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10 best books like Archy and Mehitabel (Don Marquis): Mad Amos, Pope Joan: Translated & Adapted from the Greek, Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language, Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, Greyhaven, The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg, The Adventures of Sammy Jay, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale

Mad Amos
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
ISBN0345393627
MOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE!

Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though not to his face. But when the world gets weird, there's...
Pope Joan: Translated & Adapted from the Greek
AuthorEmmanuel Rhoides
ISBN0720610656
In this brilliant adaptation of a novel by the 19th century Greek author Emmanuel Royidis, Lawrence Durrell traces the remarkable history of a young woman who travelled across Europe in the ninth century disguised as a monk, acquired great learning, and ruled over Christendom for two years as Pope...
Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language
AuthorRichard Lederer
Parts of this book were really fascinating. I liked reading about the different types of puns and other types of word play. As a dictionary of puns, it really works and has a lot of good examples. Sometimes there were too many examples and I really didn't want to read through them all. Some of the puns relied...
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0809590042
Τρίτο βιβλιαράκι του Τζέιμς Θέρμπερ που διαβάζω, μετά το πολύ ωραίο παραμύθι φαντασίας "Το άσπρο ελάφι" που διάβασα τον Μάρτιο του 2016 και το ιδιαίτερα ευχάριστο...
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN1402711018
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
Greyhaven
AuthorMarion Zimmer Bradley
ISBN0879978155
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395361729
For those who have read Peet's work "Zella, Zack and Zodiac" this is almost the same type of story and follows about the same plot but with a change of events as well as the predominant characters. Unlike the former book, this one doesn't follow a young character who takes over parenting but instead one...
The Adventures of Sammy Jay
AuthorThornton W. Burgess
ISBN0486449467
Sammy Jay thinks he's a very fine gentleman and is proud of his handsome blue coat and high cap. But Sammy often does things he shouldn't do — like stealing. Nobody likes to be told he's a thief — especially Sammy Jay! Much of the time, he just struts around, trying to look important when he thinks someone...
In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden
AuthorAudun Eckhoff
ISBN3775721010
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale
AuthorBill Watterson
ISBN0751505080
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.

Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.

I missed...
Apocalypse 2012: A Novel
AuthorRobert Gleason
ISBN0765322595
In ancient Mexico, the “End-Time Codex”--prophesizing the world’s end in 2012--is entombed. A young Aztec-Mayan slave tells us its story. 

Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king’s counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god-king, Quetzalcoatl,...
Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths
AuthorMardy Grothe
ISBN0060789484
For most of us, that perfect retort or witty reply often escapes us when we need it most, only to come to mind with perfect clarity when it's too late to be useful. The twentieth-century writer Heywood Broun described this all-too-common phenomenon when he wrote "Repartee is what we wish we'd said."

In...
The Superior Person's Book of Words
AuthorPeter Bowler
At first glance, Peter Bowler appears to represent the position I mocked in an earlier post, that command of a larger vocabulary is a means to social advancement, and can be acquired by reading a book full of fancy words. Fortunately, closer reading of his introduction to this short, amusing, book reveals...
The World of Chas Addams
AuthorCharles Addams
This is almost 400 pages of a cartoon from the sunday comics section of the paper. Each page has a picture and it may have a line underneath or not. Most of these are in black and white and about half of them are the Addams family characters. It is from his career; the 1930s to the 1970s.

Charles has...
Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students
AuthorAnders Henriksson
ISBN0761122745
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:
Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
Rasputin was a pheasant...
The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker
AuthorMatthew Diffee
ISBN1416933395
Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world create a bunch of cartoons every week that never see the light of day.

These rejects...
Collected Poems
AuthorE.E. Cummings
ISBN0151185638
Librarian note: pages were hand counted from table of contents to last poem.

This selection from Cummings' first six books of poetry - Tulips and Chimneys (1923), XLI (1925), & (And) (1925), Is 5 (1926), W (Viva) (1931), No Thanks (1935) - also contains some additional poems and an introduction.

Later...
Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit
AuthorLaura Penny
ISBN1400081041
“There is so much bullshit that one hardly knows where to begin...”

Taking no prisoners, author Laura Penny dissects—no, disembowels—the culture of globalized, supersized, consumerized bullshit, from Bush’s White House, with its “wallpaper of phony populist sloganeering,”...
Live and Learn and Pass It on: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered about Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
AuthorH. Jackson Brown Jr.
ISBN1558531564
کتابی عالی که تجربیات افراد مختلف را نه در قالب پند بلکه در قالب صحبت هایی دوستانه بیان می کند و مخاطب احساس همزاد پنداری با تمام گویند گان جملات این کتاب می...
Encyclopedia of Bad Taste
AuthorJane Stern
The subtitle of this heavenly concoction is: A celebration of American pop culture at its most joyfully outrageous.

This is not so much a book as an aspirin to banish gloom. Of course, America marches on and this book needs a major update to include such modern phenomena as Celebrity Rehab and...
Christmas At The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, And Art
AuthorThe New Yorker
ISBN1400061407
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing...
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