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creekster · 11-14-2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte

. . . though he's no Dan Brown and probaby never was.

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

FarrahWaters · 11-13-2007, 02:21 AM

I was just talking to Marsupial the other day about Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Very, very funny.

Jeff Lebowski · 11-13-2007, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by FarrahWaters

I was just talking to Marsupial the other day about Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Very, very funny.

I concur with this. Hilarious book.

Mrs. Funk · 11-15-2007, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by FarrahWaters

I was just talking to Marsupial the other day about Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Very, very funny.

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.

TripletDaddy · 11-13-2007, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by OrangeUte

i am in need of a finding a humorous laugh out loud kind of book. preferrably something fiction, but i'm not picky. any suggestions?

"Letters From a Nut" by Ted L Nancy.

I basically had to stop reading it on the airplane because my stomach was hurting so bad from laughing. I was finding new ways to embarrass my wife as I laughed my way out loud through the book. I even had tears coming down.

Ted L Nancy is a fictitious author who has published a few things.

The book is a compendium of actual letters Ted has written to businesses, hotels, restaurants, Fortune 500 companies, etc....the letters are ridiculous, sometimes incoherent, and complete nonsense.....the humor is in the actual responses he gets from these companies.

It is one of the funniest books I have read in a long time.

FMCoug · 11-13-2007, 02:34 AM

"The Book of Mormon"

Sincerely,

SeattleUte

creekster · 11-13-2007, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

"Letters From a Nut" by Ted L Nancy.

I basically had to stop reading it on the airplane because my stomach was hurting so bad from laughing. I was finding new ways to embarrass my wife as I laughed my way out loud through the book. I even had tears coming down.

Ted L Nancy is a fictitious author who has published a few things.

The book is a compendium of actual letters Ted has written to businesses, hotels, restaurants, Fortune 500 companies, etc....the letters are ridiculous, sometimes incoherent, and complete nonsense.....the humor is in the actual responses he gets from these companies.

It is one of the funniest books I have read in a long time.

Ted is supposedly Jerry Seinfeld. There are a couple of volumes of these and they are indeed pretty funny.

woot · 11-13-2007, 03:07 AM

This is probably obvious, but all of Douglas Adams' HGttG books are must-reads if you're after the funny.

TripletDaddy · 11-13-2007, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Ted is supposedly Jerry Seinfeld. There are a couple of volumes of these and they are indeed pretty funny.

Yes, I have read that. In fact, it is Jerry who wrote the preface to Letters...so they could be one and the same. I like the romanticized notion of an anonymous author.

However, i think it is fair to say that the humor in LFAN is anything but what you are used to on Seinfeld. LFAN is basically complete lunacy.

SeattleUte · 11-13-2007, 04:12 AM

Money or London Fields, by Martin Amis. I promise you'll laugh all the way through Money. Agree with Catch-22 and the Book of Mormon, although the D&C is funnier. Although ultimately they are tragic novels The Brothers Karamazov, 100 Years of Solitude, Blood Meridian, The Kruetzer Sonata, The Stranger, and Platform (Michel Houellebecq) all have hilarious moments. Woody Allen has written some funny novels.

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SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	Money or London Fields, by Martin Amis. I promise you'll laugh all the way through Money. Agree with Catch-22 and the Book of Mormon, although the D&C is funnier. Although ultimately they are tragic novels The Brothers Karamazov, 100 Years of Solitude, Blood Meridian, The Kruetzer Sonata, The Stranger, and Platform (Michel Houellebecq) all have hilarious moments. Woody Allen has written some funny novels. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

11-13-2007, 02:21 AM	#2
FarrahWaters Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,122	I was just talking to Marsupial the other day about Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Very, very funny.

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FMCoug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kaysville, UT Posts: 3,151	"The Book of Mormon" Sincerely, SeattleUte

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woot Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Denver Posts: 1,502	This is probably obvious, but all of Douglas Adams' HGttG books are must-reads if you're after the funny.