Topic started by bookworm (@ 164.164.86.66) on Sat Jul 29 13:07:36 .
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The most funny works I have read are The Pickwick Papers, Three Men in a Boat by Jerome.K.Jerome & the Psmith series of P.G. Wodehouse. Can I know your opinion on these, and any other which you feel is good comic fiction?

Responses:

• From: JayBee (@ sp-74-57.tm.net.my) on: Tue Aug 1 05:01:06 EDT 2000
  
  I suppose, the word 'comic fiction' would not be appropriate in this place.
  Nowadays, 'comic' or 'comics' denotes a separate form of literature. Roy Rogers, Buck Jones, Batman, Defenders of the Universe, etc., are referred to as comics.
  
  Even Amar Chitra Katha group of pictorial stroies are known as comics.
  
  'Comedy fiction' or 'Humourous fiction' would be more appropriate.
  
  The 'Jeeves' series by P.G.Wodehouse are very humourous also.
  
  The 'Doctor' series were rip-roaring humourous pieces.
  The series deal with the making of a doctor, his practice, etc.
  The author is Richard Gordon.
  There were four in that series.
  
  The most famous one is the 'Doctor in the House.'
  
  The British 'Punch' magazine had written a commentary like this.
  
  'Richard Gordon has grafted P.G.Wodehouse onto 'The Lancet'.
  The Lancet is a medical journal.
  
  
• From: bookworm (@ 164.164.86.66) on: Thu Aug 3 09:22:07 EDT 2000
  
  Jaybee
  Can you tell whether the 'Doctor' series is available in India? Who are the publishers? Thanks...
  
  
• From: bala (@ 202.9.161.139) on: Fri Aug 11 03:40:16 EDT 2000
  
  dear bookworm,
  
  I feel three men in the boat is better than the others you mentioned.
  
  Have you read the "william Brown" series of books by Richmal Crompton. They fall in the category what you call as "comic fiction"
  
  
• From: JayBee (@ sp-74-51.tm.net.my) on: Sat Aug 12 01:09:15 EDT 2000
  
  First published by Michael Joseph in 1955.
  Penguin edition in 1961.
  
  I bought the Penguin edition from the Bharathi Puthaga Nilayam in Madurai. But that was in early sixties.
  The following belong to the series:
  
  Doctor in the House
  Doctor at Sea
  Doctor in Love
  Doctor at Large
  Doctor in Clover
  Doctor and Son
  The captains Table
  
  Dr.Richard Gordon was an anaesthetist at a big Lodon Hospital, a ship's surgeon, and an assistant editor of a medical journal.
  He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing the 'Doctor' series.
  
  Evidently he must have done well - because he was living in a Victorian house in south London:-)
  
  Have a taste......
  
  'What? You mean take all her clothes off her chest?', the mother asked in horror.
  
  'I mean take all her clothes off her chest. Otherwise I shall not be able to make a diagnosis.'
  
  Eva said nothing as her mother peeled away several layers of cardigans, blouses, and vets. At last her chest was exposed. I laid my stethoscope over her heart and said, 'Big breaths'.
  
  She glanced at me and grinned.
  
  "Yeth,' she said proudly, 'and I am only thikthteen.'
  
  (Lisp- a pronounciation fault where 's' is pronounced as 'th'.)
  
  
  
  

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