Books like Lady Chatterly's Lover According to Spike Milligan

This book, another entry in the late career series of '...According to Spike Milligan' parodies, is sadly not up to the brilliant standard that Spike demonstrated in his early fiction work, nor in his autobiographies. It is obvious to anyone who is familiar with Milligan's corpus of comedic writing that by the time this book came out he was almost empty of any original ideas and he was recycling much of his past jokes and comedy tropes. His obsessive surrealism of taking passages to their literal Goonish end is shown to be worn out, run down in this piss take of Lawrence's controversial novel. At times it sputters into life, generating a few laughs here and there. However this is not prime Milligan.Perhaps the most positive thing one can say about this book is that Milligan delivers a knee to the cruets of Lawrence's reputation. Truth be told Lawrence's prose can be turgid and faintly ridiculous and Spike aims some decent blows against these aspects of his 'inspiration'. It's when Spike does little to dilute or alter the original text of "Lady Chatterly's Lover' that he does his best work, pointing out the absurdity of the language or the imagery in the source book.I would love to recommend this book however I can't give it more praise than its due, even though it is from Spike Milligan. I would suggest it's only going to really appeal to those who want to complete their collection of his work.