20.1 (The Most Improved Player - Cindy AL - April Fool)

[Cindy AL]

Yes Nicki and yes Jennifer - tell us why you think it is fummy

[kiki]

Jennifer wrote: "Would A Confederacy of Dunces work for this task?"

i thought it was hilarious! so there's a vote on your side! :)

[Sara ♥]

HOLY CRAP, Cindy. You almost gave me a heart attack. I'm a skimmer, so at first I saw "1000+ page" and was like, "SERIOUSLY?" and then I read it again, and it said, "THREE 1000+ page" ("WHHHAAATTTT?????????????") And then I realized the task was called "April Fool", and I was like, "Oh... It's probably a joke... okay..." and I read the whole thing. That's what I get for not reading carefully, eh???

Tanja wrote: "I wonder if The Ski Mask Way would qualify! Esp since many of us Seasonals have had great amusement talking about that book."

*SNORTS* Classic! I really DO need to read that dang book. (Wow... Have you read the description? CRAZY!!)

I own The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life... but I think a LOT of books are hilarious, so... we'll see what I end up reading!

[Jamie (The Perpetual Page-Turner)]

LOL Sara..I did the same thing! I was actually really annoyed when I first read it. lol..like "you've got to be kidding me"...but then I decided to read it over again and then I saw the the 3 and panicked but then I slowwwwed down and read it and laughed at myself.

Good one Cindy!:)

[Usako]

Best description. Hands down, Sara <3

[Sara ♥]

Definitely the best, but I can't figure out from the description if I would laugh through the whole book or be completely horrified. ;) I think there must be a fine line there...

[Manday]

I plan to read Three Men in a Boat, which is what the book To Say Nothing of the Dog is titled after. The latter is hilarious, so I am hoping the original is funny as it sounds.

[Usako]

Sara <3 on Amazon, it has a rating of 4 stars which include comments as "But I enjoyed the Ski Mask Way !!..It was fresh and intriguing. Makes me want to read his other books !!" and "But for that one, I swear I could not stop because every chapter was different, every persona were entertaining ( Butter was my favorite, he is what you call a real dude) and it kept you guessing until the end."

[Cindy AL]

To Say Nothing of the Dog is OUTSTANDING, I highly recommend it, although it isn't laugh out loud funny, it is definitely humorous. I would be careful, though, it would fit another challenge that might be harder to find a book for. I've never read Three Men in a boat, but it is supposed to be pretty funny, too.

Another book that is quite light and humorous, but not obviously so is A Civil Campaign it has space travel too, and is a wonderful romance.

[Manday]

I laughed out load at To Say Nothing of the Dog! It reminded me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in its randomness and tone.

[Ashley FL]

What about a Sophie Kinsella book? I picked up Remember Me? in the book sale at the library and it describes itself as "hilarious", lol. (at least, the NY Post, according to the cover, thinks Kinsella is hilarious). I'm not sure if it's straight humor, or just more. . . humerous. If that makes sense.

Anyway, thought I'd throw it out there!

[Cindy AL]

If you think it is funny, tell us why and it will count.

[Coralie]

Can you count a book which you didn't find funny at all although it won a prize for comic fiction?

[Amanda]

Could I read The Teachers Funeral:A comedy in Three Parts for this task?

[Cindy AL]

Can you count a book which you didn't find funny at all although it won a prize for comic fiction?

Coralie, if you;ve already read it, count it, but I was hoping people would read things that they thought were humorous.

Amanda, that's OK if you think it is funny.

[Coralie]

I'm about half-way through and so far I've failed to laugh, but I think it would make a hilarious film. I guess I just don't find funny books funny.

[Sandra]

Would Random Acts Of Management:A Dilbert Book work for this task?

[scherzo♫]

Cindy wrote: "Can you count a book which you didn't find funny at all although it won a prize for comic fiction?

Coralie, if you;ve already read it, count it, but I was hoping people would read things that they thought were humorous...."

I wish it were easy to find a funny book. I don't have much luck with books that are labelled as humorous. When I laugh out loud at something in a book, it's usually only one or two scenes in an otherwise serious book -- Belgarath and the stone when he's learning wizardry is one.

The book I'm reading for this task (No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year) is supposed to be funny, but I'm more than half-way through and haven't laughed, smiled, giggled ... nada

[Sandra]

Would Can You Keep a Secret? be considered humorous?

[Cindy AL]

OK PJ, some of the dialog in Edding's books is some of the funniest I've ever read. And the scene with the stone is a classic. To me some of the Belgariad counts, because it is meant to be funny and touching and serious at the same. Although there is more humor in the Elenium and Tamuli books.

sandra that could count as funny...do you think it is funny? That is what I was getting at - share with us books that make you laugh out loud, whether it is one or two scenes or the whole book.

[Sara ♥]

Cindy - Does the entire book need to be funny? I just read Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes, and I definitely laughed a lot. (The characters did and said the FUNNIEST things sometimes!) But it's also sort of a huge tearjerker at time... I cried all through one part... Just curious!

[Cindy AL]

I think that's OK, Sara

[Sara ♥]

Sweet... Thanks!