I mostly listen to non-fiction -- highly highly recommend Michael Palin's travel books and also Bill Bryson (his SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING is also very funny) -- there's nothing in those except a curse word or two to make anyone blush.
Fiction... I laughed so hard at Alexander McCall Smith's Prof. Von Igelfeld series (begins with PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS, but THE FINER POINTS OF SAUSAGE DOGS* is the funniest) that I nearly drove off the road.
My kids liked all of the above, but they are a)teens and b)weird like me.
I've also enjoyed the recent recordings of Charles Stross's Laundry series: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES and THE JENNIFER MORGUE. The kids really liked them, too, but I'll confess several passages embarrassed *me*, so they may be teen-friendly but not mom-friendly.
*no dead dogs, precisely, but one rather horrendously (if hilariously), ummm, anatomically re-arranged dachshund
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Date: 5/22/10 07:54 pm (UTC)Fiction... I laughed so hard at Alexander McCall Smith's Prof. Von Igelfeld series (begins with PORTUGUESE IRREGULAR VERBS, but THE FINER POINTS OF SAUSAGE DOGS* is the funniest) that I nearly drove off the road.
My kids liked all of the above, but they are a)teens and b)weird like me.
I've also enjoyed the recent recordings of Charles Stross's Laundry series: THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES and THE JENNIFER MORGUE. The kids really liked them, too, but I'll confess several passages embarrassed *me*, so they may be teen-friendly but not mom-friendly.
*no dead dogs, precisely, but one rather horrendously (if hilariously), ummm, anatomically re-arranged dachshund