Blue Sow wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
>> On Jul 29, 4:02 pm, Neil Jones <castellan2004-cn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Don Phillipson wrote:
>>>> "Neil Jones" <castellan2004-cn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>> news:E85ri.12270$GO6.1721@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> The only funny author that I know is P.G. Wodehouse
>>>>> who makes fun of the mistakes of the rich. Are there any other
>>>>> good authors or classic books that are funny?
>>>> Tell us first whether you prefer American, British or
>>>> other funny novels. People who enjoy Thurber or S.J.
>>>> Perelman may not enjoy Roald Dahl or Evelyn Waugh.
>>> Thank you for replying. I am interested in funny novels without
>>> any bad language. It does not matter if it is
>>> British/American/Australian/Indian. NJ
>>
>> Most of the Jerome K. Jerome books.
>>
>> For light mystery reading the early Donald Westlake books are fun.
>>
>> For rather funny but caustic social commentary Jane Eyre
>
> The last comment, in itself, is hilarious.
> That particular novel is about as funny as sawing off a limb (of
> one's own) without the benefit of anaesthetic. It is almost
> certainly intended by the author to be even less funny than that.
I think he meant Jane Austen :-)
(When it was realised that the movie "Clueless" was based on Jane Austen's
"Emma", at least one Hollywood studio tried to sign her...)
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John Briggs
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