Borat Guide To Travel

Borat Guide To Travel

Borat Guide To Travel

Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. And A.

By Borat Sagdiyev, Flying Dolphin Press, 176 pp., $24.95 (in stores Nov. 6)

What it is: Technically two travel guides in one -- one to Borat's "native" country, Kazakhstan, the other to America. In reality, it's a spinoff created by Sacha Baron Cohen to capitalize on his hit 2006 movie, Borat.

Sample line: Borat on Washington, D.C.: "The city is not name after Hollywood Superstar actor, Denzel Washington, but after first Premier of US and A, Geoffrey Washingtons."

Target audience: Fans of the movie

Tone: Snide. Borat's stilted language does not translate in print.

Production value: Deliberately cheesy with grainy photos and misspellings

Topics addressed: Sex with children, incest, rape, bestiality, prostitution, animal abuse

Groups mocked: Jews, Gypsies, gays, blacks, the citizens of Kazakhstan

How offensive?: The book is much more vulgar and sexually graphic than the movie. Without Cohen's winsome screen persona, the printed stuff is just gross. NC-17.

Bottom line: Borat the book should be shrink-wrapped. Keep away from the kiddies
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2007-1...rat-onion_N.htm