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What's So Funny???? Inkslinger THE Spring 2013 1511 South 1500 East Salt Lake City, UT 84105 Book Review 801-484-9100 I always read Carl Hiaasen with a grin. A Florida reporter and later columnist for the Miami Herald, Hiaasen knows the dark, tawdry underbelly of the Sunshine State like only a native who What’s So really loves the place can. Both his adult and award-winning juve- nile fiction revolve around the despoiling of paradise by develop- ers and their toadies in the State House. His characters, like the one-eyed former governor who subsists on roadkill while lurking Funny???? in the Everglades, are memorable. Any of his books are comic thrill rides, but the one that opens with a wife treading water as Compiled by Anne Holman she watches the cruise ship she was recently aboard sail off into the night is a good place to start: Skinny Dip. Pat Bagley, ace editorial cartoonist at The Salt Lake Tribune There are a lot of re- ally funny books out there; I’d Two words: Straight toss out a few. For contemporary, Man. Two more: Richard how about Richard Russo’s Straight Russo. I read it once a year, just to Man, Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask or Maria laugh at all the absurdities and foibles Semple’s, Where’d You Go, Bernadette. of my chosen academic profession. And For slightly older books, you can’t go wrong to remind myself not to take any of it too with John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy seriously. of Dunces or Tom Sharpe’s hilarious Wilt. P.S. I also laughed out loud at The Financial Lives of And for really old–Cervantes’ Don the Poets, but I can’t remember the author’s name. Quixote and Laurence Sterne’s First name that starts with J, last name that Tristram Shandy. starts with W? Editor’s note: It’s Jess Walter! Jess Walter, We Live in Kimberly Johnson, Water: Stories A Metaphorical God: Poems Richard Russo’s Straight Man, set on the campus of a small college in a delightfully dysfunctional English I have two favorites, department, is a seriously funny tickle-the-funnybone-wise: novel. And it gets even more hilari- Straight Man by Richard Russo... ous with age—its own (15 or so) and especially funny if you have any ties mine (you don’t really need it for to or experience with this survey, do you?) academia. Anne Brillinger, bookseller Skippy Dies by Paul Murray...an uproar- iously funny book about the school- boys in England. Bruce Machart, The Wake of Forgiveness —2— www.kingsenglish.com Up Front I recommend Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple—simply hilarious! It’s been a long winter and boy, are we Jennet Conant, A Covert Affair: Julia Child ready for daffodils and warmer days. and Paul Child in the OSS To that end we thought you (and we) could use a laugh or two. We posed this question to writers and booksellers: A request we often hear at the bookstore is “Why is fiction always so serious? I want to read something funny! So with that in Where’d You Go, mind, what piece of fiction has tickled your funny bone? We’ll tell Bernadette! LOVED you ours if you tell us yours!” this book! We’ve posted their answers here. Most, but not every book, is still Anne Zimmerman, in print and we’ll have piles of them at the bookstore. And we’ll M.F.K. Fisher: ask you too! What piece of fiction makes you laugh? Musings on Wine and The Editors Other Libations Sue’s List The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared Minding Mama Where’d You Go, Bernadette is very, very funny. The Weird Sisters Mudslides, penguins, and a virtual assistant in India combined with a girl named Bee and a brilliant but The Uncommon Reader agoraphobic architect living in an Addams Family The Case of the Missing Books mansion make for LOL one-liners. Jenny Lyons, bookseller Three Bags Full Tortilla Flat Ah, that’s an easy one —but my guess is you’ll get The Pickwick Papers this response from many a Seattleite. Portland has Portlandia; Seattle has Maria Semple’s Lamb Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Hilarious, snarky, Mrs. Queen Takes the Train fast-paced and big-hearted, the novel skewers the Emerald City, private schools, big software A Spot of Bother companies and blackberry bushes as it makes its way through a web of emails, journal entries and The Absolutely True Story letters in an attempt to find the elusive Berna- of a Part-Time Indian dette, once architect, now a mother who most definitely has not stayed at home. Skinny Dip Erica Baumeister, The Lost Art of Mixing The Finkler Question Last Night at the Lobster Where’d You Go, Bernadette, truly funny. Also, these The Lonely Polygamist titles may have already been mentioned: This Is Where I Leave You, A Confederacy of Dunces, most of Dog on It Dorothy Parker’s short stories; and right now I’m read- Sean Griswold’s Head ing a clever AND comical book, Beautiful Ruins. Dawn Houghton, bookseller, founder–Bookwagon.org Austenland Sue Fleming, bookseller 1511 South, 1500 East, Salt Lake City, Utah | 801-484-9100 —3— But it’s so difficult. Really hard to say. I like Carl Hiaasen quite a bit, particularly Lucky You and Strip Tease. Also Vonnegut, Twain, and Evanovich. But the last novel I read that made me laugh out loud was Christopher Moore’s Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. Then of course there’s the Old Testament, but you have to be in the right frame of mind for it…Oh, and Joseph Wambaugh’s The Choirboys. Robert Kirby, Salt Lake Tribune columnist and all around funny guy I am guessing you see Tropper on a lot of lists, so I am going with Carl Hiaasen and Skinny Dip! And on the YA side, Swim the Fly, by Don Calame, laugh-out-loud funny for anyone who deals with early teen boys, with apologies to that demographic! Margaret Brennan Neville, bookseller - The funniest thing I heard was when Dave Bar ry was promoting Insane City, he quoted Carl Hiaasen as saying that if you lived in Miami you didn’t need an imagination, all you had to do was read the Miami Herald. Since in this house- hold, we get most of our plots from newspaper Lamb, Christopher Moore articles from all over the world, we agreed. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil William Gordon, Fractured Lives Gaiman Tourist Season, Carl Hiaasen Barbara Hoagland, bookseller One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or Catch 22 or any Carl Hiaasen book. Dr. Lou Borgenicht, The Baby Owner’s Manual I’m in. These two are full of horselaughs: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos and Going Bovine by Libba Bray. Phillip Hoose, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 —4— www.kingsenglish.com Of course Carl Hiaasen writes funny novels, but my favorite is the obscure Arnold Grossman book Going Together. It’s Betsy’s List about two neurotic people who meet when each is about to commit suicide. They consider all sorts of ways to kill Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons (the movie’s themselves—jumping off the Santa Monica Pier, but the hilarious, but not to the level of the book) water is so filthy; eating giant hamburgers to drive up their cholesterol, and so on. It’s also a charming love story. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Sandra Dallas, True Sisters Gospel, Wilton Barnhardt A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov Skin Tight, Carl Hiaasen This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon Lamb, Christopher Moore Handling Sin and Dingley Falls, Michael Malone Big Trouble, Dave Barry Heartburn, Nora Ephron The Lambs of God, Mary Daily The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett The Admiral on the Wheel by James Thurber— Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome short story not a book. A little research tells me it The Bad Samaritan, Robert Barnard first appeared in a 1936 issue Not Wanted on the Voyage, Timothy Findley of The New Yorker. Anything by John Mortimer, Evelyn Waugh or P. G. Dave Hall, Moving Water Wodehouse And coming this fall…The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion (This-Is-Where-I-Leave-You funny, A-Spot- I recently giggled my way of-Bother funny, makes you laugh at 4 a.m. funny). through Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tom- Betsy Burton, bookseller, The King’s English Bookshop: Adventures my Greenwald. With deliber- of an Independent Bookseller ately short chapters (so you can tell your parents you finished your required chapter for the Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. day), fun cartoons, and a main Jess has an intelligent wit that is character who is an unapolo- both sharp and vulnerable. You getic reluctant reader, Charlie Joe Jackson is great fun read his work and laugh aloud for readers and non-readers alike! even as your heart is breaking. Kim Barnes, In the Kingdom of Men Jennifer Nielsen, The Runaway King 1511 South, 1500 East, Salt Lake City, Utah | 801-484-9100 —5— Literary Laughs I’d say Catch 22 is a funny book, at least in places. Kent Haruf, Benediction I can think of two funny books: Insane City by Dave Barry (makes fun of Mi- The Spellman Files and sequels ami and all its craziness).
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