Ep 72: Books that Make You Laugh!
Bookbabble Episode 72: Books That Make You Laugh!
Recorded 6 June 2010
Babblers: Lone, Marcel, Renee, Donny
Synopsis:
What are the books that make the babblers break into a smile? Perhaps even outright laughter?(Although it must be said that would look weird. Good for clearing a space for you in public transports, though). Anyway, babblers list out some interesting picks here, and in true Bookbabble style, a most varied and eclectic mix indeed. Not just funny books, mind you, but satirical and cynical yet darkly humorous works are also covered. Plus, critically-acclaimed poet who’s actually crap, and Marcel goes postal. “Some people shouldn’t be allowed to write!”, he wails.
(Photo Credit: Christopher Moore from Seattle P-I)
Show Length: 1:09:47
Show Notes:
- Shakespeare
- Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
- David Sedaris
- Jon Stewart, America the Book, Naked Pictures of Famous People
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Neil Gaiman
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan saga
- Janet Evanovich
- Samuel Beckett
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- PG Wodehouse, Jeeves and Wooster Stories
- Dorothy Parker’s interior monologues
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais
- Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
- JP Donleavy, "The Ginger Man"
- Lars Saabye Christense The jealous hairdresser/barber
- Hanif Kureishi
- Lars Saabye Christensen
- Eoin Colfer – Hitchhiker’s sequel
- Against The Day, Thomas Pynchon
- Will Self
- Quantity Theory of Insanity
- Gabriel Chevallier
- http://www.amazon.com/Scandals-Clochemerle-Gabriel-Chevallier/dp/1416569766/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275841439&sr=1-1
- Tova Reich
- The Jewish War
- Villy Sørensen:
- http://www.amazon.com/Harmless-Tales-Villy-Sorensen/dp/1870041151/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275841868&sr=1-3
- Cynthia Ozick
- My Holocaust
- http://www.amazon.com/God-Bless-You-Dr-Kevorkian/dp/0743422007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275842158&sr=8-1
- The Liar, Stephen Fry
- Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry
- The Gunseller, Hugh Laurie
- The Stars’ Tennis Balls
- http://www.amazon.com/Ode-Less-Travelled-Unlocking-Within/dp/1592403115/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275843236&sr=8-8
- Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
- Joe Dunthorne
- Heather Phillipson
- http://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-40-passions-and-obsessions/poems/james-grieve/
- http://www.penpushermagazine.co.uk/magazine/extracts/article/284/
- John Barth
- Donald Barthelme
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sot-weed_factor
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/feb/17/fiction.reviews1
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