Humour Books > R Humour Books

Advantages: Dark humour
Disadvantages: Not for the really young

Andy Riley is a man of amazing imagination with a cruel twist. However with four best-selling books under his belt all laced with black humour (something serious given a funny twist) he must be doing something right. Long ago my fiancee nicknamed me bunny. A cute and cuddly name which seemed to stick. I already own two of his books 'The book of bunny suicides' and 'Great lies to tell small kids' so when I passed 'Return of the bunny suicides' with ...
...of the book is simple. For a reason which is never made clear (maybe they ran out of carrots) bunnies are having a serious crisis. The bunny suicide hotline has failed them and they are all on the journey to the next life. Sounds cruel right? Yet for some reason which is endearing to Andy he manages to make you smile, giggle or burst into hysterics at these strange little creatures. The cover of the book is green and glossed over to prevent smalls ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining
Disadvantages: Too quirky

...is a journalist who wrote the brilliantly funny “Them”, subtitled “Adventures With Extremists”, a hilarious account of meetings with various cranks and extremists such as the Ku Klux Klan, David Icke and more. Not forgetting the “Bilderberg” conspiracy postulating that a group of powerful men are running the world (Peter Mandelson apparently attends their meetings!). With this pedigree and such an attention-grabbing name it was impossible to resist ...
...I saw it. The title comes from a secret experiment where military guys tried to stare goats to death. Apparently one goat was taken ill but the chap who succeeded in doing this also ended up with a heart problem. Make of that what you will. Was the goat also trying to harm the guy or did the “energy” rebound from him??? The book is concerned with a manual known as the “First Earth Battalion Manual” written by an ex-Vietnam vet who decided that ... Read review

Advantages: hilarious
Disadvantages: none

...*Can he buy a used air stewardess uniform for his wife to wear in order to spice up their sex life? *Can the pilot stop making announcements about what can be seen out of a certain side of the plane (ie. "Those on the left side will be able to see Spain") as it causes problems with the people on the side of the plane who can't see it? Sometimes it isn't even the original query which is the funniest part, but the follow-up. It is as if Ravenscroft ...
...can, to see how long they will continue to take his request seriously, and when they will finally give up and not bother to reply. At times this takes quite some time, which I suppose says a lot for the customer service industry! One of his pranks in particular went on for quite a while as he wrote a letter to an airline saying he was a 42 stone man and he wanted to know whether or not there would be any seats which would accommodate him. The airline ... Read review

Advantages: Funny and clever
Disadvantages: Could turn you into a Grumpy old Man or Woman

...and chuckling throughout, David Quantick`s Grumpy Old Men is just such a book. It seems that the majority of modern life’s obstacles annoy the grumpy old man, from pointless speed bumps to call centres in Kazakhstan; they have all been designed purely to irk and irritate. Take cats for example, the grumpy old man insists that if cats could open tins of catfood themselves they would not need humans and would like to push them all into an active volcano. ...
...Many other animals cause the grumpy old man to vent his spleen; he describes city pigeons as “airborne sewers with guano so toxic it will burn through the paintwork on your car like bird’s arse napalm” while wasps are so accurately described as “a Spivey stripy stingy cross between mosquitoes and bees which only secured their passage on Noah’s ark by stinging to death the unicorns and nicking their tickets”. “Magicians start with a kit when they’re ... Read review

Advantages: humour on walls
Disadvantages: rarely gross

...known under the generic term Graffiti - more or less gifted artists spray their "Pieces" with aerosol cans on every even surface they can find - partly artistically valuable, partly ordinary simple craving for the attention of any bypasser. The kick lies therein to "work" mostly at night, as getting caught draws severe consequences according to each countrys laws . I would like to present here a special form of "wall paintings", whose subtle messages ...
...intelligently, humorously and philosophically transmitted (and far less spoiling the environment). The creators remain of course anonymous, whose "public relations work" gets in return proper attention as their artwork with pencil, ballpoint pens, felt-tip pen or chalk is very accessible, f.e. at toilet walls, in railroad tunnels, waiting-rooms, tube-trains or on simple park banks: it deals around those more or less ingenious sayings, their spice ... Read review