Meet Walter Mitty. He's a Husband. He's a Captain of a Navy ship He's a toughest man on the trial He's the man who can a woman from distress and is a hero to all man kind. He's also worrying his wife, his co-workers, his boss and his shrink. Walter Mitty has dreams. Dreams of being a her...
An anthology of 22 short comedic pieces, I picked this up on impulse at a UBS, because I'd never read any of the authors before (correction: I've read Wodehouse) and there were more than a couple names here that I'd often felt like I should have read, but hadn't; I was afraid they'd be weighty and, ...
An odd little story full of wordplay. What happens when the letter O is banned? Chas! Cnfusin!Much of the text has a singsong quality--but not all of it. A little uneven. I would actually love to see this performed on stage. It could make a great high school performance, as it would be quite short ...
Deducted 1/2 star for being too short. Otherwise an excellent example of midcentury, midwestern humor excellently written. This slim volumes reads as a collection of short essays about the early part of Thurber's life and his eccentric family. I won't go so far as to say they are laugh-out-loud ...
I find it difficult to categorize the genre which will fully describe The Thurber Carnival. It is humor with a generous helping of autobiography sprinkled with cartoons. There's short stories such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which I mentioned previously. There are also twists on fairytales (o...
I downloaded this free audiobook from audible and decided to finally take the time to listen to it during my walk today. I was not impressed. The narration was great and I thought that Ben Stiller did a fantastic job but I found the story lacking. I really cannot believe that this is a well loved...
I'm not sure why I put this one off so long. Well, I'll admit the little blurb on the back annoyed me a tad: How can anyone describe this book? It isn't a parable, a fairy story or a poem, but rather a mixture of all three. It is beautiful and it is comic. It is philosophical and it is cheery. Wh...
written by James Thurber, illustrated by Marc Simont I haven't read the original, so I have nothing to compare this one to. I enjoyed the story and Simont's watercolor illustrations very much though. At first I thought it was strange that anyone would update a Caldecott winner (unless there was so...
Got this free with Audible, narrated by Ben Stiller.Extremly short book, only 15 minuites in length, but it's still wonderful that I was given this free without even having to sign up. I didn't realise that you could get offered deals like this from amazon/audible, it's really wonderful that they do...
I enjoy whimsy and fairy tales, but The 13 Clocks falls short in its attempt to blend the two. I first learned of it in a discussion of Peter Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, when it was reported as similar in style and tone. Unfortunately, I found it a distinctly inferior tale, the vending machine versio...
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