Hi everyone what are your favorite funny non fiction books. mine are Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein and Winterdance by Gary Paulsen The only 2 nonfiction books I've ever read that really made me laugh. Thanks Kenney
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Hi everyone what are your favorite funny non fiction books. mine are Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein and Winterdance by Gary Paulsen The only 2 nonfiction books I've ever read that really made me laugh. Thanks Kenney
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson - Brilliant, funny and informative. Everything education can and should be.
I guess many biographies, Stephen Fry's and Clive James' autobiographies come to mind.
I don't read much non-fiction, but The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs was pretty hilarious.
Almost all of Edward Abbey's nonfiction leaves me in stitches.
I forgot about James Herriot. His books always make me laugh.
Culture and Anarchy.
Hilarious stuff.
James Herriot, yes! And Gerald Durrell. I also like Bill Bryson (not all of them, since I know that I found him mean-spirited in one book at least). His Shakespeare biography is not bad.
There's another book I found side-splittingly witty, about evolution seen (for the first time, I think) from a woman's perspective (and which answers Desmond Morris' The Naked Ape), but I can't remember its name!!!
I've laughed out loud, embarrasingly and in public on two occasions when reading.
Once with Clive James' Unreliable Memoirs.
Once with Spike milligan's Hitler and my part in his downfall.
I almost bought that book last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weisinheimer
[QUOTE=Bitterfly;646663]James Herriot, yes! And Gerald Durrell. I also like Bill Bryson (not all of them, since I know that I found him mean-spirited in one book at least). His Shakespeare biography is not bad.
I thought he was a bit off in a few of his booksas well. Glad it was not just me.
I haven't read "A Short History..." I have sworn off Bryson. I wearied of his predictable political soapbox interruptions to otherwise funny stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tallon
I was disappointed with the Bryson books i read after Short History, i can't say enough good things about that book though.
Yes Man by Danny Wallace is hillarious! The things that man has done!
(the movie is a complete rewrite and looks crap! )
Stephen Fry's biography Moab is My Washpot and his book on poetry and prosody, The Ode Less Travelled. Absolutely hilarious stuff. Fry is our contemporary Oscar Wilde and Wodehouse rolled into one.
John Barrowman Biography. It had me in tears of laughter.