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**farmarrl** · 01-09-2006, 08:00 AM

Bull: Try Jerome.K.Jerome's 'three men in a Boat'.This is a very humorous book. This book is available online at the following site.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html
A lot of classics are available at this site.

James Thurber is another author whose short stories are very humorous. I have to mention here 'The secret life of Walter Mitty' (which i have been told has come out as a movie) and 'The day the bed fell on my dad'.
I was laughing in the middle of the night after reading this one and got scolded by my grandma 'pei madhiri rathiri enna sirippu vendi kidakkalai

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Regarding short stories one suggestion wld be to read the anthologies which come out and not soemthing like the complete short stories of so and so'. Because when you read the short stories collection you see a pattern in it and lose interest. I tried reading Somerset Maughm and lost interest towards the end of the book

Also try Mark Twain. He has written a book about the days when he was a pilot in the river missisippi (i hope i got the name right, it's been a long time since i read this one).

01-09-2006, 08:00 AM	#12
farmarrl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 513 Senior Member	Bull: Try Jerome.K.Jerome's 'three men in a Boat'.This is a very humorous book. This book is available online at the following site. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html A lot of classics are available at this site. James Thurber is another author whose short stories are very humorous. I have to mention here 'The secret life of Walter Mitty' (which i have been told has come out as a movie) and 'The day the bed fell on my dad'. I was laughing in the middle of the night after reading this one and got scolded by my grandma 'pei madhiri rathiri enna sirippu vendi kidakkalai' Regarding short stories one suggestion wld be to read the anthologies which come out and not soemthing like the complete short stories of so and so'. Because when you read the short stories collection you see a pattern in it and lose interest. I tried reading Somerset Maughm and lost interest towards the end of the book Also try Mark Twain. He has written a book about the days when he was a pilot in the river missisippi (i hope i got the name right, it's been a long time since i read this one).
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