Favorite Laugh Out Loud Books

A Childs Garden of Grass ( not been read since the '70's though so it may not be so humorous)

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Shit my Dad Says

Any thing by A.J Jacobs

Anythings by Lewis Grizzard.

I need some help folks, I feel myself sliding...on top of everything else I have a staph infection and am breaking out from the sulfa drugs. I need HUMOR!

For some reason I hardly ever read funny books.
Somehow I am unlucky finding truly funny, not just stupid, but truly funny books. So I usually end up reading something like Art Linkletter "Kids Say Darndest Things"
http://www.amazon.ca/Kids-Say-Darndest-Things-Linkletter/dp/1587612496

but it really is funny.

Other books that never failed make me laugh in my youth were books by Gerald Durrell,
especially My Family and Other Animals
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Animals-Classic-Nature-Penguin/dp/014028902X/ref=cm_lmf_tit_4
but I loved them all

I LOVED !!! A Confederacy Of Dunces by JK Toole
http://www.curledup.com/dunces.htm

I am sure I will read this book again and again in future it's so interesting, bitter sweet and funny.

And Amazon says this book is funny:

http://www.amazon.com/About-Boy-Nick-Hornby/dp/1573227331/ref=cm_lmf_tit_6

I would start with Gerald Durrell for sure!


hugs {{{{for beig miser with staph infection}}}}


ps
I thought I help you look for some more:
http://www.abebooks.com/books/funniest-books.shtml

(hey, I see some titles of mine here (puffing up))

http://blog.betterworldbooks.com/2008/11/14/top-ten-fridays-comedy/

hope that helps!

Risa

Last night, Jerry Seinfeld was on Larry King Live. One of the interview segments highlighted a book he had created with another comedian (or the other comedian did himself, I forget). It was titled "Letters from a Nut" and now there's a new one "All New Letters from a Nut: Includes Lunatic Email Exchanges".

The author writes letters to corporations (like hotels, or food companies) proposing crazy ideas or requesting silly things. The books have those letters along with the very serious replies the companies send back. Here is an example from the Amazon site by someone who has read the first book.


Ted L. Nancy writes letter's. He writes to EVERYONE! He writes to hotels, with special requests. Requests that are so outrageous, it's funny that he is actually taken seriously by them. He may ask if he can bring some of his own furniture with him, or if he can have special security because he looks "just like Abe Lincoln", and it's so close to President's day that he doesn't want to get mobbed. He writes to Pet food companies telling them he has a 28 year old dog, and has been using their brand,and would they give him advice for senior dogs. He writes to candy bar companies, suggesting new names for candies,baseball card companies saying he has Mickey Mantle's toenail clippings, and so much more.
In some cases the responses are funnier than the letters. Some will brush him off politley, saying there are no reservations for the day he wants to visit, or they maybe interested in his clippings, could he send a polaroid of them, some send coupons for 50 cents off the candy but are not interested in any new names.
You can open up to any page and get a good laugh. But don't read the last letter first!! Save it for the end.
It's not a book that you can read again right away,or from cover to cover, as some of the letters do get a little repetative, but if you know someone who is a little down or laid up and could use a good laugh this is perfect.

The Darwin Awards Volume II made me laugh. It occurred to me when I was reading it that I could easily do something that stupid when in a migraine stranglehold. The last chapter had an explanation for why threads dealing with controversial subjects on internet forums eventually turn bad if the threads are not closed.