Favorite Funny Author?
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Favorite Funny Author?
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- sleepydumpling
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Sigh... he died some time ago now but I am still mourning him. The only author I ever mourned like an old friend when he died.
If you would like a "starter" book for his humour, I can highly recommend "A Last Chance to See", which is a non-fiction book he wrote with zoologist Mark Carwardine. He and Mark travelled the world for the BBC tracking down almost extinct animals. Just the captions of the photos in the book alone have me chuckling. One of my favourites is "Across the horizon we spotted a not even remotely white, Northern White Rhinoceros making across the plains like a nimble young tank." I'm doing that from memory, so apologies if the quote isn't exact.
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I don't mean to be nasty to you Alison, i just can't stand Burroughs lol, sorry.
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