hey, who's that in that Annie Lennox video?
I just picked up a copy of Hugh Laurie's novel The Gun Seller. I've been a fan of Laurie's acting since I started watching Blackadder in reruns on PBS as a teenager, then moved on to Jeeves & Wooster, and now I'm a big House junkie. But I thought it might be interesting to see if he's still funny when he doesn't have a team of writers putting words in his mouth.
He is. I'm only two chapters in, so apply grains of salt at will, but so far, the best way I can think of to describe Laurie's style is that it's very Douglas Adams-esque: very specific and off-the-wall imagery, weird little tangents here and there, etc. It's too early in his literary career to say whether Laurie can be as consistently funny in the way Adams could, but he's got a new book coming out next year, so I suppose time will tell. In the meantime, I'm really digging The Gun Seller.
