Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too)
January 20, 2020 - Comment
The perfect book for anyone with a sense of humor: more than fifty of the greatest pieces of comic writing of our time, selected by the incomparable Ian Frazier. Product Features funny entertaining book great for book clubs light read well spent afternoon More Reading For You The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel
Five Stars Great book, great editor. Laughed out loud.
hilarious humor collection! This fantastic collection (that I’m in) boasts some all time humor hall of fame winners -including editor Ian Frazier’s “Lamentations of the Father” (which ties with “Dating Your Mom” in hilarity), Larry Doyle’s classic “Life Without Leann,” Patricia Marx’s perfect “Getting Along with The Russians,” and Glenn Eichler’s droll “The Magical Grasp of Antiques” -worth the price of admission right there – and it’s for charity!
It’s for a good cause, but your reaction may vary Ian Frazier may be a better writer than editor. His “Lamentations from the Father” channels Yahweh circa Leviticus into an exasperated Dad: “Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape? And hum not that humming in your nose as I read, nor stand between the light and the book. Indeed, you will drive me to madness. Nor forget what I said about the tape.”Frazier’s entry ties for first place with what he calls “the funniest piece of the last…