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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Lynne Truss Treasury (edizione 2005)di Lynne Truss (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaThe Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels di Lynne Truss
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. only read essays With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed: Despite the laboriously long title, this is actually quite a tight story. A tiny but long-lived gardening magazine is finally being closed for good, and its last few employees are coping in their own unique ways. It's one of those screwball comedies, where all the characters and plots all wind up in one place by the end, tied up through myriad coincidences. A fun book. Tennyson's Gift: I got through 50 pages of this one before giving up. I could tell it was trying to be funny but either it wasn't or I just didn't get the joke. Going Loco: A comic study of identity theft, sort of. But not in the modern sense: in the way of a person doing things for you until slowly they become you. It usually shows up in horror, so as a comedy it's very strange and a little dark. I'm not sure how I felt about it. I mean, it had its moments, but in general it just felt a little...off. But then, it could be that I'm just too American to appreciate it. Making the Cat Laugh: A selection of humorous, largely autobiographical essays. The best part of the book by far. I love this one. Too cute to be true. Anyone who spends much time exposed to human nature knows that these characters are crazy enough to be real. Picked this one up in a bargain bin and am so glad I went to the bookstore that day. A thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable piece of literature so far. Would love to see With One Lousy Packet of Seeds evolve into a movie. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, a raucous comedy of errors, follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called "Me and My Shed" for a floundering gardening magazine. When the publication is taken over by a gung-ho management team, Lonsdale must learn to cope with his new coworkers. In Tennyson's Gift and Going Loco, Truss turns a fiendishly clever eye to the literary world. Tennyson's Gift is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Going Loco features a critic trying to write a definitive account of the doppelgänger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her domestic life, including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life. Making the Cat Laugh is a riotous collection of columns about single life. Truss comments on dating, secondhand smoking, shopping, holidays, and people who ask, "How's the novel going?" All the while, she continues an eighteen-year quest to make her cat laugh. Reportedly, the feline remains unimpressed. A feast of wit, The Lynne Truss Treasury will delight fans of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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