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And the Best Aussie Book of the Year Award goes to the second one from the top! Even though it was written good 5 years ago. I can recommend it to anybody who likes to laugh out loud and cry quietly. Here goes an extrat:

If you're Australian, you will at least have heard of Terry Dean. If you aren't, you won't have, because while Australia is an eventful place, what goes on there is about as topical in world newspapers as 'Bee Dies in New Guinea After Stinging Tree by Mistake.' It's not our fault. We're too far away. That's what a famous Australian historian once called the 'tyranny of distance.' What he meant was, Australia is like a lonely old woman dead in her apartment; if every living soul in the land suddenly had a massive coronary at the exact same time and if the Simpson Desert died of thirst and the rainforests drowned and the barrier reef bled to death, days might pass and only the smell drifting across the ocean to our Pacific neighbours would compel someone to call the police. Otherwise we'd have to wait until the Northern Hemisphere commented on the uncollected mail.

I think I am going through a funny phase at the moment, judging by the books on my bedside (except for the bottom one, which I don't think will be funny). Although I watched a not- funny-at-all film last night and am in ore of Ben Affleck. Argo was good, but The Town was fantastic.