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
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.
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
Almost all of Edward Abbey's nonfiction leaves me in stitches.
I forgot about James Herriot. His books always make me laugh.
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
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.Originally Posted by Weisinheimer
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
[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.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.
- Mark Twain
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! )
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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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.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
John Barrowman Biography. It had me in tears of laughter.
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