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The Book of Bunny Suicides
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (2003-10-27)
ISBN: 0340828994
EAN: 9780340828991
Hardcover: 96 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent! Amazing!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-09
Hilarious! Original and classic! If you're a fan of "The Far Side", this one's definitely for you.
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Andy Riley is no Gary Larson
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-03-04
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
David Baddiel described Andy Riley as "At last a British Gary Larson".
I love black humour. I love Gary Larson's The Far Side. Gary Larson's humour is ironic; you think about it, your read between the lines, you laugh. But the theme of Andy Riley's book is: rabbit is suicidal - rabbit commits suicide. The irony being what exactly? I found the theme too obvious. There is no irony. I looked through this book and its sequel without raising a smile or even an eyebrow. Keep black humour black. Keep sick humour sick. But please make it funny as well. Andy Riley is no Garry Larson.
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Genius!
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-11-22
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Not much more than a book of illustrations, but worth it all the same. I almost didn't give it away as the gift I had intended it to be because it was so funny! An ingenious collection of ways for bunnies to meet their ends, but should we really be asking the question - just why are these bunnies all so unhappy?!
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Cute, fuzzy. and dead
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-10-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Bunnies are cute, fuzzy, and not very bright. And in Andy Riley's works, they're also suicidal.
In fact, you can guess just from the title of Riley's "The Book of Bunny Suicides" what the book is about -- wordless cartoons of bunnies offing themselves in unique, creative, and sometimes overly complex ways.
It's a running gag, but you'll never guess how many of these bunnies choose to off themselves -- they involve corkscrews, subway trains, stalactites, cigarettes, seppuku, airplane toilets, palm trees, pointy-nose jets, toasters, colanders, and many other seemingly harmless (or at least not VERY harmful) ordinary items.
There are even some pop culture references -- the bunny prepares to beam down from "Star Trek," sits atop the Wicker Man from the same-named movie, and one of the rare cartoons with dialogue, the death-pursuing bunnies infiltrate the legendary duel between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Hysterical.
Yeah, it's basically a one-gag book, but Riley manages to keep the chuckles rolling along through the book. Part of the humor is in the ridiculous stubbornness these bunnies have to off themselves, and Riley's creativity in coming up with surreal methods for suicide.
There are a few duds, admittedly -- the deli counter one took me several reads to understand, since you have to pay very careful attention to note the bunny in this one. And the overpass gag simply doesn't make much sense.
Riley's artwork is simple and clean, and his bunnies are amusingly stoic as they chase down death. And he shows a variety of bunny deaths -- some are gory, some are physically impossible, and some simply involve bunny parts flying bloodlessly. Some, in fact, only hint at the bunnies' demises -- and these tend to be the most hilarious of all.
"The Book of Bunny Suicides" is a fun quick comic book for people with a sick sense of humour and/or a hatred of bunnies. Darkly amusing.
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The kids Laughed for hours
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-09-14
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I bought this for my kids aged 10 & 12. They have read it over and over again thinking it's hilarious. If your children have a sick humour this is a book for them.
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