What funny book are you reading, December 2009?

I'm into the Alan Moore collection, Tomorrow Stories Book 2.

I just finished Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends and I'm now starting You Suck by CM.

Oh yeah . . . I started the George Saunders collection, In Persuasion Nation.

I've just finished Holidays On Ice.

I just started Gahan Wilson's humorous detective tribute, Everybody's Favorite Duck.

A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg

Danajean- Did you know Moore is coming out with a third vampire book. It's sequel to You suck its called Bite Me, You can check it out on his site.

Just finished basket case by carl hiaasen. Its was nice to read a funny, well written crime novel.

Has anyone read Fran Leibowitz? Written in the 70's by a social-climbing New Yorker, they are without question, the most hilarious books I've ever read. Social Studies is better than Metropolitan Life but both are worth checking out. I read the first one on my front porch at 2am and I can assure you my dead silent nieghborhood was not anything like as amused as I was. She's the single most qoutable writer ever!! Right ahead of Florence King, who should be memorized by everyone!!

I read Social Studies when it came out; I got it after seeing her on a talk show (I think it may have been Letterman). She is exactly like her writing - sarcastic, smart and very New York.

Have your read anything by Cynthia Heimel? I first read her columns in the Village Voice in the eighties. I still have her classic "The Boyfriend Crunch" tacked to my bulletin board. Sex Tips for Girls is a collection of those columns - a bit rewritten to give the book some flow - but still a good picture of a New York woman of the eighties.

I'm finishing up on Christopher Moore's A Dirty Job. It definitely has its moments.

This is a surprising title, but I just finished the Pluto Files by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and found it entertaining. While you do learn a lot about Pluto and the solar system, Tyson includes the public reaction to the whole controversy, cartoons, song lyrics, letters. Very amusing.
On a much more traditonal note, I finally read The Cat-Nappers by P. G. Wodehouse. The more of a reader you are, the more you'll enjoy this since so much of the humor is twisted literary references.

marguax, I am so sorry I'm just seeing this. I need to come around more often. Yes, I did see where he's got that new one coming out and I'm looking forward to it. I love his silly sense of humor. I still have a couple of his I haven't read yet, so trying to read everything he's got out there. My favorite so far as been Fool. What about you?