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Have we had a thread about very very funny books lately?

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 14:16

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BBBee · 10/08/2007 07:49

more please

Marina · 12/07/2007 11:18

Unreliable Memoirs is ace "the resident choir coloratura warbling away like a dingo with its paw caught in a trap", wonderful book
And Joe Queenan's "If you're talking to me your career is in trouble" is good too, as is Giles Smith's "Lost in Music".

francagoestohollywood · 12/07/2007 11:15

And to anyone who loves him, new book from Woody Allen is out. I'm going to order it on amazon NOW.

pollywollydoodle · 11/07/2007 21:18

life and times of the thunderbolt kid..bill bryson...nearly popped my piles out

can't remember what it is called but the childhood one of clive james autobiographies (?unreliable memoirs)is funny in a similar way

may contain nuts by john o'farrell tickled my funny bone

how to murder your husband and other handy house hold hints kathy lette...plot not very taxing but lots of one liners that tickled me

Lilymaid · 11/07/2007 21:03

Don't forget Three Men in a Boat even though it is 19th Century - it still makes me laugh (e.g. opening the tin of pineapple, description of papering the parlour and the famous trip to Hampton Court Maze).

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 21:00

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Marina · 11/07/2007 20:58

It was pruners. The books is even funnier, I promise. The extended opening scene with the transsexual friend and the hateful party is a classic.
Also one of the few films Michael Douglas has made lately where he doesn't try to play 20 years younger.

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 20:56

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talcytrelawny · 11/07/2007 20:56

The Stork Club....highly entertaining!

Marina · 11/07/2007 20:56

Its appearance on a thread discussing seam-poppingly funny books is quite amusing in itself

policywonk · 11/07/2007 20:53

I read Quincunx recently. Couldn't quite see what the fuss was about - but then I did fail to see the hidden plot.

Marina · 11/07/2007 20:52

Zoinks pruni, bad luck about the widdle. He'll end up reviewing books for the Times at this rate though
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon had some good moments too

Tamum · 11/07/2007 20:51

OK, have a good time (will try and remember the Quincunx when I go in on Friday...)

Marina · 11/07/2007 20:51

Bags, I loved Are You Experienced, what an excellent book. He peaked young I fear
And am honour-bound to agree that the mighty JC has some wonderful moments, as cited, but also the swimming pool fiasco in The Rotters Club had me weeping and incoherent with laughter
No mention yet for Jeeves and Wooster, or Blandings , or The Diary of a Nobody

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 20:46

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Tamum · 11/07/2007 20:15

Oh Pruni, you poor thing. Do you want to drop him off here tomorrow while you go book shopping? It would be absolutely fine, you know

policywonk · 11/07/2007 20:12

I like to think of small puddles of piss, dotted about at random, as gifts that DS1 has given the world. Not sure whether I can rationalise small puddles of diarrhoea in the same way, however. For those, we just turn on our heels and run, run like the wind.

I am worried about you and your bookshopping now. Shopping for books is in the Universal Charter of Human Rights, surely?

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 20:07

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 20:06

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policywonk · 11/07/2007 20:06

Pruners - noooooo! Hope you just hustled him out of there and didn't find yourself on your knees scrubbing away at the carpet with a wet wipe.

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 20:03

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TheArmadillo · 11/07/2007 20:01

DAve Gorman and Danny Wallace 'Are you Dave Gorman' had me laughing out loud.

As did First amongst Sequels (Jasper Fforde) and Bill Bryson's 'The Thunderbolt kid'.

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Pruners · 11/07/2007 20:00

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donnie · 11/07/2007 19:59

oh yes I love the house of sleep too, although it has a strange ending.

alphonsa · 11/07/2007 19:58

I'll second Jonathan Coe... WACU is great and the House of Sleep had me snorting out loud. Very becoming

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