made me cackle as I read (fiction)

nessreader: but why NOT get married just for the presents?

nessreader: the bit in the morgue with B goading the coroner

nessreader: book equivalent of Shakespeare in Love

nessreader: mr pooter as cro-magnon

nessreader: rips the piss mercilessly out of reverence for "land of saints and scholars"

nessreader: beleaguered travel agent pestered to turn PI by her aunt. Stoner is adorable; her aunt and best friend are just the right level of crazy

nessreader: later books gradually get issue-ier - this is a con job space opera romp with an enchantingly charismatic hero

nessreader: 1st pratchett where I fell in love with discworld - jokes about fairy tales and folklore

nessreader: surreal and v French - would have dumped on basis of 1st chapter in pov racist policeman if had not been warned by previous reader.

nessreader: a sublimely bad novelist with an ego the size of Belgium - her life. sad at the end mind you

nessreader: weird desert-dry short stories

nessreader: anti war space opera, 1960sish I think. consistently amusing rather than hilarious