Showing posts with label funny books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funny books. Show all posts

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Podcast Review: The Ricky Gervais Guide Promotion Episodes

I laugh more at the Guide to... ebooks than anything else on my ipod.

Podcast Review: The Ricky Gervais Guide Promotion Episodes

Ten promotional episodes offer over an hour happy listening as Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant coax and provoke Karl Pilkington.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Podcast Review: "The Blessing Bee" by Shalom Auslander

I liked this story until I read it in print, and then the pettiness sunk in and diminished it a bit. It's better to just not think about it too much when you are listening.

Podcast Review: "The Blessing Bee" by Shalom Auslander

"Some kids have all the luck," Shalom says...after a classmate's father dies. He decides to save his own family from his dad by praising and insulting God.
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

eBook Review: My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

This is possibly the best autobiography I've ever read. I don't even care how much (if any of it) is true. Russell Brand is like Robert Lovelace come to life.

eBook Review: My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

This autobiography goes beyond a comedian's memoir about his various addictions. This is a libertine's celebration of himself, and it is beautifully done.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Audiobook Review of Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not

If Wigfield ever becomes an ebook and makes it onto my Kindle, it will be my favorite book of the millennium.

Audiobook Review of Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not

In some towns, people are afraid of the local serial killers. In this surrealist satire-comedy, residents are afraid they are the local serial killers.