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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Biography, Comedy, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 3, 2025November 5, 2024

All About Me! – Mel Brooks

I am not sure why I picked this up. It was perhaps a combination of wanting something funny, wanting to

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Comedy, Non-Fiction, Satire  0 Comments

December 8, 2023June 18, 2023

Pianeta Terra – Astutillo Smeriglia

Smeriglia’s satire is good, but it works better with his cartoons.

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Comedy, Fantasy, Fiction, Humour, Novel, Parody  2 Comments

December 1, 2023May 11, 2023

Orconomics and Son of a Liche – J. Zachary Pike

“” by @jzacharypike makes me feel less alone in the world.

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Comedy, Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

July 14, 2023May 11, 2023

The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge – Harry Harrison

More reading for escapism.

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February 17, 2023January 29, 2022

The Rooster Bar – John Grisham

Bad Lawyers doing bad things.

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Comedy, English, Fiction, Humour, Novel  2 Comments

August 5, 2022August 22, 2021

Right ho, Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse

Jumping into a novel in the middle of a series is never a great idea.

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Novel  0 Comments

May 27, 2022July 28, 2021

Florence of Arabia – Christopher Buckley

While the story was interesting enough, the humor failed to deliver.

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

August 28, 2020July 30, 2020

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.

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May 22, 2020April 12, 2020

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers – Grant Naylor

A book that is a rehash of a TV show could be disappointing, unless it is a really good TV show.

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Comedy, Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

December 27, 2019September 10, 2019

Digging Up Mother – Doug Stanhope

The temptation to abandon something you are not initially enjoying is not always something to heed. If you do, you may miss out on some pretty great things.

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