What again?

[papayahed]

I know, I know, how many times am I going to ask for suggestions?? (First time this year!!)

This time can anybody recommend a nice, fun, lighthearted entertaining piece of fluff? Without having naked men on the cover and not necessarily a complete love story. Or I wouldn't mind a book that is totally engrossing, like The Eight. And please no Classics!!!!

[Logos]

Dogrun (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671775421/sr=8-8/qid=1144593361/ref=pd_bbs_8/102-2879785-5071326?%5Fencoding=UTF8) by Arthur Nersesian is hilarious. A little bit hipster, a lot of dork, and the perfect amount of black humour :D

[The Unnamable]

can anybody recommend a nice, fun, lighthearted entertaining piece of fluff? ... And please no Classics!!!!
Ask for Tiffany on 0898 444 2020. Tell her ‘Big Al’ gave you her number. A ‘classic’ she ain’t.

[emily655321]

Two pieces of fluff I've read recently:

The Cheese Monkeys (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060507403/qid=1144597932/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6847052-0468600?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) by Chip Kidd (It's not at all bad. The ending's a piece of sploodge, but there are plenty of good lines in the middle.)

Me Talk Pretty One Day (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316776963/qid=1144597967/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6847052-0468600?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) by David Sedaris (Hoorah! I love David Sedaris. And I've been talking about this book non-stop since I read it. It's good for a solid couple of days of laughter and quotation-taking, anyway.)

[papayahed]

Ask for Tiffany on 0898 444 2020. Tell her ‘Big Al’ gave you her number. A ‘classic’ she ain’t.

She isn't my type, but does Tiffani have a brother?

[blp]

Ask for Tiffany on 0898 444 2020. Tell her ‘Big Al’ gave you her number. A ‘classic’ she ain’t.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Koa]

I'm reading this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670915602/203-3753541-1803145). It seems light enough, although I've read only some 30 pages so far so I can't recommend it with certainty. It doesn't seem bad and definitely the kind of smooth read I want right now.

[Riesa]

I like I Capture the Castle, and Cold Comfort Farm, light, entertaining, fun. They've been around a while so you may have read them already, if not, you might like them. :D

[Virgil]

I know, I know, how many times am I going to ask for suggestions?? (First time this year!!)

This time can anybody recommend a nice, fun, lighthearted entertaining piece of fluff? Without having naked men on the cover and not necessarily a complete love story. Or I wouldn't mind a book that is totally engrossing, like The Eight. And please no Classics!!!!
Finished The Sound and the Fury or just bored with it?

[papayahed]

Finished The Sound and the Fury or just bored with it?

Haven't finished it yet and I'm not bored with it. I'm going home over Easter and I need a fluff book for the plane. Besides I like to have a few books going at once.

[The Unnamable]

Haven't finished it yet and I'm not bored with it. I'm going home over Easter and I need a fluff book for the plane. Besides I like to have a few books going at once.
papayahed,
you seem to have a similar attitude to books as I have to women. The stewardesses usually serve as ‘plane fluff’ (especially on Thai Airways) and I like to have a few on the go at once, too. :D

[papayahed]

papayahed,
you seem to have a similar attitude to books as I have to women. The stewardesses usually serve as ‘plane fluff’ (especially on Thai Airways) and I like to have a few on the go at once, too. :D

you must be quit the stud.

[Truth_Told]

I know, I know, how many times am I going to ask for suggestions?? (First time this year!!)

This time can anybody recommend a nice, fun, lighthearted entertaining piece of fluff? Without having naked men on the cover and not necessarily a complete love story. Or I wouldn't mind a book that is totally engrossing, like The Eight. And please no Classics!!!!

there is always Ayn Rand "Anthem", its not really a love story, but love begins to play a role in the story, since it is suppose to be forbidden.

[Ryduce]

I would say something short like The Fall by Albert Camus or Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.


Although reading Camus on an Airplane might be a bad idea.

[Pensive]

Try Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone or The Hobbit.

[papayahed]

I would say something short like The Fall by Albert Camus or Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.


Although reading Camus on an Airplane might be a bad idea.


Heart of darkness? The Fall? Somehow these two don't strike me as "fluffy"

[Ryduce]

No,but they're good short reads for an Airplane.

[papayahed]

No,but they're good short reads for an Airplane.


That's true but I was going more for the fluff then plane reads.


Thanks everybody, I've made a list of your suggestions and a friend suggested Jennifer Weiner so I guess it depends on what's at the library (which generally isn't much)

[Koa]

Me Talk Pretty One Day (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316776963/qid=1144597967/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6847052-0468600?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) by David Sedaris (Hoorah! I love David Sedaris. And I've been talking about this book non-stop since I read it. It's good for a solid couple of days of laughter and quotation-taking, anyway.)


I saw that in a bookshop and it sounded familiar! ;) However I didn't even consider buying it cos it was in Italian and I'm posh, I don't read translations if I'm able to read the original if I want to ;)

[Isagel]

To late , but still - Stardust by Neil Gaiman, nice fairytale fluff that quotes Jon Donne and where chapters are called things like : Chapter one - In Which We Learn of the Village of Wall and the curious Thing That Occurs There Every Nine Years. No naked men, but a little bit romance.

And of course there is Raymond Chandler. I read something of his almost every vacation. Guilty, fluffy pleasure with guns.

[EAP]

Jennifer Weiner is okay. In Her Shoes was a good one.

[papayahed]

The library only had Dogrun (I was hoping for the Sedaris), I really didn't want to read it because it seemed like a "I'm a cool New Yorker and I'm better then everybody else" book. But I've read a few chapters and I think I'm hooked - exactly what I was looking for thanks Logos!

[papayahed]

OK, I was wrong that I was wrong, Dogrun is a tad bit of the "Im a cool New Yorker" vibe, but the story is pretty good so that can be overlooked.

[Logos]

Heh heh, did you get to the dust buster scene yet? :lol:

edit: and believe me, I don't usually go for the emo hipster 20something stuff either!

[papayahed]

Heh heh, did you get to the dust buster scene yet? :lol:

edit: and believe me, I don't usually go for the emo hipster 20something stuff either!

HaHa, yep that was pretty funny. I just finished the part where Sakko left Mary's apartment...This book is starting to make me not want to date anybody before I know they're complete history..

I still can't figure out how she ended up in a band...