Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-Historical Coprology9 reviews
Ralph A. Lewin

Random House, 1999

The adult version of "Everyone Poops"

+ Most informative book I've seen on the subject
+ Unusual historical survey & essay re excrement

"For some reason, among the most fragrant coffees of Java are reputed to be those made by roasting beans that have passed through the intestinal tracts of civets." How could anyone possibly object to a book that disseminates facts such as the above as freely as certain birds disseminate seeds in ...
  
  











  



  
Dave Barry in Cyberspace55 reviews
Dave Barry

Ballantine Books, 1997

My two cents

+ :-D == (laugh-out-loud funny)
+ Better than you'd expect
+ Entertaining even when a decade old!
+ Dave Barry Never Disappoints...
  
  











  



  
The Far Side ® Gallery26 reviews
Gary Larson

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1984

Original 1984 Gallery of Masterpieces Will Never Go Out of Fashion

+ Graphic SF Reader
+ realer than real
+ It's the Far Side, but...
+ My First Far Side Collection
  
  











  



  
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset131 reviews
Graham Chapman, John Cleese

A&E Home Video, 2005

Cleese and them

+ Don't Blame A&E
+ The more than complete Flying Circus
+ For Monty Python Lovers
+ Monty Python - wow
  
  











  



  
Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?48 reviews
Dave Barry

Three Rivers Press, 2006

Barry is back!

+ Among Barry's best
+ Good Laughs - At Yourself
+ Another home run from a very funny man.
  
  











  



  
Dilbert - A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 0012 reviews
Scott Adams

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000

Cheaper than Valium, though not as easy to swallow.

+ A BUNCH OF SUNDAYS
+ About par for Dilbert.
+ Humorous Compilation of Sunday Strips
+ Dilbert - A Treasury of Sunday Strips: Version 00 by S.Adams
  
  











  



  
Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics1 review
William Donaldson, Willie Donaldson

Cassell, 2002

Nobody does "eccentrics" like the Brits!!

Everything you never knew that you wanted to know about the oddballs, rogues, cads, scoundrels, footpads, and other non-conformists who made the "Sceptered Isle" what it is (and was). I got this book since I really enjoyed "The Henry Root Letters" and "Root Into Europe". Our old friend the 5th Duke ...
  
  











  



  
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum96 reviews
Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers

MGM (Video & DVD), 2000

Richard Lester Classic

+ a classic stage play
+ Non-stop Laughs, Sight Gags, Slapstick and just plain fun!
+ My Favorite Movie
  
  











  



  
Great Operatic Disasters5 reviews
Hugh Vickers

St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1979

The sublime descends into the ridiculous

+ The Curse of Tosca
+ Opera Meets Mel Brooks

I had already read this opera classic, first published in 1979, but I bought a copy for a hostess gift and read it again. Then my husband read it. I could hear him sitting in the john and laughing hysterically far into the night (actually, it didn't take him that long to read it, because it's ...
  
  











  



  
Enslaved by Ducks64 reviews
Bob Tarte

Algonquin Books, 2004

Be ye hereby warned!

+ enchanting!
+ A Fun Read for Pet Lovers of All Kinds.

In this humorous book, Bob Tarte plumbs the depths of the abyss into which my wife periodically threatens to tip us. The delightfully self defeating efforts to control animal acquisition in the face of pets, each possessing more personality than a classroom full of teenagers, resonated with the ...
  
  











  



  
Kill As Few Patients As Possible16 reviews
Oscar London

Ten Speed Press, 1987

Enjoyed, but not as helpful as I had hoped

+ Funny book
+ "s serious topics
+ World's Best Doctor
  
  











  



  
Little Treasury of Limericks Fair and Foul2 reviews

Macmillan, 1973

The limerick packs laughs anatomical

+ The limerick packs laughs anatomical

...Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I've seen so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so seldom are comical (to slightly paraphrase John Letts, the compiler of this Treasury). The literate, English-speaking world seems to be divided into two groups: those who love ...
  
  











  



  
Journey to Cubeville (A Dilbert Book, No. 12)23 reviews
Scott Adams

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998

Cliché in a Box (or Cube)

+ The Corporate World is Just One Big Cube
+ A must-have
+ The best Dilbert collection ever!!!
+ Absolutely hilarious!
  
  











  



  
The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.21 reviews
Gene Weingarten

Simon & Schuster, 2001

The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.

+ Truly a great read
+ Great entertainment.
+ hit and miss
+ Will cure you
  
  











  



  
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World220 reviews
A. J. Jacobs

Simon & Schuster, 2005

Thoroughly enjoyable

+ I Will Read and Re-Read This One!
+ Generation X goes to the library
+ It's very cute - read it!
+ My FAVORITE book ever!!
  
  











  



  
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch523 reviews
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

HarperTorch, 2006

I Drove My Roommate Crazy

+ Good Omens is Just Plain Good Fun
+ Like reading a Monty Python movie... fantastic literary satire
+ Good Omens
+ B+
  
  











  



  
Dave Barry in Cyberspace55 reviews
Dave Barry

Ballantine Books, 1997

My two cents

+ :-D == (laugh-out-loud funny)
+ Better than you'd expect
+ Entertaining even when a decade old!
+ Dave Barry Never Disappoints...
  
  











  



  
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch523 reviews
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

HarperTorch, 2006

I Drove My Roommate Crazy

+ Good Omens is Just Plain Good Fun
+ Like reading a Monty Python movie... fantastic literary satire
+ Good Omens
+ B+
  
  











  



  
Journey to Cubeville (A Dilbert Book, No. 12)23 reviews
Scott Adams

Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998

Cliché in a Box (or Cube)

+ The Corporate World is Just One Big Cube
+ A must-have
+ The best Dilbert collection ever!!!
+ Absolutely hilarious!
  
  











  



  
Kill As Few Patients As Possible16 reviews
Oscar London

Ten Speed Press, 1987

Enjoyed, but not as helpful as I had hoped

+ Funny book
+ "s serious topics
+ World's Best Doctor