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Laddar... Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Corenav Alan Coren
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. There are some pieces in here that I remembered fondly and which still resonate with me. Coren had a gifted sense not only for the absurdity of life but for how to show the absurdity even in everyday, taken-for-granted situations. Some pieces in here have, however, not aged well, and while the intro tries to "manage" some of his imperialist and racist attitudes, a couple of his commentaries on other nations. And some of the humor is too much predicated on punching down, for my taste. What saves the collection, however, is that Coren's target is just as often himself, and shining through all these pieces is his love of the variety and range and downright strangeness of the English language. ( ) This was a wonderful read, just after I'd finished Alan Plater's "Doggin' Around". Coren's wit and succinct choice of words had me laughing with delight. It's hard to pull out special favourites, though I have marked them in the book, but I'd recommend Idi Amin's car salesman, Richard III's armour and the search for the all-night chemis. This last one I see as a brilliant allegory for what happens if you concentrate on crap at the expense of what really matters - something companies and governments are extraordinarily good at doing. My recommendation once you've read it through once - make it a bathroom book! inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
A hilarious anthology of comic treasures written by Britain's "comic genius"--the former editor of Punch and beloved regular on BBC's Radio 4 (The Times). Alan Coren was one of contemporary Britain's most prolific humorists. Over his forty-year career, Coren wrote comic and satirical pieces for The New Yorker, The Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and Punch, and published more than twenty books including The Sanity Inspector, Golfing for Cats and The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin. This anthology draws together the best of Coren's previously published material as well as never-before-published autobiographical material. In these pages, you will find the queen at a loose end playing I-Spy, QPR fans arguing at the cheese counter, prank phone calls to Mao Tse-Tung, the Roman tax collector Glutinus Sinus dealing with the mud-caked Britons, Gatling guns, an Italian driving school, herons, hearing aids, hosepipe bans, talking parrots . . . Welcome to the wonderful world of the late, great Alan Coren! "Truly funny." --Stephen Fry, actor, producer, director, and author of The Hippopotamus Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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