3 men in a boat left you cold????
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From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Abrupt Snap - What is the saddest book ever written?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:02:05 +0300
if we're talking funny (which I haven't read many of either),Woody
Allen's short stories kill me
KS
On 26/04/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>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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