Where's Bin Laden?: and many others....

by Daniel Lalic, Daniel Lalic (Illustrator)

Agent, your mission is to locate Osama Bin Laden and his posse as well as plenty of other people and objects on each of the brilliant and colourful spreads inside this book. Set in some of the biggest iconic locations of the decadent Western capitalist lifestyle Paris, London and New York among others this tongue-in-cheek and fun-filled book also has a host of local characters and objects to find and tick off in the Checklist at the back of the book. Meet Jimmy Dorch, the NSA agent, groupie Patty Furst, the ?exhibitionist? Moonie and many others inside, and find the scimitars, stolen CIA handbooks and bundles of dynamite hours of fun.

Genres: Humor, Comedy, Childrens, Comics

32 pages, Hardcover

First published October 10, 2006

Reviews

[Manny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute parody of the "Where's Waldo?" series, which I got as a Christmas present a couple of years ago. In each picture, you have to find the carefully camouflaged Bin Laden, together with a number of bonus items. My favorite picture was Paris, where one of the bonus items is "Lucy Jordan, in a sports car, with the warm wind in her hair". Second favourite was London, with bonus item "Jamie Oliver cooking Nigella Lawson". He's put her in a huge pot, and she's grinning and displaying her trademark cleavage.

If you aren't amused for at least 10 minutes, you're pretty jaded. And they even give you a free magnifying glass.
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[Postscript, May 2 2011]

Will a new edition of this book be coming out soon? Tasteless suggestions welcomed.

[Elmari Kruger]

Horribly funny

[Melki · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a great idea for a parody, but I was not a fan of the illustrations. Though each "puzzle" is supposedly set in a different country, there was very little differentiation from page to page.

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve never been any good at these, it seems to trigger migraines and seizures, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway - I didn’t do any better with this one than I do with ‘where’s Wally’, which isn’t surprising really.

[Hessel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nog best moeilijk!

[Kiran Bowman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tag yourself I'm Moonie

[Marte · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really a book you "read". It's like Find Wally, which I have very fond memories of from my childhood. This isn't quite as fun as an adult, and the drawings in this book aren't as fun. The Find Wally books had very detailed drawings you could spend hours pouring over, so finding Wally wasn't the only objective. It's a fun idea though!

[Finlay · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a parody of Where's Wally that I got a few years ago as a stocking-filler. I hadn't read it right up until last year - I hadn't found the joke funny when I got it, and still don't, really. It's very much a product of its time. Dude's dead now anyway. More difficult than I expected, as a puzzle book, though. So it did manage to keep me occupied for a bit.

[Missy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Present from my sister Megan. Like Where's Waldo - The details in the pictures are hilarious; especially Denmark!

[Megan Cassidy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this book for my sister, Missy, for Christmas. It's similar to "Where's Waldo?" but better. It was too funny. The scene where you have to locate Bin Laden in Amsterdam, Holland is the BEST!

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

So fun, where is waldo with terrorism and politics. Cannot find him in Paris though...

[Sae-chan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh man, I was soooo dizzy. Now I know why it took so long to get to Osama bin Laden.

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such hilarious fun. If you like Where's Wally, you'll really enjoy "Where's Bin Laden?"

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hours of fun. Hilarious that they didn't include a page for Pakistan.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was hilarious at times!