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I came to this book by way of the film. The book is a delightful set of essays about raising kids (boys), buying a home and working (writing). The book stands the test of time well, continuing to be funny and relevant. The book's only problem is that it is too short!

It's remarkable how undated this book reads: children are still driving their moms crazy, husbands still have jobs that wives have to work around, and women still have to fit their jobs around the rest of the family...Kerr writes about domestic life, work life (although she was self-employed as a writer, she didn't seem to have tons of free hours to devote to her craft-- and most of her plays didn't do that well; she is roughly comparable to an affluent working mom of today, doing many jobs, but none of them especially well). What I love most about this book, in these days of articles on supermoms and the "mommy-wars," is that Kerr doesn't pretend to be Mrs. Perfect, or even Mrs. Tries So Hard. She admits she wants to sleep till noon; and she is a faithful attendee at nearly every play her critic husband must review, because, as she puts it, "I have four young sons, so naturally I need to get out a lot." Funny, relevant, and somewhat neglected among the canon of humor writing--when WILL women be allowed to be funny?

An hilarious collection of essays by Jean Kerr , playwright, wife and mother. Very funny and unsentimental accounts of family life, full of wonderfully quotable lines. For instance, when she speaks of looking for a larger house "I wanted a house that would have four bedrooms for the boys, all of them located some distance from the living-room - say in the next country somewhere". Her comments on theatrical life are as funny as her comments on family life, as when she observes that the failure of a play, according to the producer, is always to be blamed on "that first-night audience". She understands children better than any child psychologist, as when she observes that you should never say to children "Are you trying to drive your poor moomy smack out of her mind?" Of course they are, but do you think they'll admit it?" A funny, funny book.

well, maybe my title is going a bit too far, but this book has long been one of my favorites. it is not a well known book, despite having had a tv show and movie based on it. i think it is sad, since this collection of stories deserves to be known by all. it is not deep reading, by any means, as the title most assuredly reveals, but it is fun reading, reading that will take your mind off things. the stories in this book are a collection of jean kerr's various magazine articles reflecting on her life, her family, and the always amusing events that surround her. this book may have been written in the fifties, but most of the things she discusses still occur today in everyday life. i recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a lighthearted laugh and a good read. you won't be sorry you took a trip into the garden. (gosh that was a bad pun!)

This is a great yoga guidebook. I take it with me on business trips, and use it to come up with my own yoga routines in the hotel. It's been a great help to me, and has really got me into the habit of practicing yoga every day. Highly recommended.

This little book delivers all that it promises and much more. The droll commentary and Vera's charming personality make learning (or remembering) yoga postures (asanas) and their sometimes difficult names really fun. Vera is empathic, humble and humorous. Intended as a supplement to yoga classes, Pocket Yoga gently coaxes, encourages and amuses practicioners of all levels. Small enough to tuck in your gym bag, large enough to make a great gift to fellow yoginis, this unique book is a gem.

This book has made Yoga so much easier for me in my busy life. I can take it anywhere (and we all know how our exercise suffers when we travel). The visuals and explanations about the poses make it easy to learn and remember. As if that is not enough, the book is educational as it teaches all the terms and pronunciations to make you sound like an expert. And last but not least, she'll have you laughing along the way!! It's simply genius.

I love this little book! Vera Sana is smart, funny, and very knowledgeable about the asanas. Let her be your guide through the various poses, explaining everything as she goes. Before long you will learn to pronounce the Sanskrit names and understand the connections between the asanas. Her suggestions for getting into and out of each pose are based on her years of yoga practice, which she does imperfectly every day. Her thoughts about each pose will bring a new dimension to your own yoga practice.
This book is the perfect size to take with you everywhere you go. Use it for inspiration, motivation, or reference. Vera will soon become a trusted friend. She does her best, and as she says, that is all anyone can ask.

The Book is a masterpiece of confusion, philosophy, humor and a religion that only starts out seeming ridiculous, as you read and reread the book you start to find the wisdom that Malaclypse the Younger was trying to convey and yet wrap his own head around at the time. I have owned three copies of this book and evey time i rebuy it and reread it i get somthing new from it. So grab your copy and all hail Eris.

Finally! Principia Discordia in hardback! It's about time too. It seems I've been waiting thirty odd years for this version. I've worn out and given away so many paperback copies I have now gifted myself a permanent version. Just check out all those neat little additions too, like the 'outroductions' and the bit about the...

No, I'm not going to spoil it for you. Just buy it!

It's awesome to finally see what may be one of the most stealthily influential books of the later 20th century in hardback. A definite must have, especially if you're like me and have already destroyed two paperback copies from over reading...

I recently noticed that I couldn't find my purple version of this book. I have absolutely no idea what happened to it. But if that hadn't happened, I never would have known that there was a hard cover version out. Something mysterious is going on. You should buy this book.

El libro nos muestra UNA VALIENTE SITUACION, así como la dureza con que sufren las personas del campo¡ Tal como es!

QUE LLORAS DE TRISTEZA, TE RIES, TE INDIGNAS...LO QUE SEA MENOS DEJAR DE LEERLA !

NO te la pierdas... esta fuera de serie !
AQUI SE HAN VENDIDO 25,000 EJEMPLARES EN DOS MESES !

REVELADOR DE LA TRAGEDIA DE FONDO...
ES NOVELA, CRONICA, CUENTO DE HORROR, COSQUILLEO Y LAGRIMAS...
UN LIBRO fuera de serie !

de carcajadas abiertas y una SÀTIRA AGUDA DEL SISTEMA POLITICO EN UN PAIS TERCERMUNDISTA...

Los personajes parecen caminar, reir y correr entre las pàginas y no puede uno menos que pensar que, MIENTRAS LOS PAÌSES DESARROLLADOS BUSCAN SU QUESO...NOSOTROS NO ENCONTRAMOS NI LOS FRIJOLES !

Esta bellamente escrita, con diàlogos vivos y personajes MUY FUERTES !

This wonderful book is a collection of three short stories, in which the author takes the befuddled Bertie Wooster, and drops him and the inimitable Jeeves into the world of H.P. Lovecraft! Hilarity ensues as Bertie drifts cluelessly along from adventure to hair-raising adventure with a cheery "What ho!"

This is a very funny book, one that should not be missed by any fan of Jeeves and Wooster. I think that the author does an excellent job of reproducing a believable Jeeves and Wooster, making the story feel like it was written by the great P.G. Wodehouse himself. My favorite line has to be Bertie's statement that, "Life is a hideous thingummy." I loved this book, and give it my highest recommendations!

Picture if you will Bertie Wooster from the Bertie and Jeeves stories of Wodehouse, thrust into a series of horrible Lovecraft situations. He responds with a series of hilarious non sequiturs and light-headed nitwit-isms, even when conversing with the locquacious and flowery characters of Lovecraft's most overwrought dialogue.

The humor of these three tales is all in the contrast between the styles of the two masters, who must have been contemporaries of a sort, but who hailed from such different worlds. Peter Cannon takes this running joke about as far as it can go, borrowing liberally from the plots of several of HPL's most famous chillers, while Bertie supplies all the jokes from soup to nuts.

If I could, I would have given this fine effort ten stars. Bertie Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse's wonderful upper class twit, somehow becomes involved in the surrealistic universe of H.P. Lovecraft and the wise Jeeves pulls him out. Cannon could have played this strictly for cheap laughs, but no, he clearly and genuinely loves these characters and does all he can to make this an honest and truthful pastiche. I truely love this book (or, at 89 pages, booklet) and only wish I could buy it in hard cover because my copy is falling apart from constant re-reading.

Truly a hilarious mixing of early 1900's British comedic aristocracy and Lovecraft. Anyone who gets a kick out of the kind of upper-class twits that populate Monty Python's comedy will love to see how a famous example interacts with Lovecraft's mind blasting horrors. When it's take on Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is titled "The Rummy Affair of Young Charlie" and poor Captain Norris is constantly referred to as "Tubby", you know you're in for some true ripping yarns! Highly recommended humor for the fan of Lovecraft and British humor.

Isn't it about time to open your life up to a psych cast of characters that somehow manage to elude demons, vampires, rampaging robots, real life, in fact, everything except themslves (and they try hard at that.

Buy this book. And say "Hi" to Zoe for me

Sluggy Freelance, need I say more? For those of you that haven't been made aware of the funniest, smartest and greatest comic on the internet, I'd suggest that you head over to sluggy.com to find out just how nifty it is. You might find yourself spending your entire day off just reading the archives, and craving more. This is the second book in the Sluggy family, one that you must own if you have even the slightest semblance of anything remotely close to a sense of humor. This book chronicles the 5th through the 8th chapters in the lives of the Sluggy crew. Starting with Sam's marrage, going into the introduction of The Demension of Pain, then ahh, wonderful summer, and a vacation to Nags Head, North Carolina, and into the vampires story where we learn *something* about Val's true nature, and a few more scary things. Bun-bun can't be stopped, neither can Lord Horribus, but you'll have to Worship the Comic to know what I'm talking about.
Including the "Nifty Flowchart" (which is correct for about ten minuites) and Bun-bun's black market viagra scheme this book is a must own. Smart and funny, with jokes that will kill you unless you come up for air, which is hard to do with writing this smart and compelling.

Funny name, funnier book. This is the second book in what is now (at least, at the time this review is being written) a 6 book series.

Best read in a series, as some jokes will rely heavily on character background, or past events... although each book can be picked up and enjoyed without having read the entire series, it's still funnier if you know the whole story.

Definitly worth a read... I've read my own set several times over already! It will cause you to start saying things like "Ahhh! I'm burning with goodness!" which, inevitably, causes people to give you funny looks as you laugh at your own joke.

Once you read it, you're hooked. Don't forget to check out the website, for new daily comics!

The anarchic humor continues as Riff,Torg, Zoe et al stumble (or get zapped) into wildly funny adventures. The book contains these storylines: Torg's encounter with the inept demons of the Dimension of Pain (one of whom collects Beanie Babies - truly evil!), the vacation at the Outer Banks (with a sidetrip where Bun-Bun, the amoral lop-ear, corrupts the Amish), Aylee the alien secretary's transmutation, and Torg's switch to an alternate dimension (where his counterpart has purple hair and speaks Portuguese, Bun-Bun is sweet, and beer doesn't exist). The masterpiece though, is an epic vampire tale, with stunning artwork and unexpected pathos and drama amongst the humor. Sluggy Freelance remains a hard series to describe; the best thing to do is just start reading. Trust me, you will find it strangely addictive!

Woe to this world if Henry Beard ever had to get a desk job. He is a brilliant humorist, who, in recent years, has allowed those of us who slogged through Cicero's speeches, Virgil's Aeneid and Caesar's Gallic Wars to enjoy a hearty laugh. X-Treme Latin is the third in the trilogy of Latin for All Occasions and Latin for Even More Occasions. Now, we are finally able to learn some really useful phrases and lines that would have been unthinkable (not to mention unvocabulariable) 21 centuries ago. Where else would you find snow-boarding lingo, country music song titles, and sushi bar discussions - all in Latin. If this is not proof that the language should have been allowed its respectful last gasps, I don't know what is. Of course, those of us who are corporate desk jockeys will also enjoy Caesar's PowerPoint Presentation. Until you see this book, you don't know how you could have lived without it (probably, pretty nicely, but that is really beside the point). Nevertheless, no longer will doctors, lawyers, and the Vatican have the upper hand when it comes to clever retorts in Latin after you read this book.

i found this book very funny my friend memorized a few phrases to use on the teachers he doesnt like and best of all even if they look it up they wont know what he meant... (its complicated... kind of)

This book would be funny for those just learning Latin because the English translations are funny. For those who know a fair amount of Latin the laughs are doubled as you read the English then work through the vocabulary chosen to express the sentiment in Latin! Contains countless phrases to be turned into t-shirts for your Latin geek friends and relatives

This book is great fun: a wildly anachronistic introduction to Latin for C.21. It's very small and would make a handy minor present. It also has unusual illustrations that seem appropriate.

This is a really funny book from Bob Powers, who's one of my favorite writers. Dark, hilarious, and inventive all around.

Bob Powers proves his skills of observation and imagination are totally unlimited with this choose your own adventure book for adults. The possible outcomes are as diverse as they are hilarious. It's a great read and would make the perfect gift for anyone you know who is nearing or in their 30s, and still trying to figure things out.

Great book. Very original and funny. Bob Powers unleashes his beautifully twisted arsenal of ideas in a Choose-Your-Own Adventure for adults.
I love this guy's stand-up, sketch comedy and books. He's a hilarious, genuine artist - one of NY's authentic voices who seems to never lack the kind of deliciously dark concepts that you wish didn't crack you up so hard.

Bob Powers has written a hilarious and very adult version of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure type of book, skewering everything from dotcom mania to a Landmark Forum-type "personal development workshop." The latter advertises that "There is a GEYSER OF PERSONAL POTENTIAL waiting to burst out of you. Find out how to COAT THE WORLD with AN EXPLOSION OF YOU." As you try to figure out the best way for your hero, or, perhaps, anti-hero, to save his girlfriend (or, you know, not), who is being held by kidnappers for $50,000, Powers you to a sex club, an abortionist, 9/11 and beyond. He somehow manages to cram in all kinds of current events with a general sense of generational angst and relationship drama, all while you flip around madly trying to find the best ending. Except all the endings here are kindof messed up, and all the funnier for it.

I read all the time on the subway, and only rarely do I miss my stop because I'm so engrossed in a book. That happened with this one, so be forewarned.

The humor of Jeff Foxworthy reminds me of the old television show "Sanford and Son." The main characters were all black, and most of them were poor. Therefore, they could poke fun at it and even use the stereotypes used to depict poor blacks. It was the only network television show where the word ni**er could be used. Foxworthy claims to be a redneck, so he also can poke fun using the stereotypes of what many people call "trailer trash."
The people are depicted as dumb, toothless, crude and ill mannered. In only a few pages, he manages to hit just about every stereotype. My favorite is on page 32, where he says, "You might be a redneck if your Thanksgiving dinner was ever ruined because you ran out of ketchup." I found some of them mildly humorous, but most of them were a bit silly. I thought the dumbest one was "You might be a redneck if you think Volvo is part of a woman's anatomy." Foxworthy's humor does little for me, but that might just be personal taste. Therefore, if you like this kind of humor, you will probably bust a gut when reading this book. However, if your tastes are more towards intelligent humor, it will probably just bore you.

Fans of the 'redneck humor' of Jeff Foxworthy as seen on TV comedy shows will be glad to know his one-liner observations about what makes a 'redneck' translate well to text and one-panel comics, too. David Boyd's illustrations grace a funny book perfect for the non-reader fully aware of all-too-real 'redneck habits'.

Yep... if the directions to your house include "turn off the paved road" this is the book for you. As a person who has lived off the paved part of the road (and perhaps I've been out of NYC too long) but I recognize the people in this book. There's humor here because of the incredible sense of recognition. I've known people like this and I adore Jeff Foxworthy for pointing out the humor in these comical stereotypes!

this book by the southern flavored performer is a work out for the stomach muscles . foxworthy tells the story of his childhood , teen years and about his present day life in a manner that makes you jealous you didn't grow up with the guy. his stories about deer hunting and playing pranks on his mom will make you break out laughing in the middle of your train/bus ride. if you are a fan of foxworthy (as i am) you will recognise the classic bits and enjoy lots of new and hillariously funny ones. if you want to avoid embarrasing yourselves in public , read this book alone , because you will laugh out loud. click on the add to cart icon you will not be dissapointed

I read a review of this book while traveling through Nashville recently. At first it seemed to slam self help books in general, and as the author of a somewhat quirky book on how to overcome obstacles to daily joy ("Live in the Moment"), I bristled for an argument. In the end, I realize that "Aim Low", is indeed a self help book, only it takes a reverse point of view. "Our happiness doesn't have to depend on results..." was the summation of the review and I couldn't agree more. As long as we're all still striving for happiness!

Cover to cover, this book will seriously make you think about your life...as you're falling off your chair, laughing! Dave Dunseath writes about what we all, at some point, have thought about and wish we could say out loud. Look deeper folks, the wisdom woven between the hilarious pages of this book will surprise you! Loved it and I recommend it...

This book made me laugh out loud..alot! The author hits the nail on the head so many times I lost count. If you want to lighten up and stop pushing against the tide, this book is for you! Great gift idea too.