Cricket Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 A tenant in our RV park is in the hospital and might be for a while. He's been struggling with congestive heart failure for some time now. From the times I've visited with him I've learned he loves Fawlty Towers and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There has to be a book out there along those lines. Do the Jeeves book have some of that same kind of humor? I've heard they are good books but I haven't read any. Any other suggestions? He likes to discuss politics too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 A tenant in our RV park is in the hospital and might be for a while. He's been struggling with congestive heart failure for some time now. From the times I've visited with him I've learned he loves Fawlty Towers and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There has to be a book out there along those lines. Do the Jeeves book have some of that same kind of humor? Wodehouse is much more refined than FT and MP, but it can't hurt to try. Also consider Cold Comfort Farm. The old Woody Allen books (I thought I'd die over The Wh*res of Mensa) The Boat Who Wouldn't Float Three Men on a Boat (and Three Men on the Bummel) Birds, Beasts and Relatives and My Family and Other Animals Heart of a Dog (this is translated from the Russian, and again, I split my sides...it was banned during Stalin era Russia...about a dog-criminal transplant, and what happens to the creature left behind. Not gruesome, just funny and political). Catch-22 Don Quixote Nobody Loves A Drunken Indian The Futurological Congress by Lem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkett Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 What about "The Eyre Affair"? The review from the Wall Street Journal that's printed on the cover states: "Filled with Clever wordplay, Literary allusion and Bibliowit, The Eyre AFfair combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But its quirky charm is all its own." Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Bill Bryson is a great author. He writes humorous, often insightful vignettes. He is an American who lived in Great Britain for twenty years (and married a British woman), but is now in the States. Anglophiles eat him up. This one is my favorite, though I have enjoyed everything I have read of him: http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Small-Island-Bill-Bryson/dp/0380727501/ref=pd_bbs_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231642531&sr=8-12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Bill Bryson is a great author. He writes humorous, often insightful vignettes. He is an American who lived in Great Britain for twenty years (and married a British woman), but is now in the States. Anglophiles eat him up. This one is my favorite, though I have enjoyed everything I have read of him: http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Small-Island-Bill-Bryson/dp/0380727501/ref=pd_bbs_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231642531&sr=8-12 Notes on a Small Island is very funny. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 A tenant in our RV park is in the hospital and might be for a while. He's been struggling with congestive heart failure for some time now. From the times I've visited with him I've learned he loves Fawlty Towers and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There has to be a book out there along those lines. Do the Jeeves book have some of that same kind of humor? I've heard they are good books but I haven't read any. Any other suggestions? He likes to discuss politics too. The Jeeves books are very funny, he might also enjoy P G Wodehouse's Mr Mulliner series. They are generally tall tales told by a man in an English pub about one of his many nephews. Would he enjoy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? Another very funny Bill Bryson book is 'A Walk in the Woods', though not set in Britain it is one of Bryson's funniest I think. 'Three Men in a Boat' by Jerome K Jerome is hilarious too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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