Genre :: Humor (59 books)

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  #522

  The Bottle Factory Outing

  by Beryl Bainbridge

  (2 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "The hearse stood outside the block of flats, waiting for the old lady."

  

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  #526

  The Twits

  by Roald Dahl

  (9 Reviews)

  20 Points

  "What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays."

  

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  #531

  Oblomov

  by Ivan Goncharov

  (3 Reviews)

  19 Points

  "Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorohovy Street, in one of the big houses that had almost as many inhabitants as a whole country town."

  

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  #572

  Money

  by Martin Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  11 Points

  "As my cab pulled of FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomohawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and slopped in fast right across our bows."

  

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  #573

  The Universal Baseball Association, inc.

  by Robert Coover

  (1 Review)

  11 Points

  "Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with..."

  

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  #586

  The Colour of Magic

  by Terry Pratchett

  (5 Reviews)

  8 Points

  "In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part..."

  

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  #604

  The Van

  by Roddy Doyle

  (1 Review)

  5 Points

  "Jimmy Rabbitte Sr. had the kitchen to himself. "

  

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  #605

  The Good Soldier Svejk

  by Jaroslav Hasek

  (2 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "'And so they've killed our Ferdinand', said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and..."

  

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  #616

  The Ginger Man

  by J. P. Donleavy

  (1 Review)

  2 Points

  

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