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One reader's thoughts as she steps from book to book.
Books I've Finished
- "A Christmas Memory"
- by Truman Capote 12/8/12
- "Child's Christmas in Wales"
- by Dylan Thomas 12/7/12
- "One Christmas"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- "The Thanksgiving Visitor"
- by Truman Capote 11/29/12
- Inside Mrs. B's Classroom
- by Leslie Baldacci 11/28/12
- The Bee Eater
- by Richard Whitmire 11/15/12
- There Are No Shortcuts
- by Rafe Esquith 10/28/12
- I'd Like to Apologize to
- Every Teacher I Ever Had
- by Tony Danza 10/21/12
- Corked
- by Kathryn Borel 10/15/12
- Year of Learning Dangerously
- by Quinn Cummings 9/30/12
- A Hologram for the King
- by Dave Eggers 8/23/12
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- by Harper Lee 7/18/12
About Me
- Christine
- I often have a few books with bookmarks in them at once. I enjoy classics more than contemporary works of fiction, often read historical fiction, and love to get glimpses into other people's lives by reading memoirs and biographies.
15 comments:
I love to laugh out loud when I am reading!
"The Ladies #1 Detective Agency"
"A Walk in the Woods"
and "Harry Potter" all made me crack up. I am sure there are others...like the "Frances" books...those are funny.
Anything by Bill Bryson (except "A Short History of Nearly Everything", that one made me cry), "Pretty Good Joke Book" by Garrison Kellior (duh), "If At All Possible, Involve a Cow" by Neil Steinberg and of course "Eloise" ("We are going to France, France, France")
Sophia, I didn't know those mysteries were funny!
Don, I love the title of the Steinberg book and must look into it knowing only that and that it makes you laugh. Your vote for Eloise is a wonderful surprise.
I know I must be forgetting something else, but what comes to mind right away for me is Catcher in the Rye. Salinger cracks me up good. When he's not making me sad.
Ah, so much . . . anything by Dave Barry, obviously. Bryson's good. Calvin & Hobbes. The errors in my humanities textbook. Louis & Richard Leakey. I can't list it all. I'm very easily amused. DRD
The Leakeys are. . .funny?
I enjoy Bryson and Calvin & Hobbes also! My favorite LOL author would have to be Tom Robbins. One of the Janet Evanovich # series (5 maybe) has a scene with a dog in the backseat who had just eaten numerous inedible objects...I was crying, I was laughing so hard.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson and Henderson, The Rain King by Saul Bellow always make me laugh. Another one that I find funny is Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
I absolutely adore the Lenore graphic novels by Roman Dirge when I need a laugh. And the pictures are so cute. With bunnies and kitties and evil...(oh my!) There's also this great (also graphic) one called Cat Getting Out of a Bag that has no plot or anything, just illustrates random things that cats do. They wouldn't necessarily be funny to just anyone, but if you had a cat, you'd get it. And if you love your cat, you'd laugh and go "Hey, MY cat does that TOO!"
Me Talk pretty someday by David Sedaris. This book had me almost in tears i was laughing so hard!
Well . . . the Leakeys aren't trying to be funny. They just have this arrogance about them that gets pretty hilarious at times, whether they mean it to or no. DRD
Sedaris's "Holidays on Ice" - the story describing his job as a elf at Macy's...very funny.
Ben, did you read that story of David Sedaris's about his brother? I can't remember the exact title, but it's something something The Rooster? (because that's what his brother calls himself, the Rooster...) Hilarious.
Man, I can't believe I forgot about David Sedaris...
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Death by Black Hole"
I'll second the "Fear and Loathing" vote.
I also laughed once during "Blood Meridian", but then I felt bad about it.
The Kid Stays In The Picture by Robert Evans is the
funniest book I've ever read and one of my top
five favorites. Evans ran Paramount Pictures during
the late sixties and early seventies and was behind
movies like The Godfather and Chinatown. He's so
full of himself and crap that you won't know what's
the truth and what was made up on the fly. I don't say this very often, but I loved this book. If you
love movies, and I know you do, run, don't walk, to
your local Barnes and Noble and pick up this book.
Jim, everything you say sounds like it should be in the voice of the guy that does movie previews :)
That, my friend, is a compliment.
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