which I've just read for the 2nd time is "The Matchmaker of Perigord" by Julia Stuart.
It might be a bit hard to find, I only found it by accident in a 2nd hand shop.
It's a bit hard to describe, but it's about "a village so ugly even the English refuse to live there" and some of its bizarre inhabitants.
I was so taken with it the first time that I wrote a fan letter to the author, not something I'd ever done before (not surprising seeing most of the authors I read are dead). And I was amazed to get a nice email in reply.

Funny books?  Can't go past Pratchett.  Reading the latest, "Raising Steam" at the moment.  "Mr. Dripping"!  Brilliant!   :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D

|dev|null wrote on Nov 19^th, 2013 at 3:03pm:

:D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D

You are very even tempered, aren't you? No matter what you say, it all has the same laffing, swivel eyed mood to it. A bit sickly and odd, no?

Are you unwell? Speaking about it can make a difference, you know. Talk about it, you'll feel better.

I read a book about this once, lunatics being unaware of their affliction.  You remind me of that book. It was both funny and sad.

:)
ahhhhh humor   :)

I admit my own particular 'humor' is unique.. I think most people have unique 'humor'... 

..we are really only comfortable with humor if it gels with our own uniqueness.
Of course we change over time..  I know that something I detested 20 yrs ago, now makes me chuckle.

Humor evolves with us, as we go thru life.

Those who adore asinine  :) antics  (ahh alliteration) are actually adolescent aholes..   :)

The Best of Beachcomber. (The TV series World of Beachcomber with Spike Milligan was brilliant too)

I read a very sweet book many many years ago it was lent to me by a lady on a ship we were travelling on to England..have no idea what it was called but it was about a quaint English village and one family in particular

but the author described these meals.. now the way he/she did it made you feel as if you were sitting at the table enjoying every mouthful..it was an amazing book.. I havent seen food described like it again..you could see it smell it and taste it.

P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books. 

bogarde73 wrote on Nov 16^th, 2013 at 8:20am:

which I've just read for the 2nd time is "The Matchmaker of Perigord" by Julia Stuart. It might be a bit hard to find, I only found it by accident in a 2nd hand shop. It's a bit hard to describe, but it's about "a village so ugly even the English refuse to live there" and some of its bizarre inhabitants. I was so taken with it the first time that I wrote a fan letter to the author, not something I'd ever done before (not surprising seeing most of the authors I read are dead). And I was amazed to get a nice email in reply.

12 bucks, delivered to your door:

http://www.bookdepository.com/Matchmaker-Perigord-Julia-Stuart/9780552773638

dare I say,,
nearly any Janet Evanovich tale about
the feral female bountyhunter, at al. 
what's her name again .. oh yeah

Stephanie Plum.   :)

sorry it is American.. 
in ..fact.. probably couldn't find a more American series.

Soren wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 10:00am:

P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books.

Agree

Soren wrote on Nov 27^th, 2013 at 9:34pm:

|dev|null wrote on Nov 19th, 2013 at 3:03pm:    :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D You are very even tempered, aren't you? No matter what you say, it all has the same laffing, swivel eyed mood to it. A bit sickly and odd, no? Are you unwell? Speaking about it can make a difference, you know. Talk about it, you'll feel better. I read a book about this once, lunatics being unaware of their affliction.  You remind me of that book. It was both funny and sad.

If you can't see the joke mate, you need to think a bit less.  Your problem Soren is that you wear your antipathy to life on your sleeve and have to make us all look at it, all the time.   :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D

OK OK  for another ..recommend anything by Carl Hiaasen ..talk about the ultimate drop out..  these are excellent.

Anti-est. hero par excellence..  :)

|dev|null wrote on Dec 5^th, 2013 at 1:15pm:

|dev|null wrote on Nov 19th, 2013 at 3:03pm:    :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D  :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CIACqpidRM





Anyway, I am trying to think of other funny books but cannot come up with anything better than P.G. Wodehouse's.

For those who are unfamiliar with him, here's a very good introduction to him by the late Christopher Hitchens, from The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/11/the-honorable-schoolboy/303563/

Not related to books but anyway . . .

Marty Feldman: "I could have been anything . . .I could have driven a poof-poof"

|dev|null wrote on Dec 5^th, 2013 at 1:15pm:

Your problem Soren is that you wear your antipathy to life on your sleeve and have to make us all look at it, all the time.   :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D

Titto, old girl,  you are ridiculously self-conceited, like most tendentious, preening progs, to imagine that antipathy towards you is antipathy towards life itself.

while this is undoubtedly true Soren, it rreeeaaaalllllyyyyyy isn't on-topic is it.?

Soren wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:21pm:

|dev|null wrote on Dec 5th, 2013 at 1:15pm: Your problem Soren is that you wear your antipathy to life on your sleeve and have to make us all look at it, all the time.   :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D Titto, old girl,  you are ridiculously self-conceited, like most tendentious, preening progs, to imagine that antipathy towards you is antipathy towards life itself.

Not just me.  Antipathy towards everything you disagree with.  You can't just disagree, you have to actively hate it or them or me.  Doesn't matter who or what it is, you're jumping up and down screaming your hatred at it.   :D :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :D :D :D

I hoped we were going to talk about funny books.

bogarde73 wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 10:34am:

I hoped we were going to talk about funny books.

I did.  Poor Soren though, had to make a personal attack.  He had to try and be the centre of attention.  Just couldn't bear it that people were looking at something other than him and his pet hates!   ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D ;D

|dev|null wrote on Dec 10^th, 2013 at 1:30pm:

Soren wrote on Dec 6th, 2013 at 2:21pm: |dev|null wrote on Dec 5th, 2013 at 1:15pm: Your problem Soren is that you wear your antipathy to life on your sleeve and have to make us all look at it, all the time.   :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D :D ;D Titto, old girl,  you are ridiculously self-conceited, like most tendentious, preening progs, to imagine that antipathy towards you is antipathy towards life itself. Not just me.  Antipathy towards everything you disagree with.  You can't just disagree, you have to actively hate it or them or me.  Doesn't matter who or what it is, you're jumping up and down screaming your hatred at it.   :D :D :D :D ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :D :D :D

Can't I now openly dislike who and what I want to???

Is my antipathy now subject to approval by some prog committee of the nod??

bogarde73 wrote on Dec 4^th, 2013 at 9:32am:

Soren wrote on Dec 3rd, 2013 at 10:00am: P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books.  Agree

Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to have to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover. The sort of girl who reduces you to pulp with sixteen sets of tennis and a few rounds of golf and then comes down to dinner as fresh as a daisy, expecting you to take an intelligent interest in Freud.


We all know at least one Honoria.

Christ ...and i thought goober was slow ::)

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