Here is one place where I learned that humor could be good without being laugh-out-loud. ( )

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Racist tropes, misogynistic and petite bourgeois trite. ( )

fiction/short stories (with the occasional "autobiographical essay"). These are good stories but I find myself unable to follow the multiple characters very easily. I have to keep re-reading the pages, which takes the fun out of it. Still, I enjoyed revisiting "Walter Mitty" (since the Ben Stiller version comes out this Christmas). ( )

I have read this before—or at least parts of it—and was curious to revisit it. However, it only took a couple of the stories for me to realize that I no longer enjoy his style of writing. Instead of continuing to read it when I wasn't enjoying the style, I flipped to my favorite of Thurber's shorts (The Macbeth Murder Mystery) and re-read that, and then returned the volume to my library.