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  • Connedincalifornia posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago

    Any body have a very funny book to recommend? I could do with a break.

    • Anything by Bill Bryson, my favorite is ” I am a stranger here myself” , “Down under” and of course ” A walk in the woods”

    • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
      Dr Who, Shada

    • Thank you so much guys. I’ve been listening to I Am A Stranger Here Myself. It’s good old-fashioned humor. I love it.

    • … depending on your sense of humor … John Hodgman’s More Information Than You Require or The Areas of My Expertise.
      , Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary, and then there’s always …. the incredible Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain (Mark Twain Tonight) available gratis on YouTube.

      “If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things that cannot be learned in any other way.”
      “Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.”
      “The human race has only one really effective weapon, and this is laughter.” – Mark Twain

      “The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – J. S. Mill

      “mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.”

      “eccentricity, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.” – Ambrose Bierce

      … and finally one of my favorites …. may also explain the differences in senses of humor. 🙂

      “It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.” – Diogenes