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• Graham Crackers : Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies by Graham Chapman, Jim Yoakum (Compiler). Ordinarily I limit my reviews to those books that I have actually read, but in this case I have chosen to make an exception to policy. Mr. Yoakum assures me that the book is quite good and that I may cheerfully stuff the aforementioned policy.
• The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words (Volume I) As it says on the back cover, "Almost certainly nominated for something somewhere". Can't remember the words to "The Lumberjack Song"? Pick up a copy of volume one! The complete scripts from the first twenty-three episodes of the Monty Python series from the BBC. There simply is no way to adequately describe such delights as flying sheep, owl-stretching time, policemen make wonderful friends, Hell's Grannies, and the death of Mary Queen of Scots. If you don't wet yourself reading this book, you're probably dead.
• The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus : All the Words (Volume II) "Winner of the 1989 PYTHON PRIZE for their own books". The mayhem continues in volume two which contains the original scripts from the second twenty-two episodes. The Fish-slapping dance, Spot the Looney, Buying an Ant, the Unexploded Scotsman, and International Wife-swapping. If you manage to survive the first book, this one will finish you off.

P.J. O'Rourke is truly one of a kind. He views the world in the same way that many folks do, however, he has a genius for translating his observations into words that are gritty, precise, acrid, eloquent, humorous, and poetic all at the same time. If you enjoyed "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot", always check the box on your tax return to contribute to the presidential election fund, or feel that the biggest threat that the U.S. military is likely to face concerns harassment or homosexuality, you will not enjoy anything that he has to say.

• Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
• All the Trouble in the World : P.J. discusses "The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty" as well as other "fashionable worries". His travels to Somalia, the Amazon, Rio, the former Yugoslavia, Haiti, Bangladesh, Thailand, Czechoslovakia, and Vietnam allow him to speak with some authority on the subjects.
• The Bachelor Home Companion : A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig."Endust doesn't actually 'end dust,' it just makes everything in your house stickier than it is already. However, it will turn the cat into a carpet sweeper." "How often does a house need to be cleaned anyway? As a general rule, once every girlfriend. After that, she can get to know the real you." If you have ever been a bachelor (or dated one), you will probably be able to relate.
• The Enemies List
• Give War a Chance : Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice and Alcohol-Free Beer
• Republican Party Reptile : Essays and Outrages
• Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Douglas Adams has written for the BBC (radio and television) and has had nearly as many odd jobs as I have. His books have sold over 8,000,000 copies worldwide and the original Hitchhiker's trilogy was made into a TV series, several computer games, tapes, radio shows, and probably homes for generations of birds. His oddly effective sense of timing and playful use of language is always delightful.

The Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy (Curiously enough, there are five).

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Our hero is Arthur Dent, the only survivor of Earth's untimely demise to make way for a hyperspace bypass, who travels throughout the universe searching for meaning and maybe a cup of tea. Arthur is accompanied by his friend Ford Prefect, a staff reporter for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a wholly remarkable book.
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. At the end of time, opposite the Big Bang Burger Bar, lies The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Arthur and Ford continue their quest accompanied by Trillian, the depressed android Marvin, and Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy.
• Life, the Universe and Everything. The discovery that the earth has been nothing more than a super-computer designed to find the answer to the ultimate question, leaves Arthur a bit depressed. The fact that the designers, common laboratory mice, were the most intelligent beings on earth doesn't help.
• So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. What the dolphins (the second most intelligent creatures) said as they were leaving Earth just before the Vogon Constructor Fleet... it all gets somewhat muddled here, but you get the point.
• Mostly Harmless. Round and round we go again, is this the end of the trilogy? Who knows?

The Adventures of Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective

• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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