[book_talk] Funny books
- From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:41:24 -0700
Jean Shepherd has written some funny stuff. Hope you like his books and find
some good laughs in them.
Have you read The Undomestic Goddess? It has some truly funny scenes in it.
Death Of A Glutton by Beaton has a hysterically funny scene in it too. Be
warned, don't read it while eating.
I'll check out the Jenny Lawson book. Sounds good.
Rosemarie
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This Shepherd stuff sounds like a definite one I want next for making me
laugh.
Right now I'm in the middle of a pretty funny book by Jenny Lawson, called,
Let's Pretend This Never Happened.
I could relate to some of the very rural isloated, omigosh, "how am I going
to ever explain this," situations. The funny in hindsight episodes of
realizations of just how crazy different your family is/was, when you find
yourself telling stories of your life.
It is crazy different yet also similar on lots of universal levels. Audrey
PS Happy Easter!
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From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 3:15 PM
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RoseMarie, this was the first one i've read by him, he sure could tell a
story, Don
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From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 2:31 PM
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> I've read several books by this wonderful author. Not this one though.
> I'll
> add it to my book list and keep a sharp eye out for it.
>
> A truly funny man.
>
> Rosemarie
>
>
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> On Behalf Of Don Marr
> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 6:52 AM
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>
> a fistful of fig newtons by Jean shepherd,
> first the anotation,
> Jean Shepherd was one of America's favorite humorists, his most notable
> achievement being the creation of the indefatigable Ralphie Parker and his
> quest for a BB gun in the holiday classic A Christmas Story. But he was so
> much more, a comic Garrison Keillor-like figure whose unique voice
> transcended the airwaves and affected a whole generation of nostalgic
> Americans. A Fistful of Fig Newtons is classic Jean
> Shepherd--sidesplittingly funny and sardonically irreverent. Here are
> Shepherd's wild and wacky adventures, a dozen truer-than-life tales of
> college life on the G.I. Bill, of "Kidhood" in Hammond, Indiana, of
> tailgating on the Jersey Turnpike, and of other familiar defeats and
> humilations. It is a brilliant comic assessment of American life--all of
> them delivered in Jean Shepherd's witty, classy, unforgettable style.
>
>
> now my comments, this was a great and funny book, as i was growing up in
> the
> 50's and 60's, used to lie in bed at night and listen to Jean on W O R in
> Ny, guy was a riot, he was a real good storyteller, anyone who has a
> chance
> to llisten to him, or his radio shows, or read his books, go for it, you
> won't be disappointed, , Don
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>
>
>
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