Unreliable Memoirs & Falling Toward England were both hilarious.
3 Men in a Boat left me cold.
Bill Hicks is funny, however that was too much information there.
A terrifying book is Touching The Void - nearly every page turn is,
"no, eww, you cannot do that!"
Roger
On 4/26/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> have you ever read Testament To Youth ? gaspingly achingly sad and yet
> redemptive with the soldiers arriving at the field station with stories of
> angels they had seen on the battlefield - or should I say above the
> battlefield? they seemed to be usually hovering above
>
> I don't know any of the writers you mention - but writers who have made me
> laugh out loud while I am reading them are Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men In A
> Boat) Thurber (I was reading him on my first visit to Venice last year and I
> was having Thurber screams on the Grand Canal )and Clive James - Unreliable
> Memoirs.
>
> Also I always beg the son not to put a Bill Hicks video on because he makes
> me wet myself and beg for mercy.
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Abrupt Snap
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:02:49 +0100
>
> At the time, "Post Office" was dangerously funny for me, though I haven't
> read Bukowski since. I didn't have an extremely sad experience during that
> stay in the hospital, so I'm a bit surprised your husband had an equally
> painful physiological experience with a very sad book.
>
> If a writer can make me laugh hysterically during a live reading (examples
> which come to mind right now include Ed Dorn, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman,
> Christian Bok, & Jaap Blonk), I consider that reaction as a marker of high
> quality.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:20:14 +1000, Jennifer Compton
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Is Post Office funny? I have been meaning to read that for a while.
> >
> >You made me remember husband in hospital for 2 hernias. He begged for
> books
> >that weren't funny so I got him Testament Of Youth by Vera Brittain, which
> >is the saddest book I know.
> >But it was no good. He told me that weeping was as painful as laughing.
> >
> >cheers - jen
>
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