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

[Pruners]

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anything by John O Farrell!

anything by James Thurber

oh yes - would lve a funny read - all been very depressing lately. Will watch eagerly as I have nothing to add.

oh good thread, was just going to say, I am reading 'My life on a plate' by India Knight.

This woman has a fab sense of humour.

This has some very very funny bits, though it's sad in places as well.

not recently, but I have the last book from Kurt Vonnegut waiting to be read (once I finish what I'm reading at the mo)

Am reading 'Then We Came to an End' by Joshua Ferris, wich is very good. If you ever worked in an office you'll find it funny. Pre ordered an bbrilliant activity book for dd, have been on the website , it's is fun. now she doesn't accuse me of reading my grown up books and leaving her out. plus i'm learning how to prank her back and she's wanting to flog her fairy cakes (recipe from the book) at every fete going.

'1066 And All That' (yes, I know it's about 40 years old)

or any Onion anthologies.

Did you ever get to the bookshop, Pruners?

Am a huge Peter Kay fan so have just re-read his biography - v. funny. Not sure whether you have to be northen to find him hilarious?? My DH is from the south and though he thinks he's funny (PK that is) there are some references that go over his head.

Just started reading Dave Gorman's Googlewhack. So far it's been quite funny and I remember dh reading it on holiday one year and spending the time lying on the sunbed laughing his head off and embarrassing me!

william sutcliffe - are you experienced?

piss-take about university gap years.

I always love anything by Tom Sharp,lots of laugh out loud moments.

any of the Tim Moore travel books are laugh out loud. He is also a sometime writer/interviewer for the Telegraph. French Revolutions is his take on the Tour de France, and I think he has a newish one out at the moment. Frost in my Moustache is very funny.

Bill Bryson always makes me laugh. One of the reviews quoted on Notes from a Small Island says something like 'not a book to be read in public for fear of emitting loud snorts'. Very dry sense of humour and quite self-deprecating (sp?).

Any of Joseph O'Connors "Irish Male' books (secret life of/at home & abroad etc). I couldn't speak for about 10 mins trying to read a bit out to DH first time I read it!

what a carve up by Jonathan Coe is a side splitter too.

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

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

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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 - 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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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?