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	The Road to Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Road to Mars is a 1999 science fiction comedy novel by Eric Idle.
		This novel is set some time in the future when the solar system has been colonised, and it follows two stand-up comedians on an interplanetary comedy circuit.
		Their robot seeks to understand the nature of comedy and human laughter; through this character Idle is perhaps examining his own relation to comedy as a former member of Monty Python.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Road_to_Mars (127 words)

	The Reading Experience: James Wood
		The comedy of what I want to call "irresponsibility" or unreliability is a kind of subset of the comedy of forgiveness; and although it has its roots in Shakespearean comedy (especially soliloquy), it seems to me the wonderful creation of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel.
		This comedy, or tragicomedy, of the modern novel replaces the knowable with the unknowable, transparency with unreliability, and this is surely in direct proportion to the growth of characters' fictive inner lives.
		It is the comedy of Catch-22, of Gravity's Rainbow, of Mulligan Stew, and of the fiction of Donald Barthelme, Robert Coover, and Stanley Elkin.
	noggs.typepad.com /the_reading_experience/2004/10/james_wood.html (3164 words)

	From stand up comedy to crime fiction
		The tone, style, content...pretty much everything about my debut novel Sleepyhead, came as something of a shock to those who know me as a stand-up comedian.
		What is surprising however, is that writing a dark and disturbing crime novel and performing stand-up comedy are not as different as one might suppose.
		Two years ago, at the same time that I was writing the beginning of what would eventually become Sleepyhead, I began what would hopefully be a funny crime novel set in my home town of Birmingham.
	www.markbillingham.com /so_this.html (1140 words)

	The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams.
		The novel's title is a phrase which appeared in Adams's earlier novel Life, The Universe and Everything, but the novels are not otherwise related.
		While often billed as comedy, it frequently features humour built around strange situations and repeated themes, one connection it has, rather unsurprisingly, with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in its many incarnations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Long_Dark_Teatime_of_the_Soul (465 words)

	Pride and Prejudice (2003) - Page 2
		Black admits to some concern over fans of the novel feeling that too many liberties have been taken with the story, but says he is not too worried.
		The film is based -- loosely -- on Jane Austen's 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice." The original novel was about a matron going to extreme lengths to marry off her five daughters and ensure a financially secure future for herself.
		The phrase "a latter-day comedy" is not capitalized in the logo, but it is capitalized in the title bar of the web page.
	www.ldsfilm.com /Pride/PrideAndPrejudice2.html (3421 words)

	Longmire does Romance Novels - Your Submissions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You're Romance Novel covers became a hit here in Colorado Springs because one of the local stations does a website of the day...and yours was one of them.
		Open any novel in the supermarket, flip to a section that has almost no dialogue, and you'll find one of the 2- to 3-page descriptions of very hot sex.
		As a female, I think the vast majority of romance novels are total garbage that are as formulaic as their covers.
	www.worldoflongmire.com /features/romance_novels/readers_covers.htm (1274 words)

	National Novel Writing Month - Forums - Other Genres - Comedy/Satire
		I'm doing a comedy novel, but it remains to be seen how funny it will be.
		In my novel, the characters have to spend the week in a 'haunted' house without any electricity, and the plot revolves around them trying entertain themselves for a week.
		My novel will (hopefully) be about three women, who, looking for money, decide that they can make a fortune selling Girl Scout Cookies, until they discover what a hellish nightmare Girl Scouts is (at least, for 40-something women).
	www.nanowrimo.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=8527 (1665 words)

	Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
		It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet (whose liveliness and quick wit have often attracted readers) and the haughty Darcy.
		It is also possible to find the individual sentences in the text of all six Jane Austen novels that contain a search string, or to search all the HTML pages in this Jane Austen info page site.
		The origin of the phrase "Pride and Prejudice" is the fifth volume of Fanny Burney's 1782 novel
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/pridprej.html (1583 words)

	FRANCO MORETTI - GRAPHS, MAPS, TREES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That figure 2 shows a first ‘rise’ (when the novel becomes a necessity of life), and then a second (the shift from the past to the present), and then a third (the multiplication of market niches), seems to me a good account of the data, but is certainly far from inevitable.
		For most literary historians, I mean, there is a categorical difference between ‘the novel’ and the various ‘novelistic (sub)genres’: the novel is, so to speak, the substance of the form, and deserves a full general theory; subgenres are more like accidents, and their study, however interesting, remains local in character, without real theoretical consequences.
		The forty-four genres of figure 9, however, suggest a different historical picture, where the novel does not develop as a single entity—where is ‘the’ novel, there?—but by periodically generating a whole set of genres, and then another, and another.
	www.newleftreview.net /Issue24.asp?Article=05 (5343 words)

	True Story by Bill Maher on Audio Cassette, MP3 Digital Download
		The scene: the red-hot comedy clubs, very late at night.
		The result: a downright hilarious novel about trying to be funny for fame, fortune, and fornication.
		This is Bill Maher's report from the front, a stageside table at the birth of the comedy boom.
	learnoutloud.com /Catalog/Arts-and-Entertainment/Comedy/True-Story/3363 (220 words)

	chicklit: paper jam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The comfortably familiar rituals of the generic romantic comedy are soothing-which must be why Serendipity got such decent reviews, because it's as cute as John Cusack can make it, but it's not exactly a highlight of film history.
		Best of all to fans of the novel, Mark Darcy is played by Colin Firth—referenced endlessly in the novel as the hot actor playing Fitzwilliam Darcy in the BBC's miniseries Pride and Prejudice, which the characters in the novel (and its sequel) watch obsessively.
		Like Wickham, the cinematic Cleaver poisons the well with a well-placed lie about Darcy, reversing the truth about which of the two is to blame in their falling out and exacerbating Bridget's bad first impression of Mark Darcy.
	www.chicklit.com /paperjam/paperjam16.html (590 words)

	BOMB Magazine: BRIAN BOYD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is something that produces an uneasy twisted smile in Kafka's The Castle, and even in The Trial, but it would be hard to find oneself further from the comic than when we are lost in those labyrinths of non-arrival.
		It's hard to think of a great novel that does not have great humor, but I can't think of a novel I could call a comedy and still think great.
		I suppose what I object to is the idea of 'comic novel' or 'comedy' as implying (a) a chuckle a minute and (b) a broad smile at the end.
	www.bombsite.com /boyd/boyd6.html (228 words)

	Genre Browser: Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We'd be hearing about High Fidelity, as critics start to create their “Ten Best” lists, even if it hadn't been an exceptionally weak year for movies.
		Based upon the cult novel by Nick Hornby, but recast in Chicago, instead of its original London setting, Fidelity is a smart, smarting work that's fiercely funny and oddly honest.
		Rob (John Cusack), a record store owner--who is our narrator and hero--takes us through his Top Five break-ups of all time.
	us.imdb.com /Sections/Genres/Comedy (224 words)

	Tristram Shandy
		Directed by the English filmmaker, Michael Winterbottom, the film somehow manages to remain true to the irreverent, wicked spirit of the novel.
		I defy anyone to keep a straight face at the film’s audacious comedy sequences.
		The film should show viewers the power of words, and it might even encourage them to explore an underrated and under read literary classic.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/T_2005/tristram_shandy.htm (420 words)

	Insight on the News: True Story: A Comedy Novel. (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Insight on the News: True Story: A Comedy Novel.
		Bill Maher's new book, True Story, a Comedy Novel (Random House, 298 pp), throws a glaringly accurate and only half-sympathetic spotlight on that need -- the book's most admirable achievement.
		Maher's protagonist, an edgy, desperate personality that anyone who has ever spent time around comedians will recognize, is the prototype for his profession: "All of them...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:15894195&refid=ink_tptd_mag (187 words)

	Amazon.com: True Story : A Comedy Novel: Books: Bill Maher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The author, host of the cable comedy show Politically Incorrect, gets his story off to an atrocious start by naming his protagonists Dick, Shit, Fat, Chink and Buck, according to their proclivity for jokes about body parts, body functions, appearance, racial identity and so on.
		If this book were a cable comedy special, it would be zapped within seconds by remote controls across the land.
		The world of comedy is fascinating, and he has some insights into human nature in general.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679753370?v=glance (1272 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Author Pierre wins Booker prize
		Author DBC Pierre has won the 2003 Booker Prize for his first novel, fl comedy Vernon God Little.
		The prestigious award is for the best novel of the last 12 months by an author from a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.
		Vernon God Little is about a high school massacre in Texas, and the head of the judges called it a "coruscating fl comedy reflecting our alarm but also our fascination with America".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3191160.stm (467 words)

	The Signal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is the casting of spells that makes the novel so engaging, especially since dabbling in voodoo is entirely new to Frank.
		Bart said she chose the 1960s as the setting for the novel because of her own fond memories of that decade.
		She cites the morning news as a source of inspiration and keeps a notebook handy to jot down ideas for plots.
	www.the-signal.com /News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=9154 (861 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		This is similar to the Bantam Spectra edition, except it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket.
		* Islands in the Net (Morrow/Arbor House 0-87795-952-8, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $18.95, 348pp, hc) Sf novel* of a complex 21st century, by the primary spokesman of cyberpunk.
		This was written in 1919 and, according to Robert Weinberg’s interesting introduction, was the first alternate-worlds novel.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b455.html (2610 words)

	Development of the Genre Concept
		A detective story, a novel, a diary or a newspaper article are each regarded as belonging to a different genre.
		Before continuing with the application of the genre concept to digital communication, we may pause for moment, and ask ourselves what elements of genre theory were available in the last decade of the 20th century, when the electronic publishing and multimedia documents became increasingly popular.
		Following Yates and Orlikowski (1992), who suggested that novel genres are most likely derived form existing ones, they tried to explain the origin of the new kind of Web pages found in the sample.
	www.computerscience.nl /people/leen/GenreDev/GenreDevelopment.htm (9249 words)

	Comedy Genre Daily Index
		Click on the Comedy banner to visit the Comedy Genre home page to read latest happenings in comic fiction at Pan.
		Comedy Genre Daily Index for Sunday, 30 November 2003
		All Pan Historia logo images are the exclusive property of PanHistoria Inc. and not to be reproduced or used for any purpose without written permission.
	www.panhistoria.com /MyBooks/comedydailies.php?Year=2004&Month=10&Day=9 (68 words)

	WiredPsyche: Dance Lessons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Science Fiction Comedy Illustrated Novel ISBN: 978-1-4116-8052-4 88 Pages Publisher: Studio Tavicat via Lulu Press Publish Date: 2006 This is first half of the colour edition.
		Science Fiction Comedy Illustrated Novel ISBN: 978-1-4116-8079-1 88 Pages Publisher: Studio Tavicat via Lulu Press Publish Date: 2006 This is second half of the colour edition.
		Science Fiction Comedy Illustrated Novel ISBN: 1411675797 316 Pages Publisher: Studio Tavicat via Lulu Press Publish Date: 2006 This is a fl and white collection of the colour books.
	tavicat.typepad.com /wiredpsyche/2005/06/dance_lessons.html (433 words)

	New Comedy SciFi Book Series Getting Rave Reviews
		Spindle, the first book in a new series of comedy science fiction novels, has been met with effusive praise from reviewers and science fiction fans.
		The book, released last August by BookSurge Publishing, an Amazon.com company, tells the story of Peter Turner, a young man who joins the Space Force in 2129, only to find that being a cop in space isn't anything like he imagined (what job ever is?).
		The result is a wonderfully entertaining SciFi novel that is a genuine pleasure from beginning to end."
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/2/emw351899.htm (452 words)

	Misadventures &Merfolk Author Kelly Reno Spooked as Novel Comes to Life
		When novelist, Kelly Reno wrote her romantic comedy novel, 'Misadventures &Merfolk', little did she know that the fictional tale about mermaids was based on fact - or that her fantasy world would start materializing.
		LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) October 19, 2004 -- When novelist Kelly Reno wrote her romantic comedy novel, ‘Misadventures &Merfolk’, little did she know that the fictional tale about mermaids was based on fact - and that her illusions would start materializing.
		“If this novel is coming to life, then I’m really onto something,” she laughs.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/10/prweb169014.htm (601 words)

	Robert Bloch -- Essays -- When Screwballs Meet
		And always Bob's writing kept steadily improving and widening in scope as he tried out various angles to get into the film-writing business, in many ways his life-time ambition.
		And then there was his first detective novel The Scarf, [a] grim vision into the mind of a psychopath, and the successes spawning from the story "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper." And finally there was Psycho itself, in many ways his finest novel, carrying with it everything Hitchcock needed for his film.
		Now that Bob's achieved his ambition, I think the best thing I can say about him is that he's kept on writing stories for the magazines and novels too.
	mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com /leiber_screwballs.html (955 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 94000554 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The result: True Story, the downright hilarious novel about trying to be funny for fame, fortune, and fornication.
		The star of Comedy Central's Politically Incorrect and a regular guest on The Tonight Show, Bill Maher is today one of America's hottest comics.
		But not so long ago, when even gas stations ran comedy stages, Bill Maher was there, too; True Story is his report from the front, a stageside table at the birth of the comedy boom.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random041/94000554.html (161 words)

	ipedia.com: Eric Idle Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eric Idle (born in Harton Hospital, South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear), England on March 29, 1943) is a member of the British comedy team Monty Python.
		His film credits include Nuns on the Run (1990) (with Robbie Coltrane), Splitting Heirs, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian, a live action Wind in the Willows and many more.
		He has also written novels, including the science-fiction comedy novel, The Road to Mars, and Hello Sailor.
	www.ipedia.com /eric_idle.html (511 words)

	Comedy Club
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		If you haven't created a character for this novel, you will only be able to read the novel.
	www.panhistoria.com /Stacks/storyprof.php?ID=59 (398 words)

	Drugs Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This novel is somewhat weak, but as a first novel it oozes with potential.
		The days are endless, the friendships never truly exist and the life of a drug runner is one of constantly trying to survive only to run another load.
		The protaganist in this novel is a woman, Alison Kerry from Key West.
	www.booksunderreview.com /Recreation/Drugs (3478 words)

	Pride and Prejudice Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		In this modern-day adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, a hard-working, young college student is determined to ignore all offers of romance until she graduates.
		With its strong performances and witty dialogue, this pleases Austen fans, lovers of cerebral drama.
		Their ability to make a suitable match is hindered by their father's death and subsequent loss of the family fortune.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=138692 (180 words)

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