Book Humor

Literary laughs and other diversions.

	The 12 Dumbest Covers of American Comic Books We Could Find.
	Alternative Authors' Versions of Lord of the Rings.
	Amazon World -- A look at strange customer reviews on Amazon.com.
	American Literature Abuse Society -- Help for reading addicts.
	The "Art" of the Review -- Entertaining piece from National Review.
	Better Faster Be$t$eller$ -- Parodies of the NYT list.
	Big Little Books -- Lileks dissects the worst comic books ever.
	Book-A-Minute -- Ultra-condensed classics, SF/F, and children's books. It's fairly easy to get through two, or even three, in a minute.
	Book Burning: A True Christian Tradition -- Anti-Potter satire from Landover Baptist.
	The Books of Daniels -- Includes "Books of the Weak" (notes on thrift-store finds and other curious tomes) and Yeat's The Second Coming presented mostly in book covers.
	Brains4Zombies.com -- What would happen if Amazon.com were run by and for brain-eating zombies.
	Brick Tales -- Literature done up in Lego blocks.
	Brick Testament -- What the Bible might have been like if, on the first day, God said, "Let there be Lego."
	The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page -- Home of the famed "bad first sentence" contest.
	Children's Books for a Digital Age -- Cover pictures and summaries of Where the WIRED Things Are and a few more.
	Choose Your Own Damn Harry Potter Adventure.
	A Curse on Book Thieves -- The original anti-theft device.
	Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday? -- Text of a really odd book published in the Cat in the Hat's "I Can Read It" series in 1963.
	Fun With Innuendo -- There's a lot of sex in Harry Potter 5.
	The Great Menagerie: The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996 -- Online exhibit with lots of illustrations and animation.
	The Last Case of Encyclopedia Brown.
	Literary Bar Jokes -- We love series of jokes that build in succession.
	Lord of the Peeps -- Marshmallow version of Tolkein.
	Make Believe World of Harry Potter Drives Children to Edge of Insanity! -- Satire of anti-Potter hysteria.
	The Misadventures of Dick and Jane -- Audience participation Photoshop fun.
	Modern Humorist -- Includes a lot of literary satire.
	PowerPoint Anthology of Literature -- Much more efficient that reading Hamlet.
	The Puffies -- Awards for book blurb hype.
	Rare for a Reason -- A few parodies of non-fiction.
	Rejected Children's Books -- Dick-and-Jane style illustrations!
	Rejected Titles for the Next Harry Potter Book, part 2 and part 1 -- Don't forget to look at the runners-up, too.
	Shakespeare Insult Kit -- Choose 1 from Column A ...
	Top 10 Reasons Why Reading Is Better Than Dating.
	Top 12 Least Scary Stephen King Novels.
	Top 16 Other Rejected Children's Books.
	Treasury of Geriatric Erotica -- The books that took Florida retirement communities by storm!

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