Also have this book. Must read next.

anyone know the best (easiest+free) method for converting .epub books to a format that will work on my kindle paperwhite?

thanks

Has anyone read a good comedy fiction book? not catch-22 or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm looking for a book that will produce a big belly laugh.

Suttree, if you want to read a novel that has many funny parts. But do you mean you want a book that's actually written to be a pure comedy?

A Confederacy of Dunces? Though belly laughs are highly subjective...

A book written to be pure comedy.

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I have added "A Confederacy of Dunces" to my book wish list.

Thanks, I had considered that one in the past but the reviews scared me away.

Maybe something about Howard Hughes should be next on my LA list.

dunno what format works with the paperwhite but this site lets you convert from/to all kinds of diff formats.

http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub

cool, thx

If you had to do it over again would you read the WoT series?

Anyone familiar with Gödel's incompleteness theorem? No local library has his original paper afaik and I don't know what to consult

The book you want is "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

The program you want is called "Calibre".

I *think* that there is a relatively long, if non-technical, outline of the argument in one of roger penrose's books. I've definitely read one, and I'm pretty sure it was in a book of that genre, and I've not read that many of them. Wiki might help although it's a bit hit and miss on maths/physics I've found,

It's a long long time since I thought about it, but iirc, it is a bit like Russell's set of all sets which aren't a member of themselves, or a stopping/non stopping Turing machines sort of thing - you construct the space of all provable statements within a given logical system, and then construct a sort of meta-statement which is demonstrably well formed and true, but equally is demonstrably outside the space of provable statements, and then proof by contradiction shazaam!

i thougght lamb: the gospel according to biff was hilarious

Christopher Moore is awesome.
a dirty job is one of my favs.

mark haskell smith is also phenomenal and pretty funny.
check out baked.

"Lamb" was legit hilarious.

This is a fairly strange admission but I'm about to finish a 500+ page harry potter fan fiction called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality for the second time in 6 months. I watched a debate the author took part in a few months ago and found this story through google. I wasn't expecting to read more than the first few pages but I found it just as engrossing as I found the originals as a kid, even reading it for the second time has kept me up well past my bedtime most nights this week. The book has it's own subreddit with 5k subscribers (I don't use reddit so I don't know how common this is but it seemed pretty impressive to me), it's own podcast run by a fan and free mobi epub and pdf versions on the website.

Not sure what country you are in, but try an interlibrary loan. In Canada, any public library can get you anything from any library in North America.

How much Wallace have you read? I would not start with The Broom of the System. It is interesting, but far from the genius of many of his other works, and, if you are to believe the author, ultimately a failure. If you haven't read anything, I would say to start with A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again or Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.

Calibre. Its an awesome program and completely free

I wouldn't reread it if that's what you're asking. Several of the books are really good but the o/a length of the series and the slowness of the middle 4-5 books would keep me from reading it again.

If I didn't know anything about it I would read it.
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Calibre is awesome for converting books.

Just finished Wolf Hall

630 odd pages

I think if you like historical novels - you will definitely like this. It is not hugely dramatic - there are no real twists - it just gives the ins and outs of Henry VIII court in a detailed fashion through the rise of Thomas Cromwell. There were parts where I just thought it was taking too long, there were also parts which could have been fleshed out.
I do not think you need to know or not know about Henry VIII or late medieval England to "get" or "enjoy" this - as it is an interesting account on the exercise of power and influence.

Neither. How about Terry Pratchett?

I would not start with Brief Interviews over Broom of the System. JMHO.