Terry Jones (yes, that one - before he was a Python he read medieval history at Cambridge) does a good job in his Medieval Lives of painting how the medieval period isn't one huge monolith of culture and situation. That it's a lot more than endlessly toiling peasants, knights in shining armor, and ...
Have you ever yelled abusive language at your computer when it wipes out what you have just been typing? Have you ever been frustrated by the dishwasher coming on by itself? Have you ever been woken out of a pleasant sleep by the smoke alarm beeping the beep of batte...
Have you ever yelled abusive language at your computer when it wipes out what you have just been typing? Have you ever been frustrated by the dishwasher coming on by itself? Have you ever been woken out of a pleasant sleep by the smoke alarm beeping the beep of batte...
Ingredients: 1 Crazy British neighborhood with stock characters (including Hitler lookalike) 1 Head of the Russian Mafia with a great deal of hubris 1 would be concert pianist who works as hit man 1 Head of Mafia’s wife ...
This collection of stories written by one of the members of Monty Python is very clever, very funny, and very surprising. They were written for his daughter and as the introduction points out, make good aloud reading Some of the stories end abruptly and the happy ending isn’t happy....
Starship Titanic is a sort of spin off of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It was a collaboration done between Douglas Adams and Terry Jones of Monty Python. Douglas Adams did the computer game and Terry Jones wrote the novel. It's not the first time I've read this book, but I found it j...
The story of a victorian young lady's adventures with fairies. She collects impressions of the fairies in her diary. Amusing but very slight, really not for children. I like how the handwriting develops over time.
every great novelist, one might say, earns the right to do a memoirish/personal philosophy non-fiction piece, and if that worked spectacularly for J.G. Ballard, a b-list scribbler of apocalyptic sci-fi pieces until his thinly-disguised autobiographical [b:Empire of the Sun|56674|Empire of the Sun|J....
what a thoroughly odd book! some stories were amusing, others I could see that young kids would love them & others I just didn't get at all. some I no idea what it was meant to be telling me, while others had a great message behind them (man over-fishing the oceans, man interfering with animals migr...
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