02-20-2010, 01:05 PM | #106 | |
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+1 What about the other one- "Three Men on the Bummel" Have onyone read it? |
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02-20-2010, 01:40 PM | #107 | |
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Now reading his "Fool" which is also fun but so far, not quite as good as "Lamb". I'm only about 1/3 the way into it but enjoying it. Must get more of his books!! |
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02-20-2010, 02:23 PM | #108 | |
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Nevermind- see it is a few posts down after yours Thanks for broadening my horizons guys because I haven't heard of most of the authors listed in this thread! My LOL book is Chelsea Handler's My Horizontal Life Last edited by SimonSays; 02-20-2010 at 02:28 PM. |
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02-20-2010, 10:56 PM | #109 |
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Leo Frankowski's time-travel-based series (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/leo-a-frankowski/) about a Polish Engineer who gets sent back in time - and decides to improve things is (unabashedly sexist) and light-hearted, and quite funny.
He does/did (he passed away recently) have one of the worst websites ever, though (http://www.leofrankowski.com/) |
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Keith Laumer especially his Retief! stories. His satire has always gotten to me.
http://www.webscription.net/s-70-kei...rerFilterID=0& |
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Can you believe that movie is a cult hit? It's a travesty!!11!
Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison. I first read this satire as a teenager and for awhile I had a hard time remembering which scenes I'd read in "Bill" and which came from Starship Troopers. |
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The book is amazing. The movie, not so much. I think it's generational, I read the book about 30 years ago and it seems like many of the movie's fans weren't even born then.
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I'm currently re-reading Northanger Abbey. I'd forgotten just how funny it is! Austen's work is full of subtle wit, but with NA she gives the impression that she's just plain enjoying herself.
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03-03-2010, 08:26 PM | #117 |
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Love The Princess Bride. I taught it in my freshman English class the first two years. And as a treat I would show the movie after we finished reading.
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03-03-2010, 10:51 PM | #118 |
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Ray Comfort's Comfort, the feeble-minded: Consolation for people who do dumb things : an autobiography will have you wetting your pants. Do not read it at night because you will wake up the person next to you, and those in the surrounding rooms (this comes from the experience of more than one reader).
It's a collection of stories about people doing dumb things. Very short, easy, funny read. |
03-04-2010, 03:32 AM | #119 |
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Well, I'm a fan of Princess Bride, of course the book, but I'll recommend Wilt series of Tom Sharpe, very british humour in the way of Wodehouse.
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