book recomendations:
- anything by P.G. Wodehouse, master of the English language and the writer that other writers read for laughs. - anything by Douglas Adams. -anything by terry Pratchett. - The Poisonwood Bible and High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver - anything by Dave Barry, especially The complete guide to Guys. - Bill Bryson's travel books - Three men in a boat, Jerome K. Jerome - The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov - Calcium Made Interesting, Graham Chapman (the dead one from Monty Python) - just about anything by P.J. O'Rourke (a good staring point is his "Holidays in Hell" and "give War a Chance") - James Clavell, especially "Shogun" (the later books I like less) - Tom Wolfe's novels (maybe except the last one) and his "Electric Kool-Aid acid test" and "The Right Stuff". - The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens. - The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins - Watership Down, Richard Adams - The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein - all the short stories of O'Henry - McCarthy's Bar, Pete McCarthy. - How to travel With a Salmon, essays by Umberto Eco. - Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, by Johnathan Lynn and Anthony Jay. - Animal Stories, Just So Stories, Soldiers Three, and basically anything about India written by Rudiard Kipling. - The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories, Mark Twain - The Complete Short Stories, Saki - the Doonesbury books - Calvin and Hobbes this is a little less than two hundered books. Let me know when you're done and I'll give you some more titles