My World and Welcome to It by James Thurber - unabridged - 7 tapes - 10.5 hours read by Wolfram Kandinsky - The crudely drawn cartoon shows a dinner party at table, wine glasses raised. The host says, "It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption." If you think that's funny, then you'll love this selection by one of America's greatest humorists. Unfortunately, Thurber's cartoons can't be represented on tape, but his essays and stories are plenty good. Tony Award winner John Cullum's Southern, bucolic sound only uneasily expresses the epitome of New York urbanity. And, although Cullum at times applies some puckish imagination to his readings, he gives a rather colorless performance to the work as a whole. This collection of short essays and stories is marvellous. I have carried it with me on every trip I have taken since I first read it. I have my grandfather's copy, which has been on a longtime loan (say, ten years...) I am fondest of the essays, which range from clever little tirades against the Telephone Company and the Motor Vehicle Bureau to accounts and commentaries on Thurber's travels in France and Italy. It is really a wonderful wonderful book, very funny and acute. Please read it.