The phenomenal success of Laughter in Appalachia, Loyal Jones' and Billy Edd Wheeler's first collection of humor (now in its twelfth printing), says something about the importance of humor in our lives, and the talent Jones and Wheeler have in finding the best of it. More Laughter in Appalachia, their fourth collection of Southern mountain humor, may well be their funniest and most comprehensive collection to date. Packed with humorous jokes, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and song, not to mention a nineteenth-century sermon a backwoods political speech, and a comical arrest warrant, this...
The phenomenal success of Laughter in Appalachia, Loyal Jones' and Billy Edd Wheeler's first collection of humor (now in its twelfth printing), says s...
It's a time in the near future. Massive technological advances have produced many new devices. Some are helpful and some, perhaps, are not so helpful. It's a time when virtual sales assistants appear magically to help shoppers make choices at the malls. There are memory recorders which help students take notes in class--or can be used for devious means to read each other's thoughts. And there are "driverless" trucks, controlled by drivers from the comforts of their homes. Problems occur when Grace's cousin Paige takes the controls. She thinks she's playing a game machine. What adventures they...
It's a time in the near future. Massive technological advances have produced many new devices. Some are helpful and some, perhaps, are not so helpful....
