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Five Get Back Together Yet Again
After years apart George is determined to get the Five back together. Unfortunately, so is half the planet, and they all have their own (rather suspect) motives for the reunion. Oh dear, this could end badly.
Anne needs to be distracted away from finding her next husband, Julian has an injunction out on his identity (which isn't very helpful in a book), Dick is wondering if he's got his medication right, and George now wants to be called Georgina. The French Famous Five (a lucrative jet-setting franchise of the original Five) and even The Secret Seven (with their rubber-soled shoes) are determined to join in, but aren't much help frankly, and their expenses claim is particularly unhelpful. But worse is the fact that all the old villains they put away over the years are out on parole, and looking for a slice of the pie, although nobody's too sure what flavour it is. Still not sure? Hell, I'd buy it just to see if there were any decent Aunt Fanny jokes, but then I'm that shallow. The final climatic ending will be enough to make you weep. Hm, you can't really ask much more of a book than that, although they can be useful propping up the sideboard.
[Note: "Five Get Back Together Yet Again" was first produced for the Anarchy In A Book initiative, part of which was to help fund the families of the striking miners back in the 1984-85 conflict. However, proceeds were switched to Live Aid (1985). The aim of the initiative was to challenge traditional writing styles, which it was felt at the time had become stale. Several pieces were produced, some using an imaginative alternative to style, grammar and even spelling. This did often make the pieces quite challenging to read...in some cases early drafts were near-on impossible to fathom! The "Five" book took word-play to a different extreme, with many anarchic elements of The Goons radio show. Here it is reproduced in its original form to help raise money for Comic Releif. Curiously, it makes more sense now than it did then!]
Anne needs to be distracted away from finding her next husband, Julian has an injunction out on his identity (which isn't very helpful in a book), Dick is wondering if he's got his medication right, and George now wants to be called Georgina. The French Famous Five (a lucrative jet-setting franchise of the original Five) and even The Secret Seven (with their rubber-soled shoes) are determined to join in, but aren't much help frankly, and their expenses claim is particularly unhelpful. But worse is the fact that all the old villains they put away over the years are out on parole, and looking for a slice of the pie, although nobody's too sure what flavour it is. Still not sure? Hell, I'd buy it just to see if there were any decent Aunt Fanny jokes, but then I'm that shallow. The final climatic ending will be enough to make you weep. Hm, you can't really ask much more of a book than that, although they can be useful propping up the sideboard.
[Note: "Five Get Back Together Yet Again" was first produced for the Anarchy In A Book initiative, part of which was to help fund the families of the striking miners back in the 1984-85 conflict. However, proceeds were switched to Live Aid (1985). The aim of the initiative was to challenge traditional writing styles, which it was felt at the time had become stale. Several pieces were produced, some using an imaginative alternative to style, grammar and even spelling. This did often make the pieces quite challenging to read...in some cases early drafts were near-on impossible to fathom! The "Five" book took word-play to a different extreme, with many anarchic elements of The Goons radio show. Here it is reproduced in its original form to help raise money for Comic Releif. Curiously, it makes more sense now than it did then!]
115 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2017
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