Good thing, or I wouldn't like him too much.

Me Talk Pretty One Day is wonderful. Hysterical. I read "Big Boy" last night and about died. Yeah, Sedaris is rampantly gay, but he's a good writer. Not that good writing and homosexuality are mutually exclusive.

After reading letters from a nut I sent wanted to see if people would take letters like that seriously.

I wrote a letter to the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, that said my friend and I had just returned from a weekend of gambling and relaxing at their fine establishment. However on our return flight home we decided that we needed to make one more bet, just to round out the trip. So we bet $1000 between ourselves as to which one of us could pick the color closest to black out of a box of Crayola 64 crayons.

I then added a lengthy paragraph about how I had been credited with being very smart at colors from an early age, and using this color knowledge I picked out brown. And declared myself the winner. My friend picked navy blue and declared himself the winner. I then said that I was sending this letter to the Casino Manager to decide our wager and we both agreed to take their decision as binding.

I got back a letter from the MGM Casino manager that went into great detail about how she had decided our bet. It included a story about how she would often attempt to get dressed in the dark in the early morning hours so as to not wake her husband. She had three pairs of identical shoes in black, brown and navy. On these dark mornings when she was hoping to get black shoes but picked wrong she always ended up wearing blue shoes. She concluded the letter by saying that she had no idea if my letter was serious or not but it was the most interesting she had ever received.

That sounds a lot like The Lazlo Letters, a book written several years ago by Don Novello, the guy who played Father Guido Sarducci on SNL. It was a hysterical book.

For humorous fiction, I enjoy Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.

That's a great story.

i read those when i was growing up - do you know if they are still in print? i would like to get those for my sons.

Yes, they are still in print. I bought them for my boys a couple of years ago at a Barnes and Noble close to my house.

Great books.

This novel was picked by the NY Times as one of the 10 best books of the year, and I read the first chapter in the Times. It was pretty damn funny. I think I'll pick it up when it is issued in paper.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031...pf_rd_i=507846

my mother just recommended this book to me. i am going to read it - thanks for the post.