MoneyPit Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 I'm getting ready for a long deserved vacation and was hoping that the FOH crew could help suggest a few good books to pick up for the trip. I read "Sh*t My Dad Says" during Christmas and laughed the entire time. Anyone got any suggestions for something humorous?
docbp87 Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 Mindless humor: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max Little smarter: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
brutusthebuckeye Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell....had me laughin!!!!
CaptainQuintero Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 Jesus Weed by Gerald Taylor is a great holiday book, not overly long and one you can't put down, funny too Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC by Bernard Cornwell is also a great holiday book, easy read but great story telling, long too so will tide you over for a week. It's not humour but worth a look.
Colt45 Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 Not really humor, but a couple I like which are Cuba related - Havana Nocturne and Looking For La Bomba. I'm a real fan of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries - I like all kinds of books. Enjoy your vacation!
docbp87 Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 If non-humor is fair game as well, a few I have read and enjoyed recently: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Foucoult's Pendulum by Umberto Eco A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (The source for the new HBO series, much acclaimed)
theholmesmob Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 I can throughly recommend 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin. Great read, real page turner. Have recommended to others and thay have all enjoyed it....
mazolaman Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 Mindless humor: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker MaxLittle smarter: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris They are currently playing live recordings of David Sedaris on BBC radio at the mo,hilarious. another light yet brilliant novel,and funny with it,would be Cannery Row by Steinbeck....great easy going holiday read.
Stalebread Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 For funny try Neil Gaiman's Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch ("this tale of the bungling of Armageddon features an angel, a demon, an 11-year-old Antichrist and a doomsaying witch; unmistakably British humor is in abundance. ") If you like fantasy. I just started Philip Roth's Zuckerman Bound trilogy. Good but not vacation reading I think. Too dense, you can't skim over anything. Also working on The Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. A very good story. Not in the humor category. Could be vacation reading, though. It kind of picks up where Shogun leaves off.
CigarmanTim Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 A good beach book or a book for light reading are the Jimmy Buffet books...Tully Mars is the main character.
MoneyPit Posted June 16, 2011 Author Posted June 16, 2011 Thanks for all the responses! I will have to look into a few of those as some of the suggestions weren't even on my radar.
laficion Posted June 16, 2011 Posted June 16, 2011 Anyone got any suggestions for something humorous? Have a sit at a local outside café with a great drink and cigar and just look around you for an hour, that should get you some laughs Have a great vacation.
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