BTT: The Sad Truth Behind Good Books
What’s the funniest book you’ve read recently?
Alright, this is the most depressing question I’ve ever been asked, I think. I’m a funny person. I enjoy witty prose and word plays. I laugh. I laugh a lot. My husband is hilarious. My son is hysterical. Most of my friends would make you pee your panites.
So why, on earth, are all of my reviewed books, for lack of a better term, unfunny?
Sure, there’s acerbic dry wit; I like post modernism, everything is a running joke. The thing is, there’s never anything that would make a reader laugh out loud. There are chuckles here and giggles there but, again, nothing of true note in the comedy category.
I think that I’m going to go with either Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You or The Great Perhaps.
Not laugh, riots, I know, but they’re all I’ve got.
This is all. I am a little bit depressed, which I’m sure was not the point of this venture.
I think I am setting myself a goal of finding something “funny”.
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This question had a sobering effect on me too!
http://readbookswritepoetry.blogspot.com/2009/07/booking-through-funny-bone.html
With books, funny is so often in the mind of the reader rather than the book itself, I find.
You’ll find mine here
I have to say we are in the same track!! I don’t read a lot of funny books too…but I one af my all time fav is a funny book 🙂
For a quick, easy, hilarious read, I always
*Note: I should seriously post after my 16 mo old goes to bed*.
Anyhoo, for a quick, easy, hilarious read, I always turn to Janet Evanovich – her Stephanie Plum series is always a barrel of laughs for me. I’m not sure the “serious book blogging community” would agree, but that’s the point of this post, right? 😉 I just read Fearless Fourteen… the first book I’ve read since pregnancy! Yay!
Thanks for visiting my blog, I don’t really read many funny books either!!
I know. I so agree with you. We all should read more funny books 🙂
I found that I don’t read funny books either, but I do listen to them!
I agree – I thought it was sad that I found it difficult to answer too. Perhaps good literature is too serious?
I’m not one for reading funny books either. I think some books I read have humor in them by I usually steer clear of outright comedy in books.
Oh I like this post. I know just what you mean – perhaps we’ve just got to look through other people’s funnies for inspiration.
If you’re looking to laugh out loud, try my pick! Here is my response.
(I think I sound a little like a used car salesman here 🙂
I’m a suker of sad novels and stories with sad ending.