You did those viral stunts where you made funny book covers and rode the subway.
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What made you think: 'This war is going to make for a really funny book'?
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People say, 'For a funny book about Afghanistan and Pakistan, it's just not that funny.
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"It's a little funny book," a boy said, as he handed Ms. Smiley a book to sign.
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I don't know what Aunt Anna got in place of consummation, but Hens got this dark, lovely, funny book. ♦
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Otherwise, this honest, revealing and funny book is as deeply pleasurable as the soup dumplings Platt learned to love as a boy.
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I look forward to rereading this warm and funny book with my daughters, and hearing about how boring we are in comparison.
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He really understands what this book is and how, even though it is a funny character, it is a not a funny book.
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The result is a manic, consistently funny book of alternating perspectives as the Wangs make various cross-country stopovers in their '80s station wagon.
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Her unconventional, darkly funny book follows the lives of two Midwestern cage fighters — one just starting out and one in the twilight of his career.
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It's by far the most inventive and unexpected musical pick among them all, with a unique, avant-garde score and bright, funny book from Dave Malloy.
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This persuasive and blackly funny book of poems takes its tone and subject matter from old Hollywood movies, but the intensity of the attack is all Minnis's.
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In this darkly funny book, Dino gets one more chance to resolve his friendship with his estranged best friend July — when she awakens on the table in Dino's parents' funeral home.
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It's also not a particularly funny book — it tackles subjects like obsession, projection, disillusionment, and loneliness — but Soloway's work on Amazon's Transparent has proven she can find humor in heavy subjects.
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" Learning From Las Vegas is a nuanced (and very funny) book, but its message was quickly flattened into "Modernism is a failure, and ordinary people hate modernism and like red barns and gables.
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Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay (2014) The sharp, funny book of essays arrives at the heart of what it means to identify as a feminist – and how to deal when you're not a perfect one.
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I had talked about writing a funny book for years, but it's not necessarily the most natural thing in the world… You have to get in a funny space to be able to write funny.
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Essay Mark Doten's new novel, TRUMP SKY ALPHA (Graywolf, paper, $16), is a funny book and a sad one, a bright one and a dark one, a distant sci-fi dystopia and a ripped-from-the-headlines tragedy.
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An essential gift for cat lovers, this beautiful, funny book, with more than 80 previously unpublished photographs, reveals adorable cats and kittens as they pounce and jump through the air, legs outstretched—all in Casteel's signature up-close, mid-action style.
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It's an interesting and funny book about the intersection of science fiction and reality, and Favro blends memoir, tech reporting, and even a bit of science fiction to look at where robots have come from, and where they could be going in the coming decades.
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It's a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm's "The Journalist and the Murderer" (1990), another slim volume about the uneasy fandango that nonfiction writers and their subjects perform.
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The Unmade Bed: Men and Women in the 21st Century is an extremely well-researched, self-reflective, insightful, and even sometimes laugh-aloud funny book about the state of gender relations today; the collection could also serve as a sort of field guide for men looking to better understand that subject and think a little bit more about what "gender" really means right now, to themselves personally.
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In the deeply personal, emotional and often funny book, the sisters, who called the White House home from 2001 to 2009, wax nostalgic about the administrations of America's 41st president, ("Gampy" George H.W. Bush) and the 43rd (dad George W.), when D.C was a gentler place, while taking care not to fault only Trump for what Barbara calls today's "belittling and demeaning" political dialogue.
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13 Dec. 2012. Some describe this book as “rollicking funny book”.Higgins, Chester.
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Olbrich grew up on a farm in Dodge County, Minnesota, part of a large family.Olbrich, Dave. "About," Funny Book Fanatic (2008). He attended Claremont High School in Claremont, Minnesota, graduating in 1978.
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Lacey also co-authored Street Life with Nick Page which is a radical, funny book of some thirty Bible studies, covering such apparently un-Biblical topics as 'Lip gloss', 'Scaffolding' and 'Chewing Gum'.
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Akin grew up in southern California, in Riverside County. At age 13, he and his mother and sister moved to San Francisco. Akin's first professional job was producing artwork for Larry Fuller's New Funny Book in 1978.Who's Who of American Comics: 1928 - 1999 by Bails, Jerry G. and Ware, Hames.
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The Oakland Press published a collection of Funland puzzles (created by Art Nugent, Jr.) in The Oakland Press Funny Book (October 8, 1978). Funland: Super-Packed with Puzzles, Jokes, Amazing Facts and Lots more Exciting Fun!, by Art Nugent and Leo White, is a 132-page paperback collection published by Playmore in 1982.
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It was serialized in England in Grand Magazine from August 1914 to March 1915, and in the United States in Collier's beginning with the 20 June 1914 issue.David C. Johnson, H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (Yale UP, 1986), p. 529 n.35. Biographer David C. Smith considers Bealby "a very funny book," but a "neglected" one.
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The Times review said, "What could so easily have been a saucy postcard of a book becomes a rewarding meditation on human desire - with lots of smut." (The postcard reference is to the work of Donald McGill.) The Guardian called it "a relentlessly funny book", with Coren and Skelton "a couple of Hugh Grant-like characters". The Sunday Telegraph said it "is indeed a jolly read".
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Accessed March 3, 2011. Some of Blair's first professional work was animation for the children's television series You Can't Do That on Television and the science show Let Me Prove It. In 1985, when the insulation company Blair worked for lost its contract with the government, he persuaded the owner to revamp the corporation as Aircel Comics under Blair's editorial direction.Olbrich, Dave. "'ASK THE DWO' Answers" (Dale Keown interview), Funny Book Fanatic (Dec.
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The Risk Pool is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Russo's second novel. First published in 1988, The Risk Pool is a Bildungsroman or "coming of age" novel set in fictional Mohawk, New York, a dying blue-collar town. The Risk Pool was well received by critics, such as The New York Times, which called it a "superbly original, maliciously funny book" and praised Russo's "brilliant, deadpan writing."Sullivan, 1988 In 2004, Warner Bros.
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Critical reception for The Rosie Effect has been mostly positive and the book was a bestseller in multiple countries. NPR praised the book for not overly romanticizing Don, for achieving a tricky balance, and for its "classic Hitchcockian suspense". Bill Gates included The Rosie Effect as the only novel in his Top Five Books for 2014. The Sydney Morning Herald, which had praised The Rosie Project, published two reviews, one of which criticized the novel as "formulaic" while the second called it "a very funny book, possibly the funniest this year".
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George Axelrod worked on the script for a year with McCarey. He later recalled they came up with an approach to do the film "but it was too far out for Buddy Adler", the head of production at Fox: > Max Shulman's book was a very funny book, and very literary, in that he used > literary devices - which don't often translate to the screen very well. The > story itself was rather boring, but the author's comments were funny. So I > invented a narrator, named Max, who wove the film together.
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Bechard's first novel, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, was published by Citadel Underground in 1991 and was called "a very, very funny book" by the Los Angeles Times. It tells the tale of God sending his quirky teenaged daughter to save the world. The book has been optioned by Hollywood numerous times, and has had many leading actress attached to play the role including Winona Ryder, who in the Hot issue of Rolling Stone magazine proclaimed her next role was playing the female Jesus, to most recently Rooney Mara, who can be seen on the cover of the paperback release of the novel.
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Stein is best known for writing, producing, and starring in the 2014 viral comedy video Momhead. It received over 2.7 million views on YouTube and was featured on CNN, The Today Show, The Huffington Post, and The Doctors. The video is based on her book How Not to Calm a Child on a Plane, which The New York Times described as "the rare funny book on becoming and being a mother that doesn't sound as if you've read it before (probably because it is chock-full of things most of us would never, ever say)." The book also received positive reviews from Salon, Jezebel, and Los Angeles Magazine.
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Author Jonathan Lethem called Crosley "another mordant and mercurial wit from the realm of Sedaris and Vowell." David Sedaris called her writing "sure- footed, observant and relentlessly funny." Kirkus Reviews called it "Witty and entertaining"; the Seattle Times said "this book about nothing is riveting to the very end"; The New York Observer described it as "a funny book, and also a wistful book and a touching book". Elsewhere, the San Francisco Chronicle reviewer noted that while the book featured "sharp, self-effacing humor", the book's style reveals the author as "too clever for her own good" and "not... very, well, nice", though that by the book's end, "we forgive her deceptions".
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She later emerged as cartoonist for The Guardian, particularly known for her strip cartoon "Doris", which ran for more than a decade. She contributed a series of cartoons featuring Doris, a cleaning lady who "witnesses the divides of a society shaken by Brexit", to UCL's European Institute. While continuing to work as a cartoonist, Asquith is in addition the author of more than 60 books for young people, particularly teenagers, her most popular series including Teenage Worrier, Fibby Libby, Girl Writer, Trixie and Letters from an Alien Schoolboy (the latter being shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Book Prize), as well as numerous picture books, and is known as an illustrator who “recognises and celebrates diversity in all its forms”.
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" Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers praised the film, giving it three out of four stars and writing in his print review that the film "works enough miracles of 3-D animation to charm your socks off." Roger Moore of The Orlando Sentinel, who gave the film 2 stars out of 4, wrote a mixed review describing the film as a "more coming-of-age dramedy or 'everything about your world view is wrong' message movie than it is a comedy, and that seems like a waste of a funny book, some very funny actors and some darned witty animation." Kyle Smith of the New York Post gave the film 2/4 stars labeling the film as, "Avatar for simpletons.
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Baddiel has written four novels: Time for Bed (1996), Whatever Love Means (2002), The Secret Purposes (2006) and The Death of Eli Gold (2011). In June 2015, Baddiel published his first children's novel, The Parent Agency, which won the LOLLIE award (formally the Roald Dahl Funny Book Awards) for ‘best laugh out loud book for 9–13-year olds’ and is now being developed into a feature film, also written and produced by Baddiel, by Fox 2000 Pictures. His subsequent children's novels include The Person Controller (2015), AniMalcolm (2016), Birthday Boy (2017) and Head Kid (2018). He wrote The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked, a short story published for World Book Day in 2016. In 2001, Baddiel wrote and starred in Baddiel's Syndrome, a sitcom for Sky 1 which also starred Morwenna Banks, Stephen Fry and Jonathan Bailey, which ran for fourteen episodes.
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James Traub, "Book Review: 'The Idealist'," The Wall Street Journal, 2013-09-06 The economist William Easterly, reviewing the book for Barron's, calls it "one of the most readable and evocative accounts of foreign aid ever written,"William Easterly, "The Arrogance of Good Intentions," Barron's, 2013-10-05 while Howard W. French describes The Idealist as "a devastating portrait of hubris and its consequences."Howard W. French, "The Not-So-Great Professor: Jeffrey Sachs' Incredible Failure to Eradicate Poverty in Africa," Pacific Standard, 2013-09-17 However, some reviewers, while complimenting Munk's "lively and at times, quite funny book," have argued that her portrayal of Sachs is overly critical—she is, to quote Erika Fry's review in Fortune, "a bit hard on Sachs."Ericka Fry, "Jeffrey Sachs's failed experiment in Africa," Fortune.com, 2013-10-11 Sachs himself has reportedly been dismissive of the book.Terence Corcoran, "Jeffrey Sachs Meet Hayek", National Post, 2013-09-18 On his WNYC radio show, Brian Lehrer suggests that Ms. Munk is overreaching when she concludes that foreign aid has been more harmful than good.
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His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, Harpers, Review of Contemporary Fiction, London Magazine, Gangway, Granta, Stand, Bananas, Overland, Meanjin, Southerly, Quadrant, London Review of Books, San Francisco Review of Books, New Statesman, Essays in Criticism, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Oxford Review, Modern Language Review, Griffith Review, Nation Review, National Times, The Australian, The Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald and others. His first novel, Living Together, was described by David Marr in The Bulletin as 'a very funny book and a perfect picture of the people, the time, the place'. Jan Meek wrote in Vogue Australia, 'He is so exhilaratingly adept with narrative you cannot put the book down... Wilding's pen is sharp as a rapier.' The San Francisco Review of Books hailed The Short Story Embassy, declaring Wilding was 'The best of the talent emerging from down under.' It was followed by Scenic Drive which was acclaimed in the USA: Dianna Pizza wrote in the L. A. Star: ‘Takes you on a trip that shouldn't be missed ... I laughed until I cried.
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