| Funny books 16:26 - Feb 25 with 4526 views | BrixtonBlue |
I was just thinking to myself that the funniest book I've ever read is Yes Man by Danny Wallace... then I realised I haven't actually read that many funny books. Anyone got any recommendations? |  |
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| Funny books on 04:09 - Feb 26 with 733 views | IPS_wich |
Danny Wallace started out as a side kick to Dave Gorman and pretty much copied his idea of taking quirky bets to the extreme...except Gorman is much funnier and a better writer. Most of these were both books and TV series.
I would recommend the following four from Gorman:
- Are you Dave Gorman? (a good read, but the accompanying TV show was funnier)
- Googlewhack Adventure (probably the best book)
- Versus the rest of the World (interesting more than funny)
- America Unchained (my favourite of his concepts - can you drive from one side of the US to the other without patronising a single chain store/hotel/restaurant/petrol station - turned into an award winning documentary film)
Also endorse the John O'Farrell suggestion earlier in the thread |  | | |
| Funny books on 06:08 - Feb 26 with 717 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Funny books on 04:09 - Feb 26 by IPS_wich |
Danny Wallace started out as a side kick to Dave Gorman and pretty much copied his idea of taking quirky bets to the extreme...except Gorman is much funnier and a better writer. Most of these were both books and TV series.
I would recommend the following four from Gorman:
- Are you Dave Gorman? (a good read, but the accompanying TV show was funnier)
- Googlewhack Adventure (probably the best book)
- Versus the rest of the World (interesting more than funny)
- America Unchained (my favourite of his concepts - can you drive from one side of the US to the other without patronising a single chain store/hotel/restaurant/petrol station - turned into an award winning documentary film)
Also endorse the John O'Farrell suggestion earlier in the thread |
You're incorrect. Wallace and Gorman were flatmates and their first book "Are You Dave Gorman?" (which they co-wrote together) was the result of a bet set by Wallace to find 54 Dave Gormans.
I like both. | |
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| Funny books on 06:13 - Feb 26 with 713 views | IPS_wich |
| Funny books on 06:08 - Feb 26 by BrixtonBlue |
You're incorrect. Wallace and Gorman were flatmates and their first book "Are You Dave Gorman?" (which they co-wrote together) was the result of a bet set by Wallace to find 54 Dave Gormans.
I like both. |
Yet on the TV series he was very much relegated to the side kick role as Dave's flat mate.
I don't dispute he was probably involved a lot more than this and you are right he has co-author credit for the book - but for me DG is far funnier/wittier than DW both on screen and as an author.
I didn't mind 'Yes Man' but thought it far less amusing than the other DG efforts.
But not looking to start an argument - just stating my opinion on the two. | | | |
| Funny books on 06:17 - Feb 26 with 711 views | BrixtonBlue |
| Funny books on 06:13 - Feb 26 by IPS_wich |
Yet on the TV series he was very much relegated to the side kick role as Dave's flat mate.
I don't dispute he was probably involved a lot more than this and you are right he has co-author credit for the book - but for me DG is far funnier/wittier than DW both on screen and as an author.
I didn't mind 'Yes Man' but thought it far less amusing than the other DG efforts.
But not looking to start an argument - just stating my opinion on the two. |
I've got no problem with your opinion on how funny they are or how good they are as writers.
It was more your assertion that "Danny Wallace... pretty much copied his idea of taking quirky bets to the extreme," which isn't true. | |
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| Funny books on 13:15 - Feb 26 with 662 views | JonBlue |
Probably horribly out of fashion these days but Tom Sharpe books used to make me laugh out loud in my youth... |  | | |
| Funny books on 17:05 - Feb 26 with 633 views | MJallday |
David Thorne
You’ll find his stuff here
Www.27bslash6.com |  |
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| Funny books on 17:09 - Feb 26 with 630 views | StokieBlue |
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
Marvelous stuff.
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| Funny books on 17:27 - Feb 26 with 610 views | PhilTWTD |
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Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis |
I'll add Martin Amis's Money and London Fields. |  | | |
| Funny books on 17:29 - Feb 26 with 606 views | KBsSocks |
"An Insular Possession" by Timothy Mo.
A pretty serious novel set in times of the Opium Wars, but parts had me oh-so-jolly-amused; genuine LOLs. |  |
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