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Helen Walsh: erotic reading

Helen Walsh read from one of her books in public "only once, at this erotic reading in the south of England in this...

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Author uses Adwords to choose his book's title

In Super Crunchers, Yale law and management professor Ian Ayres explains how human intuition and flair are easily beaten...

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Jack

Despite Easy Rider`s critical accolades and commercial success, bad blood boiled for years between Dennis Hopper...

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Heroic Failure

To mark the tenth anniversary of The Book of Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile, founder of the "Not Terribly Good Club...

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Jimmy Carter: Hornblower

Jimmy Carter delivered a memorable oration at the funeral of former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee...

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Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck`s first wife (Carol) found the title for his most famous book in Julia Ward Howe`s "The Battle Hymn of...

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Seuss Slogan

Though he married twice, Dr. Seuss never had any children of his own. His slogan? "You have `em, I`ll amuse...

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Making a Mountain From a Molehill?

The critic Alexander Woollcott was famed for his ample girth. In the midst of a heated argument, he once asked Howard...

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Library of Alexandria

After conquering the city of Alexandria in 642, `Omar`s general `Amr Ibn Al-as, sent a messenger to ask `Omar how he...

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Larry Page unveils his book scanner

What sets Google apart, CEO Eric Schmidt once observed, is that, while people like him always assumed that “Google would be...

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