Re: [book_talk] Funny books
- From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:43:03 -0700
A Christmas Story is on bookshare. It's now on my book list for future
reading. The Ferrari In The Bedroom and the Wanda Hickey book are also
there. They are both wonderful. I can vividly remember laughing and
sympathizing with Jean's plight in the Wanda Hickey book!
Rosemarie
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On Behalf Of JOHN HUFFMAN
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 4:32 PM
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Jean Shepherd's one of my favorites, and I've read 3 or 4 of his
collections. He's also partly responsible for my personal favorite among
holiday movies, "A Christmas story."
Cheers! JH
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On Behalf Of Rosemarie Grayley
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 3:41 PM
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Subject: [book_talk] Funny books
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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On Behalf Of Audrey
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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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