Books: Humor
Currently listing articles 504-451:
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Book Review - You Idiot: The First Book by Nate Gangelhoff— A reprint of some not-too-old zines, full of bizarre and irreverent product reviews.
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Book Review: Dilbert 2.0 - 20 Years of Dilbert by Scott Adams— Two decades of office satire, subversion and surreality.
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Book Review: I Believe In Yesterday by Tim Moore— The author steps joins Roman re-enactors and Viking retromaniacs, and discovers they're not just playing for time.
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Book Review: The Ghost and the Femme Fatale by Alice Kimberly— Pen McClure and the ghost of PI Jack Shepard confront a twisted mystery spanning 60 years and offering certain death.
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Manga Review: Iron Wok Jan – Volume 27 by Shinji Saijyo— The popular Japanese cooking comedy comes to a calculatedly frustrating finish.
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Book Review: White Tiger by Aravind Adiga— While White Tiger reveals the dark matter in the cosmos of Indian reality, its exposition and complexity requires understanding and humanity absent in this novel.
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Graphic Fiction Review: The Soddyssey and Other Tales of Supernatural Law by Batton Lash— A reissued collection of comic stories blends monsters and legal dramedy to humorous and satiric effect.
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Book Review: Don't Stop Believin' - How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life by Brian Raftery— A great gift for that friend of yours prone to singing badly at parties and other forms of lampshade wearing fun.
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Book Review: Why the Long Face - a Collection of Stories by Ron MacLean— The common thread in each story is the reality of human action and emotion.
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Interview with J.L. Miles, Author of Divorcing Dwayne— "Never make career decisions while waiting on a man with a knitting needle who intends to stab you in the mouth with it."
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Book Review: Raucous Royals - Test Your Royal Wits: Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, And Deduce Which Royal Rumors Are True by Carlyn Beccia— Catherine the Great didn't die beneath her horse? Oh dear - looks like I've been guilty of spreading a 200-years-old rumor.
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Graphic Novel Review: The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: Dead Man's Jest— An unimpressive collection of a dozen Simpsons Halloween tales
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Interview with Humor Writer Kelly Epperson, Author of When Life Stinks, It's Time To Wash the Gym Clothes— "Readers and editors kept suggesting that I make a compilation of columns in book form."
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Graphic Fiction Review: Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce - edited by Tom Pomplun— A new edition of comic adaptations of the great American cynic's writings proves as entertainingly bleak as any alt comic.
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DVD Review: George Carlin - It's Bad For Ya— George Left Us With a New HBO Special Before He Left Us...
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Book Review: Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill by N.M. Kelby— N.M. Kelby sustains a complicated plot, hysterically funny and sophisticated dialogue, and beautifully rendered musings on art, life, and Florida’s ecosystem.
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Book Review: The Cream Of Tank Girl By Alan C. Martin and Jamie Hewlett— Back to those innocent days when a girl and her tank could travel the outback with her kangaroo boyfriend, terrorizing stupid people and blowing up
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Book Review: Options - The Secret Life of Steve Jobs by Daniel Lyons — oPtion$ takes us into the life and culture of Steve Jobs in the hilarious and interesting parody.
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Graphic Novel Review: Creature Tech by Doug TenNapel— Creature Tech has humor, monsters, bargains with demons, space eels and theological debates. It seems to be too good to be true. Sadly, it is.
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Interview with Mary Cunningham, co-author of WOOF: Women Only Over 50 — "Letting women know they’re not alone is our prime objective," says Cunningham.
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Book Review: Don't Go There! - The Travel Detective's Essential Guide to the Must-Miss Places of the World by Peter Greenberg— Peter Greenberg's handy and useful compendium may help you decide where you don't want to go on your next trip.
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Book Review: WOOF - Women Only Over Fifty by Diana Black, Mary Cunningham, and Melinda Richarz Bailey
— A hilarious, uplifting little book about the 'joys' of getting old.
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Book Review: The Worst Case Survival Handbook - Dating and Sex by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht — Dating troubles? It's a jungle out there, but lucky for you, there is a survival guide to help you through.
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Book Review: Stiff - The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach— Before reading this, I never knew dead people could be so "lively."
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Book Review: ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley— Miss Popularity wannabe, Charlotte Usher, can't avoid high school. Not even after she dies!
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Book Review: Garfield Minus Garfield by Jim Davis and Dan Walsh— The popular comic strip takes on new life when the title tabby's out the picture.
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Comics Review: American Elf: Book Three by James Kochalka— The third collection of James Kochalka's daily diary cartoon continues a winning mix of humor and honesty about living your life.
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Book Review: The Elfish Gene - Dungeons, Dragons, and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe— A wonderful coming-of-age tale about the influences of Dungeons and Dragons, teenage antics, and a desire for acceptance.
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Book Review: Nation by Terry Pratchett— It's too bad we couldn't receive more of our education through books like this.
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Book Review - Santa Responds: He's Had Enough... and He's Writing Back! by Santa Claus— A comical book in which Santa's snapped and is now writing back to the kids.
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Book Review: The Mental Floss History of the World by Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand— An "irreverent" recounting of world history is stronger on history than irreverence.
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Book Review - Dead Air: A Cycling Murder Mystery by Greg Moody— A quick, fun, and painless ride, but it won't throw you over the handlebars in surprise.
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Book Review: Men With Balls - The Professional Athlete's Handbook by Drew Magary— If you discover a funnier book about football this year, you somehow got ahold of Eli Manning's diary.
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Book Review: The Dictionary of High School B.S. - From Acne to Varsity, All the Funny, Lame, and Annoying Aspects of High School Life by Lois Beckwith— A humorous look at one of the most over-dramatic, embarrassing, and amazing times in most of our lives.
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Book Review: He Is... I Say - How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Neil Diamond by David Wild— This love letter to Neil Diamond is also in many ways a book about music criticism itself. Damn you, David Wild!
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Interview with Marta Acosta, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Casa Dracula Series— "I’ve always been a fan of paranormal stories that have a strong humorous component as well as a quasi-scientific explanation for oddities," says Acosta.
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Book Review: Humpty Dumpty, Jr., Hardboiled Detective #1: The Case of the Fiendish Flapjack Flop by Nate Evans, Paul Hindman, and Vince Evans— Private Eye Humpty Dumpty, Jr. hits the mean streets and scrambles for clues.
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Book Review (Novella): The Vault Of Deeds by James Barclay— With Barclay so farcically and satirically standing the hero genre on its head, you'll never look upon heroic fantasy in quite the same way again.
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Book Review: Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty— A great, original story that doesn't come along often. And when do you encounter powers like smelling a person’s past and shooting feces from fists?
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Book Review: Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins — Jenkins set out to bring the stereotypes, and thought and laughter, of football, and he manages to "semi-succeed."
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Graphic Novel Review: Fluffy by Simone Lia— Portrays the playful relationship between a bunny and the man she is convinced is her father.
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Book Review - Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots by Marty Beckerman— A sardonic search and destroy mission aimed at extremist positions plaguing modern politics.
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Book Review: The Timewaster Letters by Robin Cooper— A light, frothy bathroom reader which requires little thinking - done, in one case, just for the halibut.
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Satire: Music Fan Ponders Fate of Collection after His Demise— One music fan worries about his collection once he's gone
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Graphic Novel Review: Mr. Monster: His Books of Forbidden Knowledge, Volume One by Michael T. Gilbert et al— Michael T. Gilbert breaths life into an unlikely mixture of horror, humor and superheroes and gives us the wonderful Mister Monster.
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Book Review: "The Workshop of Filthy Creation" - The Art of Johnny Ace and Kali Verra — A new hardbound collection pays tribute to the Kustom Kulture art of Johnny "Childish" Ace.
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Book Review: Mike's Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore and The Do-It-Yourself Constitutional Amendment Kit by Nathaniel Whitten— Two new works of political satire each achieve mixed results in combining humor, advocacy and education.
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Book Review: Please Sir, There's A Snake In The Art Room by Keith Geddes— A prep school headmaster exchanges Twickenham, London for Ngong, Nairobi. Kenya provides new, different challenges.
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Book Review: Manual by Daren King— Two London sex industry workers and their stuffed owl are one day paid by a wealthy client to take care of his love interest
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Book Review: I'm Not Crazy, But I Might Be A Carrier - Infectious Inspiration From Comedian Charles Marshall — Genuinely entertaining Christian comedy, with a sprinkling of inspirational insights.
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Book Review: The Learners by Chip Kidd— Graphic designer maintains creative touch with second novel.
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Book Review - You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values by Win McCormack— A fascinating and trashy spin through Republican scandals.
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Book Review: Sold Out So What! by Max Deale— A light fratire/how-to account on how to get into sporting events and concerts for cheap. But will they work?
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BC Radio Live: Troy Johnson, Christopher Tennant, AirPlay's Chris Bull, and Ralph Peters— Rich people, gay people, adventurers, and game players — all in a week's work.
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