en-US Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:35:35 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 4988207 How to be an Alien, the classic vade mecum for foreigners in Britain. The book became required reading for the alien, and an indispensable aid to self-understanding for the native.

It is a heavy responsibility to be acknowledged as the leading expert on a subject as tricky as the British. For one thing, even they can change a good deal in thirty years. In acknowledgement of this, Mr Mikes has felt bound to write a new guide.

At the heart of the book are the important sections on How to Lose an Empire, Become a Colony, and Stop Being an Island. All these themes are brand new. Others are familiar, but required new treatment. Sex could no longer be despatched in the shortest chapter known to literature (ten words) but called for at least a page (Britons whose self-confidence is wobbly had better skip it). The art of getting lost in London has become infinitely more complex than it was, and what is happening to the language is hair-raising. But the native will find that although his self-esteem takes some hard knocks, he ends in a glow of self-congratulation. It seems that when Great Britain finally becomes a desert island it will have its Robinson Crusoe in the shape of George Mikes.

Amid all the changes two things remain the same: Nicholas Bentley is still the perfect illustrator for George Mikes's wit, and a special chemistry still exists between Mikes and his adopted country. The chemistry produced the most famous of all his works, and now it has produced the book to rival it.]]> 87 George Mikes 0233969322 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.78 1977
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]]> 948085 88 George Mikes 0140025146 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.86 1946
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When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person.

BUT.

That kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual twat is much more the real me. Sorry to boast, but I am a champion twat.

In The Twat Files I will tell you about all the times I've been a total and utter twat. The moments where I've misunderstood stuff and messed up. In my life these have been key

Mistakes tell us about ourselves.
Mistakes tell us about others.
Mistakes are hilarious.
Mistakes expose our flaws.
Mistakes show us ourselves honestly.
Mistakes are gloriously human.

My hope is that these stories might fire up yer engines to remind you of just what a massive twat you also are.

Let's celebrate and revel in this most delightful of traits together.

That would be perfectly twatty.]]> 363 Dawn French 1405947284 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.82
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Ěý±Ő±Ő> 334 Patrice A. Oppliger 3030372146 Kissesjung 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 39291659 A laugh-out-loud, adults-only bedtime story for parents familiar with the age-old struggle of putting their kids to bed

“Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.�

Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night.

Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.]]> 17 Adam Mansbach 1453227601 Kissesjung 0 to-read 4.31 2011
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]]> 13109626 Madeline is for little monsters everywhere.

Frankenstein is the scariest of all the monsters in Miss Devel's castle. He can frighten anything--animals, parents, even rocks. Until one night, Miss Devel wakes up and runs downstairs to find that Frankenstein has lost his head!]]> 48 Rick Walton 0312553668 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.79 2012
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]]> 14060248 224 Fanny Merkin 0306822008 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.30 2012
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]]> 15348 149 The Harvard Lampoon 0451452615 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.20 1969
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]]> 6638377 About three things I was absolutely certain.
First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe.
Second, there was a vampire part of him--which I assumed was wildly out of his control--that wanted me dead.
And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.

And thus Belle Goose falls in love with the mysterious and sparkly Edwart Mullen in the Harvard Lampoon’s hilarious send-up of Twilight.

Pale and klutzy, Belle arrives in Switchblade, Oregon looking for adventure, or at least an undead classmate. She soon discovers Edwart, a super-hot computer nerd with zero interest in girls. After witnessing a number of strange events–Edwart leaves his tater tots untouched at lunch! Edwart saves her from a flying snowball!–Belle has a dramatic revelation: Edwart is a vampire. But how can she convince Edwart to bite her and transform her into his eternal bride, especially when he seems to find girls so repulsive?

Complete with romance, danger, insufficient parental guardianship, creepy stalker-like behavior, and a vampire prom, Nightlight is the uproarious tale of a vampire-obsessed girl, looking for love in all the wrong places.]]> 154 The Harvard Lampoon 0307476103 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.14 2009
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]]> 3194431 "Goodnight tomb. Goodnight goon. Goodnight Martians taking over the moon."

It's bedtime in the cold gray tomb with a black lagoon, and two slimy claws, and a couple of jaws, and a skull and a shoe and a pot full of goo. But as a little werewolf settles down, in comes the Goon determined at all costs to run amok and not let any monster have his rest.

A beloved classic gets a kind-hearted send up in this utterly monsterized parody; energetic art and a hilarious text will have kids begging to read this again and again.]]> 32 Michael Rex 0399245340 Kissesjung 0 to-read 4.08 2008
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All will be revealed inside this one-off publication, him hiding inside the pages of a book, simply because he's too scared to get up on stage and say anything out loud. A memoir of insightful topics, passionate rants and things that puzzle him on a daily basis, which confusingly leads him to believe he's not worthy of your laughter at all. Only available in paperback (with pictures inside the book too) Jimmy talks about his writing career, a caravan, even astrology, randomly talking everything a stand-up comedian would talk about in one of their own sell out shows. Question is � Why is Jimmy considered a comedian gone wrong?

We've built him up, we've laid the path, so get ready for some of his craziness, never seen in one of his books until now. This is it, Jimmy Tudeski in all his glory, ready to entertain and give you... Fu$king hell, talking about yourself in third person and selling yourself on the back of a book is actually harder than writing the inside part for you!]]> 452 Jimmy Tudeski Kissesjung 0 to-read 4.00
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Acclaimed cartoonist and fellow X-Phile Jeffrey Brown revisits classic X-Files episodes for weird, bizarre, and funny takes on both fan favorite cases and overlooked gems. He'll rejoin Mulder and Scully as they investigate the unexplained incidents, paranormal events, and extraterrestrial encounters, and show that not only is the truth out there, the humor is as well.

The eXtra Files will ask—and even attempt to answer—questions about Mulder and Scully's cases and their history, providing a fresh and funny take on both that will be accessible to casual fans but also engaging for X-Philes.]]> 64 Jeffrey Brown 1368084311 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.60 2023
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]]> 33457 243 Christopher Moore 0060735422 Kissesjung 0 to-read 3.84 1992
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