Comic Relief

[carrie's younger brother]

Need a laugh? Need a short break from the Emperor of Ice Cream? Then I have a couple funny novels to recommend. The first is an author from my hometown that I've met twice. Her first novel, called Coming Attractions (and later named Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man) is so funny that I had tears in my eyes. It is quintessential southern fare mixed with ribald and irreverent humor of a child narrator. The author is Fannie Flagg.
The other author is Clyde Edgerton. I'm recommending A Walk Across Egypt and Raney. Both are hilarious.
I'm a librarian and try to read in many genres and I'm open to any suggestions for comic novels. Any favorites?

I have no doubt Fannie Flagg is a good author. But the first thing I think of when I read/hear her name is this, with the fondest of memories.

 

[Doc Creed]

I have no doubt Fannie Flagg is a good author. But the first thing I think of when I read/hear her name is this, with the fondest of memories.

Yes, I have seen them all repeatedly. Gene Rayburn was so child like and they all were hysterical when they made fun of him. Great show.

 

[Kurben]

No question in my book. I always laugh when i read three men in a boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Hilarious. Also P.G. Wodehouse. Money in the Bank, Aunts aren't Gentlemen, The Mating Season, The Code of the Woosters, Joy in the Morning and Right Ho, Jeeves are all Very funny.

 

[Dana Jean]

I'm partial to Christopher Moore. I've read and enjoyed Lamb (The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal); Fool; Bloodsucking Fiends; You Suck; Bite Me; and A Dirty Job. Funny, irreverent, sometimes (well, a lot of times) bizarre, but always charming in an offbeat way. Plus, he writes well.

Fool was my favorite of those listed.

 

[doowopgirl]

Need a laugh? Need a short break from the Emperor of Ice Cream? Then I have a couple funny novels to recommend. The first is an author from my hometown that I've met twice. Her first novel, called Coming Attractions (and later named Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man) is so funny that I had tears in my eyes. It is quintessential southern fare mixed with ribald and irreverent humor of a child narrator. The author is Fannie Flagg.
The other author is Clyde Edgerton. I'm recommending A Walk Across Egypt and Raney. Both are hilarious.
I'm a librarian and try to read in many genres and I'm open to any suggestions for comic novels. Any favorites?

Whenever I need cheering up I read Fannie Flagg. I love her characters. They are funny and sympathetic without being twee. I've never read Clyde Edgerton, but I will. Thanks.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Would love that! And you get the same offer for the northern King and proper seafood (unless you're one of those who doesn't like it).

I love seafood, and that Whoopie Pie Place - take me there too! Lobster & Whoopie Pie

 

[Moderator]

I love seafood, and that Whoopie Pie Place - take me there too! Lobster & Whoopie Pie

It's a deal!

 

[Doc Creed]

I love seafood, and that Whoopie Pie Place - take me there too! Lobster & Whoopie Pie

I visited Maine for the first time in August. Had lobster for the first time, too, at Red's Seafood. Drove up Route 1 to Bath, Belfast, Rockland, Camden, and Ellsworth. Stayed in Bangor but couldn't find the Standpipe. I didn't understand the one way streets at first and there were cops everywhere. Next time I'm going to eat at Sea Dog's and Dysart's. You'll love it. It was strange driving through Bangor which was like walking into the book 'It'.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I visited Maine for the first time in August. Had lobster for the first time, too, at Red's Seafood. Drove up Route 1 to Bath, Belfast, Rockland, Camden, and Ellsworth. Stayed in Bangor but couldn't find the Standpipe. I didn't understand the one way streets at first and there were cops everywhere. Next time I'm going to eat at Sea Dog's and Dysart's. You'll love it. It was strange driving through Bangor which was like walking into the book 'It'.

That sounds so very exciting! I'll go to all of those places. And the Whoopie Pie Place. Did you go there?

 

[Neesy]

He's that cat wrote TRAINSPOTTING. Uses a lot of phonetically spelled Scottish brogue that can be challenging at first, but once you wrap yer head around it it's great.

Maybe I should read this - it might help me to translate what my husband is saying.

 

[Doc Creed]

That sounds so very exciting! I'll go to all of those places. And the Whoopie Pie Place. Did you go there?

No, I didn't. I really wanted to. I think I was a little tired because I drove 7 thousand miles in 2 weeks and was exhausted on some days. But had a blast. Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont is everything people promise it will be and more.

 

[CYRUS]

Jurgen by James Branch Cabell Comic fantasy novel written in 1919 and once widely read. Set in the fictional medieval french province of Poictesme . It's the story of unhappily married man by the name of Jurgen who wishes he could made a better choices with his life an whom he married. He get's his wish and that things really get complicated for him. Cabell wrote 50 fantasy novels in all 17 of them are lest in the local Poicteme. He was a master or Ironic humor.

His most famous quote " The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds an the pessimist fears that this is true"