Big Fish is a wonderful fairytale for grownups. A good one too. The book is amazing and completely impossible to put down. This book puts you in a good mood.

The language is quite simple and the book is easy to read. If one is a native to the southern USA and Alabama in particular one should pick up quite a bit of silliness and satire between the lines. Being from the south, however, is a bonus and not mandatory.

The great thing about this book is that even though the story is full of absurdities, it's quite easy to identify with the characters.Read more »»

Douglas Adams was one of the great masters of British humour. This is a post hume collection of small bits of his work. Most of it has been previously published in different magazines and other similar places, while the rest is unpublished work. It's amazing how Adams managed to describe even the most trivial and everyday events in such a laughable manner. Just his discription of all of the things you need to charge all of you other things makes this book worth while. I don't laugh out loud while reading very often, but this book sure toned my laughing muscles.Read more »»