Laughter the best medicine
This much acclaimed section of Reader's Digest has never gained any brownie points with me. {I have always disliked RD actually}
Anyways I have read three humorists
1. P.G.Wodehouse
2. Jerome K. Jerome
3. Saki
Saki is the best. 'Chronicles of Clovis' is ROTFL stuff. PGW is off corrs right up there but the plots are more centred around human relationships and that is not my preferred form of humor. Jerome is good but the digression kinda puts me off.
Interestingly all are about a hundred years old. Have evolutionary morphisms affected our funny bone ??
Anyways I have read three humorists
1. P.G.Wodehouse
2. Jerome K. Jerome
3. Saki
Saki is the best. 'Chronicles of Clovis' is ROTFL stuff. PGW is off corrs right up there but the plots are more centred around human relationships and that is not my preferred form of humor. Jerome is good but the digression kinda puts me off.
Interestingly all are about a hundred years old. Have evolutionary morphisms affected our funny bone ??
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Good point there... we do seem to have lost the taste for subtle humour...
read thurber..and r.k.narayanan..they're absolutely brilliant too..althouh RKN can sometimes weave in extremely poignant and touching moments without any warning....closer home (chronologically) I think we do seriously have a problem!!!
Have read and loved RKN. The simplicity.
I have never read PGW, must get myself to read atleast one book, of which I have heard so much.
Last book I read was "Inscrutable Americans", a hilarious one but was one that catered to the masses.
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