BORAT: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Hardcover)

~ Borat Sagdiyev (Author)

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This Book Really Is a Very Nice!
Tug on your snuggest swimsuit and get your papers in order: (in)famous international sojourner Borat Sagdiyev is here with the travel book of the year, BORAT: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Packed with helpful tips, BORAT offers off-the-beaten-path recommendations and "will instruct you on all you needing know" for your next family vacation, be it at home or abroad. Check out these images from the book:

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CONTAINS ALL NEW MATERIAL

BORAT: TOURISTIC GUIDINGS TO GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN

JAGSHEMASH! WELCOMES IN KAZAKHSTAN!

In coitus with Kazakh Minister of Information, telelviski journalist Borat Sagdiyev is take great pleasuring himself to present this touristic guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan–home to many many of Central Asia’s most highly respected sex criminals. This volume is showcase of all that is great of Kazakhstan–marvel at the statistic of Nurek Dam, make your childrens laugh with our jokes about jews and take a peekings inside brandnew Capitalist Supermall Viktor Hotelier’s Shopcity–3 stores and electrical staircare!!

Containings over half the photographs, maps and writings ever produced by Kazakhstan and printed on our finest grade paper (50% tree, 10% asbestos, 22% gypsy, 18% pubis)–this books will surely makings you visit Kazakhstan most urgently! You welcomes–we seeings you soon!

BORAT: TOURISTIC GUIDINGS TO MINOR NATION OF U.S. AND A.

JAGSHEMASH READER!

Subsequents to worldwide successes of his blockbusterings moviefilm, Borat Sagdiyev–televiski journalist and 4th most famous person of Kazakhstan–have in associate with Ministry of Information produce this travel guidings journal to minor nation of US and A. This book a most sensible acquisition if you are think of travel to this country and will instruct you on all you needing know–from how to get cage of your wife through airport, to how to gain entry to an American vagine without spend money.

It also contain most explicit guidings to American peoples–did you know that there are over 1,000 of them with chocolate colour skin? And that it natural, not makeups!? Learn too of the great American cities–Washingtons DC, New York and Londons–and read truthful accounts of their landmarks: for examples, discover that in realitys, the World Trade Centers of New York City is not near so tall as they saying it is.

Containings many many photographs never before looked upon and writings of most splendid caliber, this book really is a very nice!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Flying Dolphin Press; 1 edition (November 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385523467
• ISBN-13: 978-0385523462
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #164,418 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tastefully tasteless humor, November 9, 2007

By	David W. Straight (knoxville, tennessee United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Borat humor, like fermented horse urine, is definitely an acquired taste. There's plenty here to seriously offend almost everyone--those who are not offended by anything in this double-ended (one part USA, the other Kazakhstan) book have got to be rather strange to begin with. It's almost incessantly outrageous, but that's what makes it a lot of fun. Not everything works quite as well as it should: you may turn to a page and scowl or look revolted--but just turn to the next page and you're smiling again.

There are lots of nice color pictures--cheap shoddy color usually, but that's part of the idea. What do you want? Current technology? The text can be a bit slow-going at times ("I was also very happy face at time of my junior schoolings.."), but that's also part of the fun. Borat talks of the "Glorious Tinshein Swimmings Pool" and it's wonderful filtration system ("remove 80% of human solid waste"). It's a book that you can wander through and enjoy.

I think that the main delight with Borat so far is that it is very creative and original humor. The danger is that we may see it overdone. Men in Black was an original, creative film: MIB II was neither--it broke no new ground. Animal House was great--but the popularity led to each of the TV networks doing spinoffs which failed to capture and appreciate just why the original was so good. I would hate to see the same thing happen to Borat.

A strong word of caution: the book is definitely not for younger children. Some of the photographs are such that you would never see them reproduced on network TV. But the main danger for letting, say, an 8-year-old look at the book would be having to explain to the child why the humor is funny. A good semi-serious documentary could be made of a parent trying to explain the humor to a son or daughter--explaining about the birds and the bees would be trivially easy in comparison. So--not for everyone--but for the Borat fans, truly a gem.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laughed So Hard My Stomach Literally Ached, November 12, 2007

By	L. N. HALPERIN (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

All I can say is that I read the U S and A part in a bookstore, and I was constantly laughing loudly out loud. (A guy came over and said he was getting the book because of my laughing.) Ali G TV made me laugh so much my sides hurt, the Borat movie was hilarious, but I think the book might be even funnier. If you are an arrested development adult male without any sexual hangups, you will think this is one hysterical bit after another. I repeated some of the "observations" to my wife and my teenage son. My son laughed, my wife-not so much. But for the next few days, I would just think about how much I laughed, and that would make me laugh. You can't ask much more out of printed pages.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Niiiiiiice!, December 11, 2007

By	AliGhaemi (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

Following Kazakhstan's 2006 contribution to the laugh-out-loud movie category in the form of Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan, the television personality (and brother of "number four prostitute in all of Kazakhstan") the namesake TV mega star has returned this time with a book both chronicling his travels in the US and A while simultaneously returning the favour and introducing westerners to his homeland.

Yanking the Americans' chain (and leaving a trail of foolish fooled fools behind from New York City to Los Angeles) the steamed journalist shows off what US and A has to offer for the fellow travellers. The writing can run in slopes as Borat Sagdiyev marvels at the freedom of women and chocolate faces and the containment of Jews in New York City to a manageable ten. On the other side of the guide, Borat utilizes half the photographs and documents available in his Central Asian country - still way ahead of the degenerate Uzbeks of course - to show off the latest and greatest in his homeland (in maiming gypsies, Jews and anooses). A special mention goes to vagines and president Nursultan Nazarbaye who, as everyone knows, obtained his post by carrying a woman the longest distance of any contestant.

As far as travel guides go, Borat has just established two new benchmarks right here in one swoop. The Touristic Guidings might be a raunchy and acquired taste, yet there is no denying that I would be worried about my job security right about now if I worked for NFT, Frommer's or Rough Guides.