Favorite Funny Author?
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Re: Favorite Funny Author?
Christopher Moore can be hilarious. "Sorry, Couldn't be helped" (from Sacre Bleu)
Never heard of Augustin Burroughs.
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Yes indeed.
Yes, me too: my favourite is the one about the British and their puddings, which I won't repeat here.lifelongreader wrote: ↑27 Apr 2007, 06:36 Bill Bryson makes me laugh out loud - and makes me want to share his funny turns of phrase with others, which can be a bit odd when you are on public transport.
Yup, another favourite – though I stopped hunting them down after five or six, I think – I would still read one if I stumbled across it.
Another laugh-out-loud one for me is Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (didn't like the sequel quite so much)
I also like quiet, understated humour, as in Jane Austen, especially perhaps Emma, though Northanger Abbey, her skit on Gothic novels is also very amusing.
I love P.G. Wodehouse. One of my favourite lines concerns the character Psmith (pronounced “Smith”) so what he says to people is: “My name is Psmith – the P is silent.” That creased me up when I was a teenager. Then there's the (Bertie Wooster &) Jeeves stories, of course – but not too many at once. I love the Blandings Castle books. Finally, there's a great bit about the town where I grew up
it's quite a nice place, really.In my early touring days I have sometimes arrived at Southport on a rainy Sunday morning. Gussie gave me that same sense of hopeless desolation.
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