• Funny books

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:13 pm**

Off to Greece for couple of weeks next week and wondering if anyone can recommend a good light hearted,humorous books. Think we need cheering up after a few weeks of reading the bitterness of the exchanges from some on this forum.

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:26 pm**

Driving over lemons

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:26 pm**

Would certainly recommend the Alan Partridge books, if that’s your thing!

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:30 pm**

Bill Bryson. The Road To Little Dribbling.
His second tour of England book after Notes On A Small Island.

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:36 pm**

Pies and prejudice by Stuart Maconie

Posted: **Mon Jul 02, 2018 8:45 pm**

TheOriginalLongsider wrote:Driving over lemons

Read that a few years ago and enjoyed it. Wasn’t it written by an ex member of a famous rock group

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:44 am**

Catch 22
Anything by Terry Pratchett!

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:06 am**

The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared; or The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden. Both by the same Norwegian author whose name I can't remember. (Nothing at all to do with the Girl with the Dragon tattoo.)

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:11 am**

Round Ireland with a Fridge. It's fairly old but if you haven't read it worth a look. Especially if you have ever been over there.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:37 am**

I definitely recommend Yes Man. Not only is Danny Wallace brilliantly funny, it changed my life as it made me think differently about opportunities. It's far better than the film, before anyone asks.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:16 pm**

Alot of big words in it but I have been reading The Secret Barrister.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:31 pm**

Not another book about coffee?

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:41 pm**

Bullabill wrote:Not another book about coffee?

On the same lines as "The Quiet Americano" and "Murder on the Orient Espresso"?

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:57 pm**

Depending on how old you are Spike Milligan's series surrounding World War 2 are hilarious, sad and tragic but without being too deep.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:37 pm**

Hendrickxz wrote:Round Ireland with a Fridge. It's fairly old but if you haven't read it worth a look. Especially if you have ever been over there.

Was just about to post the same.

Excellent light hearted book

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:02 pm**

Two books I would heartily recommend are
This is going to hurt by Adam Kay and We had some laughs by Dan Waddell.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:35 pm**

piston broke wrote:Bill Bryson. The Road To Little Dribbling.
His second tour of England book after Notes On A Small Island.

Ugh, really?

I found the first paragraph funny about the parking barrier and that was it.

I found it a half arsed, can't be arsed to go more than 30 miles from my home in London, insult to the first one.

Notes from a small island I would thoroughly recommend.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:54 pm**

starting_11 wrote: I found it a half arsed, can't be arsed to go more than 30 miles from my home in London, insult to the first one.

Don’t get you. He travels all over.

Posted: **Tue Jul 03, 2018 8:16 pm**

He doesn't.

Re-read it

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:38 am**

Marney&Mee wrote:Pies and prejudice by Stuart Maconie

Horses for courses. My daughter passed this on to me a while back. I’ve read the first chapter twice, Beautiful South, and gave up to it. On your recommendation I tried again but skipped chapter 1. I still haven’t found a smile in it.
I told the daughter and she says “I didn’t like it but I thought you might”. Ah well!

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2018 6:34 am**

Joe Buck wrote:Read that a few years ago and enjoyed it. Wasn’t it written by an ex member of a famous rock group

Chris Stewart. He was in Genesis before they were famous. If you liked that book then he has done a few more since

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:11 am**

A Good man in Africa by William Boyd.

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:52 am**

Again depending on how old you are "the moons a balloon" David Nivens account of his life and relationships in the film world is a very good read his experiences with Errol Flynn were hilarious.

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2025 10:29 pm**

Why Me ?
Neil Forsyth.
"The very important emails of Bob Servant".
Just reading this for the second time, makes me "laugh out loud"

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 3:29 am**

JohnMac wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:57 pm
Depending on how old you are Spike Milligan's series surrounding World War 2 are hilarious, sad and tragic but without being too deep.

Yep, 'Hitler, my part in his downfall' had me in stitches.

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:28 am**

Some good recommendations here too :
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Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:38 am**

Although wrote in the 1800s I never see Diary of a Nobody on these threads so I will add that

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:06 am**

Hendrickxz wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:11 am
Round Ireland with a Fridge. It's fairly old but if you haven't read it worth a look. Especially if you have ever been over there.

Agree this is good as his another book by Tony Hawkes, Playing the Moldovans at tennis.

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:08 am**

You can’t go wrong with the classics :
Three men in a boat by Jerome K Jerome
Most things by PG Wodehouse especially the Jeeves books

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:38 am**

Once again I will mention A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Laugh out loud funny.

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:10 am**

Mondsley wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:11 am
A Good man in Africa by William Boyd.

Great call. Read that in a former life and loved it.

Although it doesn't read well from a PC point of view, Evelyn Waugh's "Scoop" also about Africa is an excellent comedy.

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 12:13 pm**

Just read "The Accidental Soldier" by Owain Mulligan. Described as "A non-fiction Catch 22". A very funny read.

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:17 pm**

Hendrickxz wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:11 am
Round Ireland with a Fridge. It's fairly old but if you haven't read it worth a look. Especially if you have ever been over there.

Was just about to recommend the same book. This one's a classic

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:56 pm**

Hitler was my mother-in-law...... Les Dawson..

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 2:02 pm**

If you've got audible I can highly recommend Only Fools and Horses - first 16 episodes package.

Translates extremely well as a listen, and would probably have worked as a radio show as well.

If you listen at work, bear in mind you will be constantly laughing out loud.

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