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Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths

10 best books like Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths (Mardy Grothe): Uppity Women of Medieval Times, Mad Amos, Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language, Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Apocalypse 2012: A Novel, The Superior Person's Book of Words

Uppity Women of Medieval Times
AuthorVicki León
ISBN1573240397
Vicki Leon, tireless explorer of the past, has gathered a treasure of information from sources written, etched, carved, and painted, to reconstruct the lives of wild women who wouldn't keep their places. From Queen Elizabeth to Joan of Arc, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Damia al-Kahina, this collection...
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...
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...
Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface
AuthorDavid Standish
ISBN0306813734
Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who also suggested that there might be life down there as well. Hollow Earth traces the many surprising, marvelous,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock
AuthorBill Peet
ISBN0395281598


“The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock” is a children’s book about self-confidence from the popular children’s author, Bill Peet. This book details Prewitt’s, a peacock, dilemma when his tail, at first was scrawny, becomes a horrifying looking tail over a matter of days! This children’s...
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell
AuthorVivian Cook
ISBN0743270991
"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson
Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.

Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration...
The Mammoth Book of Pirates: Over 25 True Tales of Devilry and Daring by the Most Infamous Pirates of All Time
AuthorJon E. Lewis
ISBN0786717297
Awash with skullduggery, malice, terror, and opportunism, here are 28 first-hand memoirs and contemporary reports of the most famous pirates to sail the seven seas, including Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, ‘Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonney, and Jean Lafitte. These range from the Golden Age of piracy,...
The Complete Costume History / Vollständige Kostümgeschichte / Le Costume Historique
AuthorAuguste Racinet
ISBN3822821934
Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique was the most wide-ranging and intelligent study of clothing ever published. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, the great work --...
'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies and Doctrines That Have Shaped Our World
AuthorArthur Goldwag
ISBN0307279073
Have you ever wondered about the difference between Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism and which influenced the other? Do you know where Post-modernism stops and Post-structuralism begins? Would you like to? From Platonism to New Historicism, humankind is constantly coming up with fresh schools...
Women of the Raj
AuthorMargaret MacMillan
ISBN0500278989
In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret...
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language
AuthorRuth Wajnryb
ISBN0743274342
Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century...
The Tomb of Tutankhamen
AuthorHoward Carter
ISBN0792268903
I really enjoyed this book. I love all things Egyptian, and the discovery of King Tut's tomb is a special favourite. I like that the book is written by Howard Carter. Yes, he does go into details about the many items they found in the tomb, and those sections might be a bit long-winded for some, but not to me....
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists
AuthorDavid Wallechinsky
ISBN0688031838
Lists. Dontcha love 'em? You've got an item, then another item, and then some more items! All the items are similar, but at the same time, hey, they're different. And they come in an order, which may or may not mean something. Wow.

I'm afraid I'm already running out of ideas for explaining why lists...
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