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What do readers say about Yearbook?
fun and interesting humorous autobiographical short stories not your typical narrative exceeding expectations so farTHE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside cover flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites like this one, so… here it goes!!!
Yearbook is a collection of true storie... More details on Yearbook
My dad is from Newark, New Jersey. He somehow manages to be simultaneously bald and always in dire need of a haircut. My mom is from Vancouver, British Columbia. She’s overfunctional, but also a Kunda...
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What do readers say about Another Fine Myth?
all the characters monty python-esque humor light-hearted fantasy romp highly entertaining light readAfter the murder of his master Garkin, a thief and apprentice magician joins forces with a demon dimension traveler named Aahz... More details on Another Fine Myth
ONE of the few redeeming facets of instructors, I thought, is that occasionally they can be fooled. It was true when my mother taught me to read, it was true when my father tried to teach me to be a f...
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What do readers say about Starter for Ten?
humorous and evocative humorous and scarcastic nature a first novel this excruciatingly funny novel"Utterly charming . . . a big-hearted, flawless coming-of-age tale, as scary and funny as your yearbook picture."-People (four stars)
The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first term at university.... More details on Starter for Ten
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure,...
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What do readers say about The Colour of Magic?
fast-paced and funny very, very funny light fantastical fantasy inventive and funny'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat ... More details on The Colour of Magic
FIRE ROARED through the bifurcated city of Ankh-Morpork. Where it licked the Wizards’ Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth color, octarine; where its o...
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What do readers say about Cold Comfort Farm?
clever and funny jaunty and optimistic laugh out loud hilarious a great satireThe deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite F... More details on Cold Comfort Farm
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spa...
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What do readers say about Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
an absolute classic a truly original classic strange and entertaining pure gonzo journalismThis cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop cult... More details on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The New York office was not familiar with the Vincent Black Shadow: they referred me to the Los Angeles bureau—which is actually in Beverly Hills just a few long blocks from the Polo Lounge—but when I...
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What do readers say about Straight Man?
a campus comedy sardonic, ironic, aching academic potty humor first person narrativeHilarious and true-to-life, witty, compassionate, and impossible to put down, Straight Man follows Hank Devereaux through one very bad week in this novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo.
William Henry Devereaux, Jr., is the reluctan... More details on Straight Man
When my nose finally stops bleeding and I’ve disposed of the bloody paper towels, Teddy Barnes insists on driving me home in his ancient Honda Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as...
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What do readers say about The Big Over Easy?
who killed humpty dumpty well written and amusing massively funy spoof hilarious and imaginativeEnter the world of the Nursery Crime Division in this novel from Jasper Fforde, the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit
Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every ... More details on The Big Over Easy
It was the week following Easter in Reading, and no one could remember the last sunny day. Gray clouds swept across the sky, borne on a chill wind that cut like a knife. It seemed that spring had fors...
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What do readers say about The Necromancer?
dry, sarcastic, and sardonic dry humor and silliness supernatural + comedy dark, dry, sarcastic, humourA charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.
Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored,... More details on The Necromancer
On the outside, one wonders what happens once you pass through that terrible, cruel portal. Some believe that all Hell is somehow crammed within the rock, a place where dimensions mean nothing. Others...
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What do readers say about The Code of the Woosters?
silly and jeuvenile a fun book a hilarious silly romp set at totleigh towers'The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.' The Times (five best British comic novels)
'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you have... More details on The Code of the Woosters
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you’re going to die in about five minutes. On the previous night, I had given a little dinner at the Dr...
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