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  <title>Pirates! In an Adventure with Napoleon</title>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Gideon Defoe’s pirate books. Humor is such a tricky, subjective thing. I generally don’t go for things that get too cartoonish and outré, at least when this is combined with an attempt at making me care about the characters and invest in their progress. I have a hard time caring about cartoons. Human comedy and droll narration are more my style. Until a book goes so far beyond that pale that it goes totally round the bend. Then I’m back in, all the way. That’s what the Pirate books do. They are giddy, loony, ridiculous, delightfully inspired nonsense, crammed with sight gags, outlandish fancies, and the kind of infantile, elastic-faced hijinks of a Bugs Bunny Cartoon or a Monty Python episode or Marx Brothers movie. In this installment, the Pirate Captain, in a funk after losing the Pirate of the Year award to some corporate ass-kisser, decides to hang up his cutlass and take up bee-keeping on the island of St. Helena. Sadly, his attempt to retreat from the pressured popularity contests of piracy backfires when he is joined in his island retreat by the insufferably perfect Napoleon. Never mind the plot. Defoe is just very good at tickling the funny bone with images like a butter covered pirate swaggering around in a thong, or the fabulous Pirate King punctuating a sentence by punching a Great White shark in half. Defoe keeps filling your glass with this smartly stupid, intoxicating nonsense until you are tipsy, drunk, blotto, and laughing all over yourself. ]]></body>
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