Humor. The essence of many lives and careers, brought into focus through comedy. Being funny. It is a way many choose to relax, or make things better. Got fired from your job? Make a funny joke. Cat just died? Well, screw that, I feel like laughing, and so should you.
Why am I speaking of humor? What devil witchcraft has brought that word into my sacred blog? Well, I am reading a wonderful book by the name of Experience, by Martin Amis. In this book, subtle laughs are behind each page, and no story is without a chuckle. Even on the back does it say; "Experience is the only book I have ever read, that keeps me laughing all the way through." I almost entirely agree, except I am not one to laugh out loud at most anything, let alone a book. Still, high praise indeed.
It started to make me think about what makes a book good? I have read so many books, but all the ones that stand out have no comedy in them. They all are serious, and sullen, and sometimes witty, but never plain funny. As easy as it is to make a comedy movie, a comedy book seems to be impossible. Classics do not include those books about Butts, they came from Uranus or something. The Classics are Charles Dickens, Shakespeare and Tolstoy. No pure comedy.
The world needs funny books.
Sometimes classics are pure commedy. Shakespeare wrote comedies. Dickens could be quite funny. But I do agree that sometimes comedies can be hard to, well, take seriously. Maybe when you laugh at something you just can't think it's really deep and meaningful, even if it is.
ReplyDeleteYou are definitely right. The world needs more funny books, and they need them soon. Great response. Again, only problem is that it's not about a specific book. I personally don't think that's bad at all but hopefully she wont take off your grade for it.
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