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Old 12-09-08 | 08:43 PM
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I need some more laugh out loud nonfiction to read. I've only read 2 that made me laugh. They are Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein and Winterdance BY Gary Paulsen. I need some more recomendations thanks Kenney
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I have enjoyed several of those (non-fiction) works of Bill Bryson that I've read.
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P.J. O'Rourke has some good stuff.
Old 12-10-08 | 07:16 PM
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How about Dave Eggars: A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius?
Old 12-11-08 | 04:11 PM
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Jim Norton, comedian, has two books out. Give him a look.
Old 12-11-08 | 05:23 PM
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Willie Nelson has published a few books, including "The Facts of Life (And Other Dirty Jokes)." It's a thin read, unlike his excellent "Willie: An Autobiography," which is less humorous, but a book I strongly suggest.
Old 12-12-08 | 07:15 PM
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Story of Civilization, by Will Durant - 11 volumes of a summarization of history since the dawn of man to Napoleon. It's not a complete historical treaty, rather its written to be accessible to everyday people (read: non-historians/those who don't study every minute detail of history) and is full of the authors humorous wit
Old 12-18-08 | 01:23 PM
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I have enjoyed several of those (non-fiction) works of Bill Bryson that I've read.
I loved and laughed out loud often reading Bryon's The Life & Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
Old 12-18-08 | 01:43 PM
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David Sedaris:
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Holidays On Ice
Me Talk Pretty One Day
When You Are Engulfed in Flames


really just about anything he's written...
Old 12-18-08 | 01:47 PM
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Bill Bryson, by far. Note The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is fiction.

Most of his other works, including his best (In a Sunburned Country, A Walk in the Woods), are non-fiction.
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A second for Sedaris.

The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling.
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Re: funny nonfiction

P.J. O'Rourke is good.

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