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gpc127 · 08-31-2012, 03:32 AM

John O'Grady is fun and the others too.

However A SENTIMENTAL BLOKE by C J Dennis is very perceptive and very funny. It is in rhyme which some might find off putting but if you read nothing else in it read where he takes his sweetheart Doreen to see Hamlet, just wonderful.

A children's book sort of but both funny and poinigant is MIDNITE by Randolph Stow.

On this thread's recommendations I read Bridge of Birds, the Illumanatus Trilogy and Blood Sucking Fiends. I enjoyed all of them. Many thanks.

Still hard to beat CATCH 22. Amazing how humour and sadness go together.

Ah, another war comedy . . . GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK by J Hasek should not be forgotten.

cheers

grant

08-31-2012, 03:32 AM	#62
gpc127 grant Posts: 8 Karma: 9984 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Hungry Head NSW Australia Device: kindle	aussie books John O'Grady is fun and the others too. However A SENTIMENTAL BLOKE by C J Dennis is very perceptive and very funny. It is in rhyme which some might find off putting but if you read nothing else in it read where he takes his sweetheart Doreen to see Hamlet, just wonderful. A children's book sort of but both funny and poinigant is MIDNITE by Randolph Stow. On this thread's recommendations I read Bridge of Birds, the Illumanatus Trilogy and Blood Sucking Fiends. I enjoyed all of them. Many thanks. Still hard to beat CATCH 22. Amazing how humour and sadness go together. Ah, another war comedy . . . GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK by J Hasek should not be forgotten. cheers grant