{"id":13028,"date":"2012-02-27T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T05:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=13028"},"modified":"2012-02-26T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:33:30","slug":"funny-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/02\/27\/funny-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This weekend on Twitter, I said something about blah blah blah, religion isn’t funny enough, and if I had a critique of the Bible is that it needs more jokes. And then I went on to recommend a particularly funny book about religion — Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal<\/strong>, by Christopher Moore.<\/p>\n

Moore is, of course, a funny motherfucker. I’ve seen him speak a few times at book signings. He took the people at one signing out for drinks. Another signing I went to as a component of my bachelor party (not kidding). He’s great. Very engaging. He will at times talk about animal penises. It’s just how he rolls.<\/p>\n

And all his books are off-the-charts funny, at least to me. I still remember reading Practical Demonkeeping<\/strong> in high school and thinking that he was the horror equivalent of Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n

I read him, Bradley Denton, Tim Sandlin, and I think — “This stuff is rolling in raw hilarity.”<\/p>\n

Thing is, you don’t read many funny novels.<\/p>\n

I hear the prevailing wisdom is, “It’s hard to sell a funny novel.”<\/p>\n

Though, I suspect what that really means is, “It’s hard to write<\/em> a funny novel.”<\/p>\n

So, two questions:<\/p>\n

First, what funny novels have you read? Why were they funny? Were they more<\/em> than just funny? Did they have good characters, good story, all the things you should have in a proper tale?<\/p>\n

Second, what’s funny? How do you write funny?<\/p>\n

That second one’s an open-ended and perhaps unanswerable question.<\/p>\n

But worth asking, just the same.<\/p>\n

Take a crack it it.<\/p>\n

See you in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, what funny novels have you read? Why were they funny? Were they more than just funny? Did they have good characters, good story, all the things you should have in a proper tale? Second, what’s funny? How do you write funny? That second one’s an open-ended and perhaps unanswerable question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-13028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-funny","8":"tag-writing","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-3o8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13028"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13033,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}