I'm with alinnell on Running With Scissors--the book just wan't funny for me. For one thing, they weren't sex scenes, they were rape scenes. I don't believe that it is possible for a 13-year old boy to consent to sex with a 30-year old. Sex that is not consensual is rape. The whole poop inspection thing was just gross. And I was really bothered by the daughter killing the cat. That was awful.

And the problem is that Burroughs wrote about it all like it supposed to be funny. Like was funny that a 30-year old was repeatly raping a 13-year old, like it was funny that the daughter killed the cat. There were some things that were genuinely funny, but the other stuff really overwhelmed the rest of the book for me. I felt sick to my stomach when I finished it. But I'm the minority--I know a lot of people thought the book was hilarious.

A book that I did find to be laugh-out-loud funny is Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Rosenthal. No rape scenes or cat killing.

Also, I find anything by Tim Cahill to be laugh-out-loud funny, especially Road Fever. I've read it probaby 10 times and I still laugh every time.

I snicked a Barbara Delinsky from work yesterday. More Than Friends.
I read Three Wishes years ago and bawled my eyes out. I never do that with a book.

I am also re-reading Harry Potter-I'm almost done with book 3. I am rereading because I realized when I read number 6 finally that i had forgotten everything that had happened before. They are fairly quick and easy reads though, I'm sure I'll be done in time to read number 7.

I thought the movie Running with Scissors was hilarious - but I do have an evil sense of what is funny (the house of yes for instance). Now I think I should get the book.

Before I got sucked into Harry Potter, I started reading an Amy Tan book called The Kitchen God's Wife - what I read so far is great, and multiple times I've laughed out loud already.

The Alchemist was great, I definitely think everyone should read that book.

I mostly read sci-fi/fantasy and I am dying waiting for the next George RR Martin book in his Fire and Ice series. I think I'll be waiting another year though. :(

Originally Posted by NotTheCheat:
I just started Grave Sight after finishing the Sookie/Southern Vampire series. Those were so much fun I figured I wanted to check out her others. It is actually my gym book (I get the large print versions so I can read on the elliptical).

These were the first books I've found by Harris and I liked the sort of dour tone they have. There is another one in the series coming out in the fall. My branch library doesn't have any other of her books :tantrum:, but I was able to reserve a couple others through the county system.

i've just started Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris, and re-reading (because I love it so much) Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri.

i really want to read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, gotta get my hands on it!

Originally Posted by kateconfessional:
i really want to read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, gotta get my hands on it!

Oh yeah, that's a wonderful book!

I just finished reading Bright Lights Big *** by Jen Lancaster. I absolutely loved her first book, Bitter is the New Black. Bright Lights was pretty good, but not as funny as the first book.

I am currently in a non fiction mode. I am reading Mayflower: A Story of Courage Community and War and One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding - they are both pretty good!

Next up - horror! I have Stephen King's book Blaze and his son's book, Heart Shaped Box. I still in the queue at the library for Rethinking Thin, hopefully I will get it soon so I can participate in the discussions in the Maintainer's forum.

I finished Majestic Descending: it wasn't as good as I expected, the second half anyway, I was kind of expecting more chases (hey, I like Dan Brown's stuff especially Deception Point), and the writer gives the heroine a grisly backstory which ended up having NOTHING to do with the main story (it probably would have been too much to expect that the backstory would connect with the plot, but then why bother with the backstory?) :blah:

Now I'm starting on Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, about a flock of sheep solving the murder of their shepherd, who used to read books to them every night. That sounds cute