National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings by removing all the fart jokes while upping the level of Silly Names That Are Capitalized. While diehard fans of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit will enjoy the way Roberts jumps through various hoops, such as turning trolls into cross-dressing "trollps" Burt, Bill, Gerd, and Old Gill, others will find it wearying. The prose varies from cute and clever to slightly too arch, as in the footnotes commenting on ostensible "errors" in the text. Despite a number of truly funny moments, such as Biorn the Bear-man's fatal flaw and the social spiders of Mykyurwood, the humor never manages to be self-sustaining.
Customer Reviews
It's a parody, people.
So no, they are NOT serious. Also, it was first published in paper form in 2003.
Parody
As said, this is a parody. I'm a huge fan of the original Tolkien series so reading this book was just for fun and entertainment.
Oh noooo
This guy can't be serious....