Very much the sort of Douglas Adam's humor we've all grown to know and love. It's a spoof dictionary of things for which words don't exist, together with various place names. The sort of book you take to bed to relax with, but then keep yourself awake by laughing too much. Not the sort of book to read from cover to cover, but more the sort of book you dip into when you need cheering up.

har de har

i love funny dictionaries and Douglas Adams. no wonder i like this one so much.

The Deeper Meaning of Liff is a collection of words for things that do not yet have a name but should have.
Crazy, but plausible idea.
Sometimes the humour/sarcasm is hard to get for non-English speakers, but still I had a great time going through the book which is more of a dictionary than a novel

They're just like sniglets, but a thousand times funnier, because Douglas Adams wrote them.

I can't say I've read them all (yet), but I get going and within a few I'm laughing so hard, my sides hurt.

As one might expect, the extra stuff--maps, index, etc.--to this book are hilarious as well.

About half of the content is from the "Meaning of Liff" so this was kind of a let down. I still enjoyed it though.

Find words for those strange everyday things that you struggle to describe - e.g. Lusby - the overflow from a bra

I think I have the earliest version of this book which was co-written with Frank Lloyd. It's a little black book published in 1983 in which the authors take the names of places (most of them bizzare) and assign meaning to them. Hilarious

Any quibpippet can fancy themselves the type to make up words but the only two palokes with the flemschleiss to pull it off were dear Doug and jambleth John. Frequently on target, occasionally concise, but raddispurigalopagas throughout - and how!

Es como un diccionario, es para hojearlo y reírse un rato o mandarle fotos de los conceptos a los amigos. Pero eso, quiero mucho a Douglas Adams

While funny, The Deeper Meaning of Liff is certainly a minor work in the Douglas Adams canon. It suffers from what might best be described as an incomplete vision and is a rather difficult (but quick) read because in the end it’s just a silly little joke. The observations in it are often hilarious, but I would have to say that it’s for diehards only.

Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. Not really 'short stories', but how else would I classify a spoof dictionary!

Re-read but no review