If you’re one of those people who knows you should take the time to read the classics but just don’t have the time to spare, this could be the book for you. Seventy-five of the greatest works of Western literature have been tweaked, tightened and given the Twitter treatment, retold in snippets of no more […]
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There’s always time in life for a bit of a giggle and cartoonist Mark Lynch has a knack for creating delightfully silly cartoons to tickle the funny bone. Lynch was the former editorial cartoonist for the Australian but his cartoon talents don’t end there. In fact, his first love is the cartoon genre known as
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It’s been 30 years since we were lucky enough to have a new Monty Python book by all the surviving Python crew so this one is is well worth having for the discerning Python fan. The book covers the live stage show that toured in the 1970s and 80s, including the Hollywood Bowl show. There
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Yes, this is it, the latest instalment in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series: part six of Douglas Adams’ trilogy in four parts. Sadly, Adams died before he was able to write the sixth book himself, although he once said he expected he would write a sixth because “five seems to be a wrong
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If you’re a regular reader of The Southland Times, I’m sure you’re also a regular reader of the columns of the very talented Joe Bennett. Young Mr Bennett is, without doubt, one of the funniest to grace our pages and he never fails to entertain with his weekly offerings. In fact, I’m always amazed that
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The “overheard” stable of websites have provided some funny moments on the web, with snippets of overheard conversations often taken totally out of context and posted online. It started out as Overheard in New York and has snowballed from there, with more sites added to that one and other sites copying the concept. Now, there’s
Jeremy Clarkson is a bloke who is probably the envy of every other bloke out there (and a lot of bloke-esses, too, I would imagine): he gets to drive around in cool cars, demolish caravans and take part in ridiculous races that keep us entertained. And he gets paid for it. This book, which is
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After 11 years and 11 collections of columns, Joe Bennett is back with another sampling of just what it is that makes him so good. In Alive and Kicking, New Zealand’s favourite columnist takes a shot at everything from Beckham-mania to golf umbrellas, from Hillary Clinton to dying pets. And, as always, Bennett manages to
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We all have obsessions: for some of us it’s the quite sensible compulsion to buy designer handbags, for others it’s collecting stamps or not stepping on cracks on the footpath. This little book takes a humorous look at the weird obsessions of some very weird people. Joseph Pujol is a prime example. Mr Pujol was
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If you’ve spent any time at all on the internet, you’ve probably come across some of those cute little stickmen jokes and had a wee giggle. But did you know that there are literally hundreds of the little suckers? Peter Vegan, the artistic genius behind the comic line-drawings, has already released a couple of books
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