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| Doug Adams, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt...who else fits this catagory?
Posted: 5/18/2008 10:27:12 PM | | I've long enjoyed Douglas Adams writing & some years ago a friend introduced me to Pratchett's wonderful Discworld series. Then I stumbled across Tom Holt & most recently Jasper Fforde (who may be the funniest yet.) My question is: who else should I be reading? It needn't be fantasy or scifi, any fiction that's sharp, funny & literate would be great. Piers Anthony, Carl Hiassen, & Janet Evanovich's 'Stephanie Plum' series are not bad, but I know there must be much more I haven't found. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. | |
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| Doug Adams, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt...who else fits this catagory?
Posted: 5/18/2008 10:41:16 PM | Try some of the "Stainless Steel Rat" novels by Harry Harrison. i've read these books over and over for years and still have the odd giggle at them. he also wrote a very funny series of books about "Bill The Galactic Hero" with such titles as Bill The Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains.....says it all really...lol
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| Doug Adams, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt...who else fits this catagory?
Posted: 5/19/2008 6:27:27 AM | I know there must be much more I haven't found. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote funny, acerbic satire from the early 1950s until his death about a year ago.
His sharpest work is from the late sixties and into the seventies. I'd recommend beginning with the brilliant "Breakfast Of Champions", and go from there .
I've long enjoyed Douglas Adams writing
May 25 is Towel Day.
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| Doug Adams, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt...who else fits this catagory?
Posted: 5/19/2008 11:17:09 AM | One of the most often overlooked funny writers in SF (and let's make this clear at the start: for any real fan, it's "SF" and never "sci-fi") is Robert Sheckley. He has a surreal, absurdist style that will be familiar to any fan of Adams - who one might suspect might have been inspired by Sheckley in his writing.
If you can find a copy of Sheckley's novel "Dimension of Miracles" give it a read; it's a great SF classic which I've heard mentioned alongside the Hitchhiker's Guide series and Vonnegut's marvelous "Slaughterhouse Five" - and it's a book I've loved reading more than once. | |
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| Doug Adams, Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt...who else fits this catagory?
Posted: 6/14/2008 7:30:33 PM | Based on your screen name and the first author you listed, you might like this guy, he is pretty fun.
Tom Sharpe (born 30 March 1928) is an English satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until deported in 1961.
His work in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure. From 1963 until 1972 he was a History lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, which inspired his "Wilt" series Wilt, The Wilt Alternative, Wilt on High and Wilt in Nowhere.
His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of the apartheid regime (Riotous Assembly and its sequel Indecent Exposure), dumbed-down education (the Wilt series), English class snobbery (Ancestral Vices, Porterhouse Blue, Grantchester Grind), the literary world (The Great Pursuit), political extremists of all stripes, political correctness, bureaucracy and stupidity in general. Characters may indulge in bizarre sexual practices, and coarser characters use very graphic and/or profane language in dialogue. Sharpe often parodies the language and style of specific authors commonly associated with the social group held up for ridicule. Sharpe's bestselling books have been translated into many languages.
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