John Briggs wrote:
> 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 :-)
Oh. Well. What a niss!
> (When it was realised that the movie "Clueless" was based on Jane
Austen's
> "Emma", at least one Hollywood studio tried to sign her...)
There is not much that I can type in response to that, in public, although
the
movie title perhaps says it well enough.
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Blue Sow
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