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My first encounter with Wodehouse and Wooster was via audiobooks on my iPod–I like to listen to books while running. I must have looked nuts running around my neighborhood laughing to myself.
what’s the first one? i’ve never heard of it.
Ummm….you READ # 5?????
2 that have made me laugh aloud:
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
Dave Barry Does Japan
2 more:
Elmer Gantry
Home to Harmony
By far certain passages out of Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson
read ANY Lewis Nordan, but preferably his fiction, you WILL laugh out loud.
Catch 22 (Heller)
The Brothers K (Duncan)
I Like You (Stoddard)
The Lion’s Bed (Massie)
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk (Burgess)
Carissa,
The first book is a memoir from the 40′s, I think, of a Georgian (the country) immigrant. It is heart-warming without being cheesy. And it’s regularly funny.
My favorite part about it is that no editors really fixed the fact that he sounds like English is not his mother tongue.
Robin,
I haven’t read it, but I do read it.
Don’t let the word “dictionary” in the title throw you off. It’s actually almost all essays on how English is used, complete with quotations from the best writers of our language as evidence. Great bedtime reading!
For me: anything by PJ O’Rourke or Scott Adams (Dilbert) but BLJ and Catcher did make me LOL as well.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
thing that makes me laugh, that Abraham has published (and is not ashamed!) that he reads the dictionary. You, my friend, made me smile.