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A very funny book
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.

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\|dev\|null Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4434 Gender:	Re: A very funny book Reply #1 - Nov 19^th, 2013 at 3:03pm Funny books? Can't go past Pratchett. Reading the latest, "Raising Steam" at the moment. "Mr. Dripping"! Brilliant!
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Reply #2 - Nov 27^th, 2013 at 9:34pm

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

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.

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Reply #3 - Nov 28^th, 2013 at 11:29pm

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..

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: A very funny book Reply #4 - Nov 29^th, 2013 at 12:41pm The Best of Beachcomber. (The TV series World of Beachcomber with Spike Milligan was brilliant too)
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Reply #5 - Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 8:51am

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.

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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: A very funny book Reply #6 - Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 10:00am P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books.
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Reply #7 - Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 10:06am

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

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Emma Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9853 OZ Gender:	Re: A very funny book Reply #8 - Dec 4^th, 2013 at 12:12am 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.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: A very funny book Reply #9 - Dec 4^th, 2013 at 9:32am Soren wrote on Dec 3^rd, 2013 at 10:00am: P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves books. Agree
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Reply #10 - Dec 5^th, 2013 at 1:15pm

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

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

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. Cheesy

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Emma Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9853 OZ Gender:	Re: A very funny book Reply #11 - Dec 5^th, 2013 at 8:53pm OK OK for another ..recommend anything by Carl Hiaasen ..talk about the ultimate drop out.. these are excellent. Anti-est. hero par excellence..
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Reply #12 - Dec 5^th, 2013 at 9:20pm

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

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

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/3035...

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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: A very funny book Reply #13 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 10:44am Not related to books but anyway . . . Marty Feldman: "I could have been anything . . .I could have driven a poof-poof"
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Reply #14 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:21pm

|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. Cheesy

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

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