18 books like Thurber's dogs
How to live with a neurotic dog
Faced with the complications and contradictons of modern society, today's dog becomes a neurotic. At every turn, his prime life forces—the need to eat and sleep—are thwarted. Instinct pushes him towards satisfying this hunger; sleep is necessary to infuse him with sufficient strength to get up and eat several times a day. (The average dog may require about 24 hours rest a day.) But environmental…
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The Far Side Gallery 5
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from January 1, 1980, to January 1, 1995. Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for…
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A fable for critics
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Up Front
*Up Front* is one of the most famous books to emerge from the Second World War, a classic in every sense of the word. In his drawings of the infantry dog-faces Willie and Joe, done while he himself fought in campaigns in Sicily and Italy, Mauldin created the immortal archetypes of the American fighting man. He knew, as one who had been there himself on the front lines and in the slit trenches,…
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Dilbert
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Shi shuo xin yu
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Metropolitan Life
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Gentle craft
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A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall
A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall
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Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters, 1780
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The theory & practice of gamesmanship
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The book of snobs
Thackeray contributed regularly to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine and The Times. His writings attracted first attention in Punch, where he satirized English snobbery. These sketches reappeared in 1848 as The Book of Snobs, stating in it that "he who meanly admires mean things is a Snob."
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Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
For thousands of years, women have asked themselves: What is the deal with guys, anyway? What are they thinking? The answer, of course, is: virtually nothing.
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Westward ha!
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Anecdotes médicales; bons mots, pensées et maximes, chansons, épigrammes, etc
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How to Fail in Literature (Reprint)
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The Peter principle
The Peter Principle is a book that takes a humorous look at productivity. In a nutshell the Peter Principle says that within any hierarchi, if you stay there long enough, you will eventually be promoted to you level of incompetence. I loved that the last chapters tell you how you can avoid being promoted to that level without being fired.
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Das NEINhorn
Im Herzwald kommt ein kleines, schnickeldischnuckeliges Einhorn zur Welt. Aber obwohl alle ganz lilalieb zu ihm sind und es ständig mit gezuckertem Glücksklee füttern, benimmt sich das Tierchen ganz und gar nicht einhornmäßig. Es sagt einfach immer Nein, sodass seine Familie es bald nur noch NEINhorn nennt.
Eines Tages bricht das NEINhorn aus seiner Zuckerwattewelt aus. Es trifft einen…
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