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Originally Posted by rkomar
It would help if you gave some examples of stories that you liked. I don't think there's a universal standard in tastes. One man's meat is another man's poison.
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Originally Posted by rollei
Pick up any biography. You get to read someone else's real life experiences especially of those times before he/she made it famous.
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Originally Posted by Angst
If you like animals, I recommend James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small. The story of an English country veterinarian, who can tell a very amusing story. And if you like the book, there are more in the series. |
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Originally Posted by curtw
For Funny, there's always Jean Shepherd (author/narrator of "A Christmas Story.") Most of his books are available in Kindle version, and a ton of his OTR recordings are available free on archive.org on other sies as well.
Interesting, but definitely not funny, is Jim Carroll's Basketball Diaries. Interesting how the second-best high-school basketball player in NYC at the time (after Lew Alcindor) nearly destroyed himself with heroin, but managed to come back as a punk-rock poet.
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Thanks for the replies!
I'm looking for some funny or interesting stories so that I can get ideas from so that I can create my own stories.
Are there any biographies people could recommend?
I just want some brief and basic stories!