Re: [book_talk] Funny books
- From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:02:23 -0700
Shepherd also wrote the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash. It's on
bookshare too. I'm surprised there aren't any books of his on BARD.
Bill Bryson wrote a book about his childhood a few years back called The
Thunderbolt Kid. It was probably much exaggerated and quite amusing.
I also like Mark Twain's exaggerations, especially about California. There
is a collection of his and Brett Hart's California essays on BARD.
I don't have any relatives like that. Not sure whether to be grateful or to
feel deprived. Grin.
Rosemarie
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I gotta get that one too.
I did hear the Death of a Glutton one, and there were some seriously "Oh
No!" scenes. Semi gagging and laughing too. A little of this in the Lawson
book as well, but I have to laugh thinking of all times I lived with some of
uncles & cousins, little brother.... Lol. Aud
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On Apr 1, 2013, at 2:41 PM, "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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> RoseMarie, this was the first one i've read by him, he sure could tell
> a story, Don
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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.
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>> A truly funny man.
>>
>> Rosemarie
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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.
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>> 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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