I love Tristram Shandy. It's one of my fave "classics." It just has that kind subtle/underhanded? humor in it that I find myself snickering too. I didn't know there was a movie.
Right now I'm reading Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues for light reading, heh, and also re-reading Silent Spring since I quote it quite a bit in a paper I'm presenting in September.