Books like 'Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean'
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Incidences by Daniil Kharms
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis wonderfully inventive collection of stories presents the writing of Russian absurdist Daniil Kharms at its vibrant, perplexing best. The book is composed of short miniatures: strange, funny, dream-like fragments ? many of which the author called ?incidents? ? that tend to feature accidents, falling, chance violence and sudden death... -
![Bossy Grump Next Door by Ava Nichols]()
Bossy Grump Next Door by Ava Nichols
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI slept with the HOT grump next door… then learned he’s my new boss. Simon Chaucer is a handsome, arrogant, Billionaire CEO playboy, who’s also my cousin’s grumpy neighbor.While I’m house sitting for my cousin, Simon’s noisy home renovation disturbs my sleep.So, I show up at his house and give him a piece of my mind... -
![The Pitch Queen by Karin Gillespie]()
The Pitch Queen by Karin Gillespie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA hilarious send-up of the publishing business and a delight for readers who love books about books. If "Yellowface" and "Book Lovers" had a baby, it would be named "The Pitch Queen.". Claire Wyld, a literary agent, is the queen of the flashy pitch and is fighting to be the number one dealmaker in debut novels... -
![New Teeth by Simon Rich]()
New Teeth by Simon Rich
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a “comedic Godsend” by Conan O’Brien and “the Stephen King of comedy writing” by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet... -
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![The League of Unusual Denizens by Mark Cain]()
The League of Unusual Denizens by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only thing worse than the end of the universe is … Casual Day. Six denizens of Hell, one saint and a small blue alien join forces to stop the ultimate catastrophe: the destruction of the cosmos. That most of them are dead is of little consequence, for they possess great powers. Halos and horns, strength and sarcasm, courage and comedy, oh, and a management textbook: this team has them all... -
![Relativity by Ben Adams]()
Relativity by Ben Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarry Erickson believes he’s disproven Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. Dennis Drysdale is in love with a woman he knew from high school. Timothy Henderson wants to professionally play video games.When Harry accidentally burns his house down in a freak chicken Kiev accident, it sets events into motion that allow the three friends to pursue their individual dreams... -
![This Champagne Mojito Is the Last Thing I Own by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
This Champagne Mojito Is the Last Thing I Own by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe don't think we can improve on the author's own summary of his book: I am many things, roysh -- unbelievable babe magnet, red-hot lover, loyal kind of goy, best forward who never played for Ireland -- but there's a few things I was basically sure I'd never be, related to a jailbird for storters, or listening to the old dear getting randier than a goat in heat, or even a father, for that matter... -
![The Shelbourne Ultimatum by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
The Shelbourne Ultimatum by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter his brush with death Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby legend, award-winning author and lover of the ladeez - is back with a renewed lust for life - all thrillingly revealed in The Shelbourne UltimatumRoss wakes up from his coma to find a country that has changed beyond recognition. Shrewsbury Road has become a ghost estate. Marks and Spencer are selling microwavable coddle... -
![Distortions by Ann Beattie]()
Distortions by Ann Beattie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor... -
![Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard Powell]()
Pioneer, Go Home! by Richard Powell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPioneer, Go Home! relates the adventures of the Kwimpers, a motley clan of New Jersey Pineys who break down on the side of a southern highway project and decide to claim squatter s rights... -
![The Return of the Hippy by David Luddington]()
The Return of the Hippy by David Luddington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTony Ryan is bemused. He thought he understood the way the world worked, but now, as a sacrificial lamb of the credit crunch he finds himself drifting... drifting into the clutches of the ever resourceful Pete who could find the angle in a Fairy Liquid bubble... and into the arms of the enigmatic hippy girl, Astrid, who’s about to introduce Tony to rabbits, magic caves and the joys of mushrooms... -
![Super Pooper and Whizz Kid: Potty Power! by Eunice Moyle, Sabrina Moyle]()
Super Pooper and Whizz Kid: Potty Power! by Eunice Moyle, Sabrina Moyle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIntroducing two new potty pals kids and parents will adore, Super Pooper and Whizz Kid: Potty Power! is a humorous potty-training book with a hip sensibility and a playful take on a toddler’s most important rite of passage... -
![The Oh My God Delusion by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
The Oh My God Delusion by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThat risk assessor ex of Sorcha's turned out to be right - it really was the end of the world as we knew it ...See, I thought the porty was going to last forever. I certainly didn't believe the current economic blahdy blah was going to affect people like me... -
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![Howard Who? by Howard Waldrop]()
Howard Who? by Howard Waldrop
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R. R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection... -
![Overtaken by Alexei Sayle]()
Overtaken by Alexei Sayle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKelvin is a 33-year-old property developer living in a small Lancashire town. He has five close friends, all in well-paid jobs. Having bought their lovely houses cheaply in the early 1990s, they are free to spend money on their own pleasures - particularly clothes, meals and cars. Most of all, their life revolves around going to see things - art exhibitions, comedians, live music, plays.. -
![The Chance of a Lifetime by Kendra Smith]()
The Chance of a Lifetime by Kendra Smith
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new life down under? It's not as perfect as you'd think. Katie and Tom's marriage is in trouble. As is their bank account. So, when Tom tells Katie that they need to talk, she knows it must be about one of two things, and neither are good... -
![November by David Mamet]()
November by David Mamet
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDavid Mamet's Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief.It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent... -
![Lying to Children by Alex Shahla]()
Lying to Children by Alex Shahla
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA fictional father writes letters to his college-aged daughter and son remembering events, large and small, from their family’s past in the poignant and hilarious Lying to Children... -
![The Minor by Denis Fonvizin]()
The Minor by Denis Fonvizin
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWritten in a time where education was a defining difference between the rich and the poor this story is about the Prostakov family so ignorant and brutish that they survive only through the industry of their ill-treated serfs. The plot centers on the tyrannical mother's attempts to educate her spoiled and loutish son for the civil service and to marry him to an heiress... -
![The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing by Richard Brautigan]()
The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both his best friend and his first "real" girlfriend. "When I am rich and famous, Edna," he told her, "this will be your social security... -
![Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy by Bradley Sands]()
Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy by Bradley Sands
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBizarro humorist Bradley Sands returns with one of the strangest, most hilarious collections of the year.In Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, the pope gets sued, a headless man falls in love with a bowl of rice, and architects dismantle the earth. A war breaks out over greeting cards. A suicidal amputee tries to kill himself. William S... -
![Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA humorous story about a manipulative mother's attempts to arrange a marriage between her beautiful daughter and a wealthy elderly nobleman. The story provides an brilliant insight into the desperation, psychology, gossip, and rivalry of provincial merchants trying to better their position in life... -
![Suburgatory: Twisted Tales From Darkest Suburbia by Linda Erin Keenan]()
Suburgatory: Twisted Tales From Darkest Suburbia by Linda Erin Keenan
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSuburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother... -
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![مرگ در میزند by Woody Allen]()
مرگ در میزند by Woody Allen
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings«مرگ یک تصویر نمادین از نبودنه و همون طور که خودتون میدونین چیزی که نباشه نمیتونه وجود داشته باشه... بنابرین مرگ وجود نداره و فقط یک توهمه» وودی آلن نویسنده، بازیگر ، کارگردان و آهنگساز آمریکایی متولد 1935 نیویورک. در سال 1977 با فیلم آنی هال موفق به کسب اسکار کارگردانی و فیلمنامه شد. او تا پایان سال 2009، 42 فیلم ساخته که اکثر آن ها مورد استقبال گرم منتقدان و روشنفکران قرار گرفته است... -
![La profezia dell'armadillo by Zerocalcare]()
La profezia dell'armadillo by Zerocalcare
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStorie autobiografiche, dolciamare di Zerocalcare. Versione a colori curata da Makkox... -
![Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack by Nicholas Gurewitch]()
Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack by Nicholas Gurewitch
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe second (and likely final) collection of strips from the award-winning comic series The Perry Bible Fellowship. Spans the entirety of the strip's print run. Bonus features include lost strips, sketches, and a behind-the-scenes interview by Wondermark's David Malki. Also includes an introduction by Diablo Cody... -
![Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai by Jim Colucci]()
Golden Girls Forever: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai by Jim Colucci
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe complete, first-ever Golden Girls retrospective, packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes and never-before-revealed stories, more than two hundred color and black-and-white photos, commentary, and more... -
![Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud]()
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 21 ratings"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." — Kevin Kelly, Cool ToolsScott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design... -
![David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure by David Sedaris]()
David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure by David Sedaris
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf you were lucky enough to have caught a performance on David Sedaris's most recent sold-out, 34-city tour, you already know that David Sedaris Live For Your Listening Pleasure is a must-have album! If you didn't hear it live and in person, then you're in for a treat-hilarious brand-new recordings from performances in Denver, New York, Durham, LA, and Atlanta, in one convenient audiobook...
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