Anyone read Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody ? Is it OK for a 9yo?

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Picked this up in the charity shop for DS, as he loves Harry Potter. I started reading a bit aloud to him at bedtime, and found references to "groupies" etc. Think it went over DS head, but has anyone else read it?

I think I'll just leave him to read it on his own, and if it is too old for him, he'll get bored. The language seemed a bit tricky to be honest. He didn't know what "relieving themselves in the lake" meant until I explained.

It is a) rubbish and b) not at all suitable for a nine year old.

jesus Christ NO

there are some grossly inappropriate sexual references! I'm genuinely not a prude but this is an adult book.

a passage from it as demonstration -

"Overnight, the formidable Mrs McGooggle turned into a world class nutter, skulking around the school dressed in a discarded flour sack, subsisting somehow on the leavings in student trashcans, it was a medical miracle she had lasted this long; people whispered that Bumblemore kept her in a secret sex dungeon, where the wizened barmy pervert aired a set of privates too wrinkly to contemplate."

Oops, sounds like I'd better "lose" it, and find him something more appropriate. He loved Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and we've ordered the rest of the series through the school, but they won't come till after Easter.
The Barry Trotters were in the children's section of the charity shop, maybe I should let them know they are not really suitable.

I read Adrian Mole at that age, although most of the jokes whooshed over my innocent head.

By 13 I'd moved onto real filth like Tom Sharpe.