Funny Book Club

Funny Book Reviews.

2010-10-03T09:32:00.000-07:00

Love funny books?
Fancy writing a review of some of your favourites
to appear on the funny book club blog?

If you do, email me your reviews and a bit about
yourself and any links to funnybookclub@live.co.uk

Reviews of all funny books are welcome!

Karl Pilkington

2010-10-03T09:10:00.000-07:00

Funny Book Club has been enjoying An Idiot Abroad and cannot wait to read the book!

And the winner is...

2010-04-01T03:52:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Richard Maitland who wins The Spoof Mis-Lit competition with his entry "No Willy, No Woman, No Cry"

We can't wait to see the finished novel, Richard!

Thanks again to Daisy Anne Gree for judging the competition!
Happy Funny Book Day everyone!

Competition Time!

2010-03-22T06:48:00.000-07:00

Here at funny book club, we have no time for miserable literature and we want more funny books!
We salute Daisy Goodwin who has recently spoken about the amount of mis lit in the 2010 Orange Prize list.

In time for "We Want Funny Books Day" on April 1st, we are launching a competition to come up with the best mis-lit spoof title.

The prize is four funny books from Endaxi Press, including volumes of Banana The Poet's hilarious Alternative Poetry Books and the soon to be released " Beach Book" - a collection of funny summer stories by some of the funniest writers around.
You will also win a mock up copy of your spoof mis-lit book.

To start you off, here's a few funny book club has received already:

The Lice Man Cometh- A nit nurse saga set in a middle England Primary School

My P.E Hell

The swapped me for a Pot Noodle

Leave your entries in the comments here, or come and join in the silliness at #funnybookclub on twitter.

Follow @funnybookclub for details.

Competition closes 29th March 2010

We look forward to your entries!

This weeks recommendations...

2010-02-16T03:46:00.000-08:00

We're still not sure whether Funny Book Club is a book club about funny books or just a book club that's funny, in the funny peculiar sense as well as funny ha ha. This weeks book club as usual seemed to be a bit of both.

Inspired by a tweet from @kevcecil and there was a bit of chat about the Natural Law party and yogic flying as well as some entertaining chat from @TomBatnumber30 about things to say to unwanted callers at your door.

Tom had to leave early due to some kind of preparing potatoes crisis as did @patblack9 who was not preparing potatoes but off to indulge in a monosodium glutamate feast in the form of a chinese buffet. Pat did leave us with a couple of recommendations before he ate more mini spring rolls that you can shake a (chop) stick at.

I'd be interested to know where that phrase comes from, who was the first person who had just enough things meaning it was okay to shake a stick at them? And who was the person who had more things you could shake a stick at? "I'm sorry, I just have too many of these now, far too many to shake my stick. The numbers must be reduced so that stick shaking can resume."

Anyway, Pat recommended A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and also mentioned he enjoyed Money by Martin Amis. Pat mentioned that this was about to be televised for BBC starring Nick Frost. Funny Book Club is looking forward to that!

Nick Frost also starred in Hyperdrive written by comedy writer person @kevcecil who popped into funny book club to recommend Pirates In an Adventure With Scientists by Gideon Defoe. Kev has been working on the film for Defoe's book and it is being released in 2012.

Lori - @lacarrington1 called in too with a link to a list of Funny Women's Fiction From this list Lori thought that The Forty Fitters was the best.

Also had some great recommendations from @stevyncolgan Stevyn is currently reading Mark Gatiss third Lucifer Box novel 'Black Butterfly' and also suggested any of the Timewaster books by Robin Cooper, and also 'The Pyrates' by George McDonald Fraser, one of his favourites.

Funny Book Club is also going to check out @stevyncolgan 's book Joined Up Thinking.

Stephen Fry said of Joined Up Thinking "

I found myself fascinated and somewhat dizzy. Most impressive."

This weeks recommendations are listed here below. If you have any favourite funny books, please use the hashtag #funnybookclub on twitter at any time. We meet every Monday for a chat at approximately 18.42 sharp (GMT). All welcome. Follow @funnybookclub for details.

First funny book club

2010-01-27T12:49:00.001-08:00

Join us for #funnybookclub on Twitter - Monday 1st Feb at approximately 6.42pm sharp. (GMT)

We'll be chatting about funny books and why we like to read them.

Bring along your favourite funny book, if nothing else, it will give you something to do if you get bored.

It's not very clear whether we are going to be a club about funny books or just a book club that's a bit... you know ... funny.

We'll be having a special guest. Maybe, if they decide to turn up.

Follow Funny Book Club on twitter @funnybookclub

and use the hashtag #funnybookclub to join in.

See you there. Bring a friend.

Funny Book Club

2010-01-25T10:40:00.000-08:00

Hi. Welcome to funny book club!