My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face

7 best books like My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face (Michael Ian Black): The Thurber Carnival, The Horla, Shopgirl, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, I Drink for a Reason, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category, Exercises in Style

The Thurber Carnival

Author	James Thurber
ISBN	0060932872

"An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." --Philadelphia Inquirer

James Thurber’s unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades...

The Horla

Author	Guy de Maupassant
ISBN	0976140748

Our woe is upon us.

This chilling tale of one man’s descent into madness was published shortly before the author was institutionalized for insanity, and so The Horla has inevitably been seen as informed by Guy de Maupassant’s mental illness. While such speculation is murky, it is clear...

Shopgirl

Author	Steve Martin
ISBN	0786891076

Lonely, depressed, Vermont transplant Mirabelle Buttersfield, who sells expensive evening gloves nobody ever buys at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills and spends her evenings watching television with her two cats. She attempts to forge a relationship with middle-aged, womanizing, Seattle millionaire...

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Author	Tucker Max
ISBN	0806527285

The Book That Inspired The Movie My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally...

I Drink for a Reason

Author	David Cross
ISBN	0446579483

After a decade spent in isolation in the Ugandan jungles thinking about stuff, David Cross has written his first book. Known for roles on the small screen such as "never-nude" Tobias Funke on "Arrested Development "and the role of "David" in "Mr. Show With Bob And David, "as well as a hugely successful...

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category

Author	Dave Eggers
ISBN	1400076854

Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to begin with.

 

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Exercises in Style

Author	Raymond Queneau
ISBN	0811207897

Meta

From what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.

Snobbish

Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle...