Once Peanut complained to me about reading that "no book could ever make you laugh out loud." This was probably seven or eight years ago, and ever since then I remember his staunch resolution whenever a book makes me laugh out loud. This happened several times last night while reading Book II of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. This guy is one funny SOB. I can't give you any quotes, because it's always after a long set up in the context of the book.
I'm not wont to review a book I'm less than half way through, but yesterday was the worst day of my life until I picked it up, and then it turned into the best. Hugely uplifting. My mother is the best book recommender/lender ever, except for when my father is. The link in the first paragraph gives you the entire book, incidentally. It's not really stealing since Lewis's dead.
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On a much lighter note, may I recommend the works of John Scalzi, whose two science fiction books have a bit of a Robert Heinlein feel to them. The first one is Old Man's War, at which I laughed as hard as I have an any book, and the sequel is Ghost Brigades. BTW, mama's reaction to Ghost Brigades was "meh".
Another really funny book is anything by P. J. O'Rourke.
a google search for p j o'rourke quotes sure yields some funny ones. do you have those scalzi books? maybe mama could bring them over for me to read!
no, i got them from the library, and i don't think they are out in paperback yet. so just file it away as a future read.
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