My current reading schedule has been a little on the dull side. So I was thinking last night: I need to laugh. I need one of those laugh-out loud, chortle, chortle, chortle, guffaw, guffaw, guffaw kind of reads. The problem is, I am at a loss.
Any suggestions?
Oh, and something to make you smile (laugh? chortle?):
-L
I laughed out loud when I read Beast Behaving Badly by Shelly Laurenston. That might do it for you.
ReplyDelete"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams or "Cold Comfort Farm" by Stella Gibbons. The first is hilarious and involves the destruction of earth to make room for an intergalactic highway. The second is a satire of "English countryside" novels and is also hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read Christopher Moore, but by all reports he is funny....
ReplyDeleteAnything by Douglas Adams is a good bet. If you like animals or are interested in the environment, his non-fiction "Last Chance to See" is both hilarious and really interesting.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I listened to the Hitchhiker books and they are great. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore is good. Boomsday by Christopher Buckley (the Thank you for Smoking guy) is good too. My FAVORITE fun books are The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz (there are four books, and they are the best).
ReplyDeleteoh and david sedaris also makes me laugh.
ReplyDeleteI love those All Spice ads, they always make me smile :) I agree with Kristina, anything by Sedaris is laugh out loud hilarious! Although, I think one of his best is Me Talk Pretty One Day.
ReplyDeleteI also liked Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. The best: If you can find a recording of him as a Christmas Elf, it is worth 10,000 books. NPR runs it every year on Christmas Eve. I listen to it year round and howl every time.
ReplyDeleteOther books that I liked because they were funny/light/lightly funny...
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Indiana by Haven Kimmel
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg (LOVE this lady’s stuff! Anything by Fannie Flagg is great + funny)
Me by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente as told to Garrison Keillor (HEE-larious!)
Who Are You People?: A Personal Journey into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America by Shari Caudron (It's a non-fiction book looking into people who are nutso about one thing or another. And by nutso, think uber-Trekkies, people who are so convinced they have an animal alter-ego that they undergo serious plastic surgery, and women who watch hours of Andy Griffin every night to win a Mayberry contest every year.)
Long comment over. Good luck finding something funny!
Thanks so much for most of the suggestions. I am not so sure about the Hitchhiker's Guide. We went to the bookstore on Friday night and I got bored just from Drew reading the inside of the front cover. It just is not me, I think. But other suggestions well noted (except torrid romance...no thank you!).
ReplyDeleteCheers!
OK...I'm going outside the box and recommending a movie. Death at a Funeral (the original UK movie). Absolutely hysterical! Funniest movie I've watched in a long time. I think I was crying!
ReplyDeleteFor books, if you like thrillers, Beat the Reaper is pretty funny. Also, The Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher are pretty fun and entertaining.
I also remembered 'curious incident of the dog in the night-time' Mark Haddon. It's quirky.
ReplyDelete"Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You Will Ever Need". You will laugh your a** off.
ReplyDeleteDon't know how you feel about snark, but I love Jennifer Lancaster's books, starting with Bitter is the New Black. She's hilarious in the "laugh outloud while you're reading on the train" kind of way, if you are into sarcasm. I think that the thing that makes these fun and not just mean is that most of the time she is being sarcastic about herself.
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