I like reading funny stuff. Though it sounds trite and 'undifferent', I like Wodehouse a lot and can keep re-reading his stuff.

It's quite some time since I read any fiction. The last book I read was Dan Brown's DaVinci code. Of course it should have been titled The Leonardo Code as anyone who has been a quizzer knows that Da Vinci is really not a last name and it just indicates that Leonardo was from the town of Vinci.

That was a fun read and I find it even more amusing that a lot of Christians have got their knickers in a twist over what is at the end of the day a work of fiction. At least they didn't issue a fatwa against him!

Of current authors I favour Carl Hiaasen. If your only acquaintance with Hiaasen is by virtue of having seen

Strip Tease you cannot have any idea of how funny a writer he really is. Try the book Skin Tight- it is a scream.

Here is a link to the Official Carl Hiaasen page

I have read all his stuff and am waiting for the next but if it is like Lucky You, I don't want to read it. Of course I won't know till I read it, will I?

A fellow Floridian, Dave Barry writes some of the funniest newspaper columns. His site is Dave Barry's Official site Sadly the local newspaper that I get, the Greensboro News and Record seems to have stopped carrying his columns- the one thing I look forward to on Sunday (especially now that football is almost at an end) is now gone

For the most part I tend to look at the book review pages in the newspapers or wherever and try to read those. Especially as here in the US you can get these fairly easily from the local library Which, ridiculous as it sounds, happens to be one of the reasons that I came here

I have also tried audio books and 'read' Bridget Jones's Diary. A rather comic account of a year in the life of this 30 something London woman who is desperate to settle down. I think as diaries go, Adrian Mole's are by far the better ones even the ones where he is not aged 13 and 3/4. After that I listened to Unnatural Causes by PD James but that was a difficult one as I kept losing track of characters and had no way to 'flip' back and on more than one occasion almost had an accident