Laugh wrap-up: Twitterchat reading recommendations
A fantastic twitter book group was held last night to chat about February’s topic of laugh. Here is a collection of the reading suggestions from all our participants as well as some discussion points.
Discussion points:
Not being sure that you should be laughing at a book as it wasn’t written as a comedy
Difficulty predicting/pinpointing what makes you laugh
Cringe/painful humour
Aust Discworld convention activities. We have a mini-con in Adelaide in July & regular con 2013
Laughing out loud on public transport/planes and feeling rather embarrassed
Following Twitter commentary enhances enjoyment of TV shows
recipe called Strawberry Wobbler
Title/Authors:
King of the Cross by Mark Dapin
Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men on a Boat
Circus the Australian story by Mark St Leon
Milligan’s meaning of life: an autobiography of sorts, by Spike Milligan & edited by Norma Farnes
Pride and Prejudice
Girl in the steel capped boots
The Half-Child by Angela Savage
Leave it to Psmith-PG Wodehouse
Going Postal/Terry Pratchett
‘Do Not Pass Go’ – Tim Moore’s
Lily Brett’s You gotta have balls
Catch-22
McInnis Worse Things Happen at Sea
Christine Stinson in Getting Even With Fran
Kandy Shepherd: Love Is A Four-Legged Dog & Home Is Where The Bark Is
Eat Me & The Infernal Optimist by Linda Jaivin
Shane Maloney who wrote the Murray Whelan Thrillers
Isolde Martyn’s The Lady & the Unicorn
Sirens of Titan & Breakfast of Champions
James Joyce’s Ulysses
Tim Moore’s French Revolutions
Victoria Dahl’s Talk Me Down
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum
Judith Lucy biography ‘The Lucy family alphabet
Wilde’s Importance of being ernest
Garrison Keillor’s Lake Woebegone
Gervais Phinn’s Over the Hills & Dales
Cold Comfort Farm
Sellar & Yeatman’s “history” 1066
Jet Lag travel
I am America and so can you
Uncyclopaedia of Rock
A short history of tractors in Urkranian
Kirsty Brooks – her Vodka Dialogue
The Mud House – Richard Glover
Gibson’s Sex, Lies and Online Dating
Aaronovich wrote for Dr Who
Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook
Dickens- Bleak House
Our Mutual Friend
Kids:
Bruce Whatley’s Little white dogs can’t jump
Andy Griffiths
Too Many Pears
Diana Wynne Jones /Tough Guide to Fantasyland & Chrestomanci Books
The big dig by Meg McKinlay
Roald Dahl’s “Boy”
Dahl’s MAtilda and Twits
Nick Sharratt’s funny illustrations in pic bks: Mr Pod & Mr Picalilli, Pants, Tiger Tales, Toddle Waddle
Cracking up and Falling apart , Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
Sue Townsend – Diary of Adrian Mole
Keys to the Kingdom than the Abhorsen trilogy – Garth Nix
Mo Willems
Fancy Nancy books
David Melling
Tedd Arnold
Bruce Whateley
Sandra Boynton
Dave Hackett
Eoin Colfer
Jeff Kinney
Periodicals:
MAD Magazine
Don Martin & Mad Mag.
Archie Andrews
Sergio Aragones
Glenn Baxter
Web, Blogs, Bloggers, Tweet streams, Games:
@Queen_UK
World of Warcraft
@TNG_S8
@Mamamia
@charlotteshucks on Midsomer Murders
@offalchris
@wilw
@_snape_
http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/
@Charles_HRH
#ginoclock
@rickygervais
@simonpegg
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
podcast by ClaireTomalin on Dickens
Authors:
Rachel Gibson
George Bernard Shaw
Graham Chapman
Douglas Adams
Oscar Wilde
David Sedaris
Jamie Oliver
Laurie Notaro
Jennifer Crusie
Janet Evanovich
Matthew Reilly
Tom Holt
KinkY Friedman
Nick Earls
Peter Temple
Terry Pratchett
Rik mayall’s autobio
@LisaHeidke Stella Makes Good
Kurt Vonnegut
Nora Ephron
Melanie La’Brooy
Adrian Plass
Scriptwriters/TV/Movies/Plays:
Arrested Development
Modern Family
Peep Show
Friends
Zoolander
Ben Stiller
Bugs Bunny
early Woody Allen
Outland
Cold Comfort Farm
Nora Ephron
When Harry Met Sally
Adam Hills
Mythbusters
Top Gear
Richard Glover
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