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Barry Trotter now a bestseller -
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Spoofs of the biggest books, such as Harry Potter, are becoming best sellers in their own rights
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Thanks to Wizardnews
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Spoof books parodying hits like 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of The Rings' are also becoming bestsellers.
According to The Sun, a new chart that came out yesterday shows that the sales of such publications is rapidly increasing.
Even last year's surprise bestseller about punctuation 'Eats, Shoots And Leaves' is not safe, with a parody version due out in September.
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The top five parodies that have become extremely popular are:
*Bored Of The Rings,
*Barry Trotter And The Shameless Parody,
*Sh*te's Unoriginal Miscellany,
*Barry Trotter And The Unnecessary Sequel
*The McAtrix Derided
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200,000 copies of 'Barry Trotter And The Shameless Parody' have been sold in UK in just three years, whereas its follow-up, 'Barry Trotter And The Unnecessary Sequel' has sold 110,000 books. Each of these books cost 6.99 pounds.
US author Michael Gerber, 35, is the brain behind Barry Trotter series whose third book 'Barry Trotter And The Dead Horse' is out this Christmas.
The No.1 best-selling spoof 'Bored Of The Rings' was put together 35 years ago by staff at The Harvard Lampoon and it finally made it across the Atlantic.
Publicity Manager of Gollancz Publications, Nicola Sinclair said, "Spoof books are popular because they make fun of things that need to be made fun of."
No doubt, the originals may have made their authors wealthy, but now the writers of these spoofs are also raking in the moolah. (ANI)
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