Barry Trotter and the dead horse

Barry Trotter #3

by Michael Gerber

Barry Trotter is pretty disreputable and unpleasant. Imagine what he was like as a teenager. Here's the beginning of the whole sorry tale. Did Barry and Ermine do it? (Their homwork, that is.) How exactly did Lon end up with a hole in his head that whistles when the wind blows? Was Lord Valumart always that crass? And where did that ridiculous German accent come from? As funny and twisted as the first two books, BARRY TROTTER AND THE DEAD HORSE is also as affectionate towards JK Rowling's originals. This has lead to the books gaining a devoted following amongst fans of Harry Potter as well as being a welcome antidote for the over-egging (eeuwww) of the boy wizard. A process that we're not a part of at all. Oh no. Not even a tiny bit.

Genres: Fantasy, Humor, Fiction, Comedy, Young Adult, Harry Potter

306 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Parodist, author of Barry Trotter series, parodies of Harry Potter books. Also known as Mike Gerber or Michael Allen Gerber.

For the business author, see Michael E. Gerber.

Reviews

[Mikayla · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the worst things I've tried to read all year. I had to push through book 2, but this was something else, so just had yo put it down and stop.

It's not as funny as book one and it doesn't have a point. I cant recommend at all.

[Iris · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun read. I wouldn't reread it I guess, but it was okay to read once.
I really enjoy reading anything Harry Potter related, and so is this book, as it is a parody on the Harry Potter series. It was good and funny. Some jokes were really good.

[Gabby · Rating 2 out of 5]

Extremely dumb. Mildly entertaining. Minimal Plot. Glad it’s over.
I got this from the library but I still feel like I should get some compensation for having to read this crap. Sadly refunds are not available.

[Johana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well it was okay...
If you read previous books you probably know what to expect from this one. It was a ride but a bit bumpy and quite a few times there were confusing and not logical parts. But I would say it's a nice easy reading if you don't want to think and just read( but please just don't think about the plot and characters, it's not worth it).

[Sari · Rating 3 out of 5]

don't know if this was worth my time. however, it was fast paced and made me chuckle from time to time.

[glühwurm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Diese Harry Potter-Parodie hat mit den echten Harry Potter-Büchern kaum etwas gemeinsam, abgesehen von den ins Lächerliche gezogenen Charakteren. Das ist neben einer Menge Schimpfwörtern und unsinnigen Ideen bei einer Parodie ja auch nicht anders zu erwarten, insbesondere wenn man die beiden Vorbände "Barry Trotter und die schamlose Parodie" & "Barry Trotter und die überflüssige Fortsetzung" bereits gelesen hat.
Ich hätte allerdings nicht gedacht, dass mich dieses Buch so sehr begeistern könnte!
Ich möchte nicht zu viel verraten, aber in diesem Buch geht Barry in der Vergangenheit eine ganz besondere Beziehung zu einer anderen, bisher nicht vorgekommenen Person ein, die ich unheimlich süß und unterhaltsam finde.
Die Erinnerung daran hat mich sogar dazu gebracht, das Buch erneut zu lesen.
Davon abgesehen finde ich den Rahmen der Geschichte so seltsam, dass er schon wieder lustig ist: Barry ist mittlerweile 39 Jahre alt, sieht aber aus wie 9. Seine Frau zwingt ihn deshalb, zu einem Psychiater zu gehen, der ihn durch Hypnose in die Vergangenheit zurückversetzt.

Eine Textstelle, bei der ich sehr lachen musste, ist "Sauber gemacht wird erst, wenn der Dreck einem Tränen in die Augen treibt.", um nur mal einen kleinen Einblick in die Art und den Humor dieses Buches zu geben.

Allen Harry Potter-Fans, die leichte Literatur für zwischendurch suchen, schrägen Humor mögen und auch nichts gegen Quatsch und Flachwitze haben, kann ich dieses Buch ans Herz legen.

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Barry Trotter is 39 years old and he looks like a nine-year-old. Ermine forces him to go and see school psychatrist, Ernst Ritalin, who think that the key to Barry's going younger is hidden in his past. Trips into Barry's memories shows also episodes with Ermine organizing school Yule Ball and her affair with parody of Viktor Krum.

[[ J o ] · Rating 2 out of 5]

[Quick review from memory until I re-read and re-review at a later date:

Ahhh. At first glance through it is marginally humorous, but you soon realise it really isn't up to much. The standards are low. Unsure if I'll re-read it at all, but it might be interesting to try and write some kind of analytical review]

[Christie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was craaap I didn't even finish it, I didn't find it funny or any thing it was just odd.

[Guido Bergmans · Rating 2 out of 5]

Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse van Michael Gerber. SPOILERS







Uiteraard een parodie op HP, nogal sterk euh... anogenitaal getint. Absurde, grotesk overdreven humor. Een soort kruising tussen Monty Python, Mad en de boeken van Tom Sharpe. Niet voor onbedorven kinderzieltjes.
Het hele verhaal lijkt op niet veel maar sommige vondsten zijn wel grappig, vaak ook grof en vulgair (hoewel nog niets in vergelijking met Herman Brusselmans). Nu ja, het kostte maar 0.95 euro, dus daar kan ik niet voor sukkelen.
Een kleine bloemlezing voor 16+:
Barry is gestraft door Bumblemore omdat ie zich het vorige schooljaar iets teveel seksuele escapades heeft gepermitteerd (“You play more doctor than the Royal College of Surgeons”)
Barry is niet echt een geweldige student (quote van Ermine:“De enige keer dat ik je heb zien schrijven, was toen je je handtekening aan het oefenen was voor die valse chèque”)
Ermine wordt door haar vriendje Victor veelvuldig geportretteerd in erotische poses.
Lon heeft een schedeltrauma opgelopen bij een quiddit-ongeval, en wordt door Nurse Pommefrite gered door hem een hersentransplantatie te geven van een golden retriever.
Alpo Bumblemore zoekt elke zomer docenten met deze advertentie: “Bent u een bedrieger? Psychotisch? Of gewoon incompetent? Als u “ja” antwoordt op één (of elk) van deze vragen, dan bent u precies de persoon die wij zoeken! Strafblad niet essentieel, maar strekt wel tot aanbeveling.”
Serious is een paard. Hij wordt door de godin Hecate in de onderwereld opgeëist voor euh…. Nou ja, ze klaagt achteraf dat hij te lijden heeft onder erectile dysfunction.
Hafwid is een dronkaard, die de dreuzelwereld betreedt in een verpleegstersuniform, omdat dat het enige was dat hem paste in de carnavalwinkel.
Tuna Lovecraft heeft als huisdier een angstaanjagende demon van 100 meter hoog met vleugels en een octopushoofd, genaamd C’thulu. Vraag van Barry: “Heb je hem moeten laten castreren?”
Bodyjuice Potion -- a really disgusting mixture of somebody else's body fluids that, when drunk, makes the drinker look like the source individual.
Bladder-control spell -- developed by Amos the Semicontinent for use on long car trips.
Enz., enz…

[Ville Kokko · Rating 3 out of 5]

A deliberately messed-up Harry Potter parody. There are a couple of very good jabs at the original series - I can literally think of two - but mostly, it's just completely random stuff, some of which is still funny. I don't regret reading it, but I'm not exactly rushing to re-read this or to read the other parts in the series.

[René · Rating 1 out of 5]

did not even try anymore

just stop

[Mike Marsbergen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as good as the first two, but still quite amusing throughout.

[Saskia (Smitie) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Stopped reading after 40 pages. Just changing the names to dumb counterparts and adding poop and sex jokes do not make a story a funny parody. Not a genre for me, I guess.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Starts quite boring, but kinda got into it after a while. Kinda wish I hadn't read book 3 first (was 99p in The Works). Still, could have been a lot better!

[Zohaib Arshad · Rating 3 out of 5]

It makes the reader chuckle (that's for sure).

[Matthew Harwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another weird and whacky instalment in a weird and whacky parody series. Fans of the originals will need to read this book with cheek and its crude humour will leave you laughing out loud.

[good chicken · Rating 2 out of 5]

As someone who (partially) enjoyed the other Barry Trotter books, this one was a little bit disappointing.
Okay, Dead Horse, we get it. It's funny, Gerber's same self-loathing and forth wall breaking humor remains, but the plot is a complete mess. Without a doubt the worst in the series.
The appeal of the first book was that it was the Harry Potter crew in a more adult environment, all of whom were equally as rude and unlikable as each other. The second was good because we had an actual plot (rather than a cop out movie plot) and it was at Hogwash. The appeal to this one was seeing Barry actually in school... so how the fuck did Gerber get it wrong when they are already seven books about magic school?
Well, chiefly because it wasn't that different from it not being at their school.
Barry's a tosser, Ermine's a sex starved adultress, and Lon (for the most part) is a dog boy. I was looking forward to seeing Lon as a normal person, so similar to Barry that when Lon DID get turned into a dog boy, it would've been an excellent way for Barry to go "If I don't grow up, maybe something shitty will happen to me!" and in the end, a WEEK later, the crew don't seem to bothered that Lon is essentially dead.
And then he does die? I think?
What was the actual point in Bea? When Barry brought her back to life, where did she even go? And... what was even going on when Barry died? It made no sense whatsoever. Are Lon and Serious dead too? Lon died because he ate Barry's chocolate wand... but that was when he was fifteen and we've seen him when he was 38 too.
Talk about a rushed ending too. I feel like their should've been more of a reaction to Terry Valumart's death. Which if you asked me, seemed to easy. Saying that, the volcano detail was brilliant.
Without a doubt, Dorco's band was the best bit.

All in all, it IS funny, but not as funny. One doesn't really care about what's going to happen in the end, I think.

[Marjolein (UrlPhantomhive) · Rating 2 out of 5]

READ IN ENGLISH

When I first found this book, a parody, I thought it had to be fun, as my sister and my like to make fun of some certain scenes in the Harry Potter books and movies ourselves. But, I was really disappointed. There were a lot 'jokes' in it that just weren't funny, and there was no story in it at all. I actually liked the first few pages the best, in which is explained that it has nothing to do with JK Rowling. It took me quite some time to finish the book, as I was not interested at all in what was going to happen next. Perhaps I should have read the first books before reading this one, but I don't think I will go and find out.

[Maud · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this little book at a book market for only 2 euro so I had no reason to leave it there. Halfway through the book I found out that there actually had been two prequels but I didn't have them and reading it without reading those before was fine, no problem there at all. Now some parts were fun, some parts were more ''look at me I'm so funny because I tell rude things'' but overall a fine read I guess. Now I'm going to search for the other two parts, apparently the author will stop writing if enough people buy his book.

[SC · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first few jokes about the voracious sexual appetites of Barry Trotter & Friends may merit a chuckle initially, but after reading 350 more jokes with similar premises, one is more inclined to seek a refund, rather than continue reading.

Now, the first Barry Trotter book--that was a decent attempt at parody. This really is, as the prologue insists, a desperate attempt to make a buck. Er, quid.

[Soňa · Rating 1 out of 5]

This wasn't even funny. Was expecting more and I'm disappointed, will hope that other one I have I wil bit better.
Not sure where problem is... might be too old for sexul jokes? don't think so but have feeling that author sometimes tries jokes just to have them there without logic or any sense. Bit too pushy.
On other hand book is goodly written, in style and use of words so one star is adequate.

Plus I still finished it :-)

[Manu Corta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Divertido, para leerlo probablemente una vez. Aunque tiene muy buenas puntadas. Pero algo en la trilogía no me termina de cuajar, y no es por ser Potter Fan, que sí soy, sino más bien que llega un momento en que nada tiene sentido. Me dejó una sensación parecida al primer libro. Extraño, pero con pedazos disfrutables. Nada que cambie mi vida.

[April Helms · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poor Barry Trotter has been cursed so that he keeps getting younger. Ermine and friends must find a way to rescue him before he gets entirely juvenile. Probably the most serious and the most humerous of the three, if that makes any sense.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW!!!!! SOOOO much better than Harry Potter! Full of imagination and the great parody has taken form! I can't put it down! SOOOOO addicting. Recommend this to everyone. I chortled through the melancholy parts and this should get a 6star review!

[Rebecca Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

quite hard to understand in the beginning but improved later

[Steve Mitchell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite funny in places, but I have read better parodies; then again, I have also read a lot worse.

[Jamila Bost · Rating 2 out of 5]

The humour was quite obvious and turned it not as funny as possibly intended.

[Daniel Hrenak · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is according to me good only for the places, where people spend every day sitting doing things like this. But everybody has a different taste :)

[Kez · Rating 4 out of 5]

This daft spoof is such a good laugh and doesn't attack harry potter books but has just made a daft big headed character who is detestable but difficult not to enjoy reading about