Borat: Touristic Guidings 0
CraveOnline reviews Borat’s new book.
Luckily, this is no cash in at all. First of all, the two books are actually combined into one, and printed back to back so you can read one, flip it over and then read the other. All the material is written by the show and the movie’s writers, and is true to the source material. So true, in fact, that the reason this book has arrived so long after the movie is that it is terribly offensive, and US publishers feared that it would not sell. This is despite the fact that the Borat movie has grossed more than $260 million worldwide.
Many of you might be asking, just what about it is so offensive that wasn’t already in the movie or on the show? I honestly don’t have an answer to that, other than that perhaps it may have been the numerous, explicit photos of naked Kazakh prostitutes or American women caught, “making toilet”. There are even a few “chrams” peppered throughout the book. Or it could be the rampant anti-semitism. I personally don’t think there’s anything here that’s worse than two naked dudes wrestling in a hotel room for half an hour!
The bottom line is, I don’t care if you think Borat is the most played out joke in town. This book is hilarious! If you don’t laugh at the horse recipes and Korki Butchek album covers, than you are either a humorless asshole, or the prime minister of Kazakhstan. The whole book is written in Borat’s own unique vernacular, and details an interpretation of charmingly backward social commentary that is not to be missed.
