I need something fun to read! - Page 3

Cinisajoy · 07-13-2016, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

You want fun?!

Did you say you want fun??!!

Well, come closer....closer... have I got something for you:

1) Thorne Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne_Smith
Think "Topper," and you'll be half-way there.

2) Clarence Day
Remember the film "Life with Father"? -- Well, he was also a writer (from which the film was based). Check out some of his books.

Watch out.

Never mind. He recommended good books.

crossi · 07-14-2016, 06:28 AM

Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton series. The first 5 that were actually written by him only.
Richard Powell's Don Quiote, U.S.A., also Pioneer, Go Home.
H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens.
A. Lee Martinez's A Nameless Witch.
Patricia McKillip's The Changeling Sea.
James Schmitz's The Witches of Karres.
James White Hospital Station series.

crossi · 07-14-2016, 06:37 AM

More fun movies
Pirates of the Caribbean
Secondhand Lions
O Brother, where art thou
Ghost Busters
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Catlady · 07-16-2016, 08:17 AM

Well, if we're branching out to recommend movies, how about The Hot Rock, The Trouble with Angels, and Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.

Shirley Jackson's Life among the Savages and Raising Demons are wonderfully funny books.

Dr. Drib · 07-16-2016, 08:37 AM

Hello, OP:

Do you want movies listed, as well?

Let us know, as I also have some I can list.

issybird · 07-16-2016, 09:17 AM

Why not join The Aubrey/Maturin Book Club? We're only midway through the month as we read the first book in the series, so you've plenty of time to join in. Books are even better if you can talk about them.

The books are both tremendous fun and superbly written. And if you get hooked, you'll have 19+ books to look forward to.

pdurrant · 07-16-2016, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by issybird

The books are both tremendous fun and superbly written.

They are splendid fun, and there is some humour in them, but there's also quite a lot of disease, war and death, being a historical series set in the Napoleonic wars.

4691mls · 07-16-2016, 03:20 PM

maybe check this older thread too:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=231548

Blossom · 07-17-2016, 08:47 AM

I can tell you some fun authors if you read Romance. Jennifer Cruise, Christie Craig, Susan Anderson and Jane Graves books are all light-hearted funny Romances. The wonderful thing about Romance is you get a happy ending. Anytime I read Christie Craig I get banished to the bedroom because I laugh and giggle too much.

Historical Romance would be Julia Quinn, Sabrina Jefferies and Karen Hawkins.

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Dngrsone · 07-17-2016, 09:29 AM

I'm not a big movie watcher: it takes time away from my books. :P

Though I have watched nearly all of the ones recommended.

hildea · 07-17-2016, 01:45 PM

"The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window And Disappeared" (
http://www.jonasjonasson.com/the-boo...eared-31839684 ) is hilarious. Slapstick, with lots of implausible (to put it mildly) coincidences, both as we follow Allan Karlsson on the run from both police and criminals as a 100-year-old, and in the flashbacks of his life. ("You're that Allan Karlsson?" Mao Zedong said, astonished.") It's also a film, which was quite good, but the book is better.

And for really fluffy fun, Georgette Heyer's "The Talisman Ring", with dastardly plots, astonishing adventures, and True Love.

Dngrsone · 07-17-2016, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by hildea

"The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window And Disappeared" (
http://www.jonasjonasson.com/the-boo...eared-31839684 ) is hilarious. Slapstick, with lots of implausible (to put it mildly) coincidences, both as we follow Allan Karlsson on the run from both police and criminals as a 100-year-old, and in the flashbacks of his life. ("You're that Allan Karlsson?" Mao Zedong said, astonished.") It's also a film, which was quite good, but the book is better.

And for really fluffy fun, Georgette Heyer's "The Talisman Ring", with dastardly plots, astonishing adventures, and True Love.

I saw the movie. It was hilarious.

07-16-2016, 09:17 AM	#36
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,295 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Why not join The Aubrey/Maturin Book Club? We're only midway through the month as we read the first book in the series, so you've plenty of time to join in. Books are even better if you can talk about them. The books are both tremendous fun and superbly written. And if you get hooked, you'll have 19+ books to look forward to. Last edited by issybird; 07-16-2016 at 09:21 AM.

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