I remember this illustrated children's book from the 1970's, a vaguely Arthurian fantasy with anthropomorphic pigs. I think the main character was named "Hamlet" and there were other pig themed puns. He had an Excaliber-like sword that was all rusty and bent up. Please help me find it again.
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posted by wobh
on Dec 4, 2012 -
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There's a particular sort of humor writer I like. Can you recommend more books in this style? Mid-century, writing about domestic matters, female, personal.
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posted by The corpse in the library
on Nov 30, 2012 -
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I need suggestions of fictional or non-fictional books or films that deal with illness or dying in relation to humor/the absurd.
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posted by Felicity Rilke
on Sep 19, 2012 -
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It's my grandmother's birthday next week, and I'd like to give her some sort of book with cute and funny short stories/jokes, a la
Reader's Digest. It should also be clean humor
only. Any suggestions?
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posted by iamfantastikate
on Sep 21, 2011 -
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I want to be a sharper, wittier writer and conversationalist like the O.G. Dorothy Parker or, hey, even Coketalk. I admire funny, confident women, and while I think I'm moderately funny in person (years of low self-esteem will do wonders for your self-deprecating humor skills once you come out of it, go figure), I'd like to beef it up a bit, as well as learn how to express that more in my writing.
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posted by themaskedwonder
on Oct 24, 2010 -
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I'm looking for recommendations for some books for my dad, who likes Tony Hillerman, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, and John LeCarre.
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posted by creepygirl
on Jun 13, 2009 -
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What are the cleverest, wittiest picture books you know? I'm looking for something you might recommend to a very smart kid who is still young enough to prefer picture books to chapter books. Another way of putting is, I'm looking for the picture book equivalent of McSweeney's.
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posted by yankeefog
on Apr 21, 2009 -
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Can you help me with titles, online shopping sources for 1950s tongue-in-cheek sex/marriage manual?
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posted by Lesser Shrew
on Jun 21, 2008 -
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Can you suggest some books that will make a bunch of second graders laugh? I am scheduled as "Surprise Reader" in my son's second grade class this week, and I need some
new (to me) humorous and/or weird picture books to read to the class. Previously William Steig and David Greenberg ("Slugs", "Snakes", and "Bugs") have gone over well, but I need some new material! Thanks!
posted by chr1sb0y
on Mar 11, 2008 -
24 answers
I'm looking for books where the author immerses himself in an experience and then writes about it
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posted by reenum
on Feb 7, 2008 -
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I'm looking for recommendations for fake science books, or humoristic books in the style of a science book. Examples: the
Haggis-on-Whey books, or J.K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".
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posted by easternblot
on Jan 21, 2008 -
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Any suggestions for classic literature that offers the hope of belly laughs? I'm looking for laugh-out-loud funny classic fiction, preferably pre-1900. Kind of like
this question, but with books instead of movies.
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posted by mediareport
on May 8, 2006 -
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In the 1980s I came across a slim book about people with language-related mental disorders, such as a person who had a phobia of English and chose to speak French for the rest of his life. This book was NOT
Lunatic Lovers of Language by Marina Yaguello. Can you identify it?
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posted by rwhe
on Apr 22, 2005 -
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Does anyone have a link to a web site I vaguely remember seeing that summarizes classic novel plots in one or two sentences? For example, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment could be "Special guy wonders if he’s entitled to commit murder. Turns out the answer is no." I stole that one from an article in the Scotsman that I did find, but I can't seem to find the site in question by googling.
posted by hazyjane
on Feb 21, 2005 -
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