 | Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
Buy used from: $23.90 Sharpe is one of those writers who lulls you into thinking "nothing's happening" and then hits you over the head with a sentence that is so uproariously funny you can't stop laughing. If I wasn't already on the floor, I would have fallen on it.
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 | The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $3.74 Joseph Caldwell writes wonderful satire. In The Pig Did It, our hero has gone to Ireland to wallow in self-pity. Instead he wallows in pigs. And murder.
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 | The Uncle from Rome by Joseph Caldwell
Buy used from: $1.19 My favorite Joseph Caldwell book. In The Uncle From Rome, pokes marvelous fun at opera divas, at Neapolitan pride and, naturally, Tosca. Hilarious last paragraph.
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 | I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.78 If you liked Walk in the Woods, you'll love this book. (Which. btw, is by Bill Bryson, not Jaime J. Bru Iturralde.) After 20 long years, Bryson returns to America to hold up a mirror to our foibles. Two of the chapters made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.
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 | Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings by Harvard Lampoon
Buy used from: $0.85 You have to be a Tolkein buff to truly appreciate this book. There is a sentence on page 9 that made me laugh so hard it took two years for me to finish the book. (I couldn't get past it.)
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 | Bellwether by Connie Willis
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.68 If you like sci-fi, you will have a lot of fun with this book. Although Bellwether was intended to be taken (somewhat) seriously, there is one scene that had me in stitches.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $9.54 Douglas Adams is so wonderfully, so gloriously, so Britishally (huh?) clever that each sentence is an experience unto itself. All of the Hitchhiker's trilogy (in four parts) is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
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 | A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.96 Hold on to your hats, boys and girls, this ain't no Year in Provence. It's good old-fashioned, bawdy British humor of the kind Shakespeare loved (if only we could understand it).
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 | Heroics for Beginners by John Moore
Buy used from: $0.01 Wonderful, funny-bone tickling fantasy!
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