What's the funniest book you've read?

muc by anna mocikat

>Main protagonist is a strong independent woman
>Her main trait is that she is strong and doesn't take shit from anyone
>Does some epic action scenes
>A beta loves her, she knows it
>She starts an affair with an alpha, even though he basically enslaved her brother and treats him like shit
>Everybody tells her to not do it.
>Alpha betrays her, sells out information of her to his influential father
>The beta is there for her and they end up together
>She still longs for alpha, though
>Sometimes makes out with him, but because she is a good women, she can control herself in the last minute and stop it

>In the end, the beta dies because of a stupid and unecessary (and convenient) mistake she made and the alpha realizes how beautiful she is and tries to win her over. Couldn't get myself to read the next part yet.

/canlit/ humor:
The Best Laid Plans, Terry Fallis
Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies

>Humor in a social setting is the lowly plebs pathetic attempt to compensate for a lack of popularity.

Wow.

bukowski

Foucault's pendulum. I laughed out loud with that book plenty of times. Cant wait to read more of Eco's work

Eco is based I read right now Prague cemetary pretty good

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I've never been laughing so hard with a book.

Pickwick Papers
Jeeves and Wooster books
TCoL49
Gravity's Rainbow

probably pic related or Revenge by Aleksander Fredro

btw are you from Poland OP ?

In Praise of Folly is fucking hilarious. I re-read it every year, always makes me laugh.

this.

pulp by bukowski is astonishing funny

this

I'm a Polish minority in Lithuania.

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My Immortal
The first 50 or so pages of The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra (it gets repetitive after a while)
A Confederacy of Dunces

Finnegans Wake

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sweet, i didn't know we roleplayed as upper crust douchebags on this site. keep going, user, you're doing great

fear & loathing in las vegas

Infinite Jest

Dead souls
The petty demon
First 70% of catch 22

Candide

The Young Hitler I Knew

Martial - Epigrams
Plato - Symposium (or any of the dialogues, really)
TCol49
Don Quixote
Ulysses
Shakespeare Complete

The funniest book I've ever read was "El Buscón " variously translated as "Pablo the Swindler" or "Paul the Sharper", etc. 17th century Spanish picaresque short novel by Francisco de Quevedo. Only in Rabelais has scatological gross-out humor been used with such scholarly finesse. The comedy is shamelessly immature - but executed so well it works. One scene involving a chamber pot in a prison had me in danger of rupturing in internal organ from laughter as I read it on the train, trying to stifle my convulsions as several passengers eyed me curiously.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut has me laughing out loud the entire time I read it.

I could never make it past the first few chapters. I just gave up.
My copy is still around somewhere, I'll give it a chance again soon

I also put it down after a few pages. I picked it up 3 or 4 years later and finished it - and it was worth it. It is tremendously funny, but also incredibly bitter and tragic as well. If you're okay with being mentally/emotionally smacked about - go for it.

Oh God, Don Quixote was hilarious. He fricking puts a barber's basin on his head thinking it is Mambrino's magic helmet, and goes around discussing philosophy with a damn bowl wobbling on his head.

I loved Dead Souls - though I was devasted by the unfinished state of it. I laughed so much when Chichikov is trying to get a woman landowner to understand his intention of buying "dead people's names" from her, and she keeps hesitating and chewing it over, enraging him as he attempts to explain for the millionth time she has literally NOTHING to lose, and will be making money for nothing. And still she doesn't get it and is overly-tentative.
Gogol's Government Inspector had me rolling on the floor as well.

I like when a highbrow lit book manages to be laugh out loud funny. Some instances: Dead Souls, Ulysses, The Trial.
Petty Demon was funny as fuck as well, I'm surprised to see it mentioned in Veeky Forums
Don Quixote is hilarious as well

Ah, how did I forget this? The battle against the tin of pineapple, Harris and the hedge maze, the fake fish on the tavern wall! The banjo as well - what a brilliant book!

Pickwick was pure gold. And Dickens was only 24 when he wrote it. It's is so full of life and vigor. My favorite parts (aside from the ubiquitous fat boy, Pickwick on ice, and Sam Weller's banter would have to be the esteemed lady poet whose husband recites her universally-praised "Ode To a Dying Frog". Satirical genius.

name of the rose is funnier imo

Did you even read it? There's like 200 pages of lovers' stories right in the middle. Not funny at all.

OP the funniest book of all time is Tristram Shandy.

I think it's fair to say TS was the IJ of the 18th century. Or rather IJ is the TS of the 21st century. And TS is better. You'd see similarities having read both. DFW was very much influenced by Sterne.

ulysses

came here to say the same thing.
the whole washington irving scenario gave me a good chuckle.
and just all the actual 'catch-22's' that happened throughout the book,i thought were very cleverly put together

agreed IJ was actually funny
and fuck anyone who thinks its just a meme

You can just skip those stories. Cervantes was simply trying to prove he had more extensive literary qualities than lowbrow comedy, I think.
Tristram Shandy was incredibly good. I loved the part when Dr Slop delivers perhaps the longest and most elaborate curse in literature at the poor servant Obadiah, simply for tying his medical bag too tightly. It goes on forever and had my sides aching.

I didn't find it that funny. It's funny sure, but it's a weirdly touching and emotional book, way more than it's flat out funny.

But that's honestly what makes It so good, it's both funny and touching

I thought that it was pretty funny when hamlet fucked with polonius.

Tortilla Flat

Quixote, COD.

Oh also The Metamorphosis and The Trial

the metamorphosis is the right answer. The moment when Gregor is simultaneously realizing that he has metamorphosed and attempting to prepare for work is fucking hilarious yet tragic.

>getting mad at low hanging bait

I laugh at almost all the books I read because sometimes the wording becomes funny in the modern context.

Didn't expect to see this here but this is also the funniest book I've ever read and quite possibly the funniest thing I've experienced in my life. I could just never stop laughing. I love that Tommy Wiseau is a real person.

edgemaster mcphee

Laxness's Independent People could be really funny besides being really sad. Moby Dick can be really funny too. A lot of books are funny dude honestly.

Fool by Christopher Moore

^I second Moby Dick

The trial is really funny. I dont quite understand when people usually perceive kafka as "nightmarish" and such. Its kind of terrible for sure, but in a very funny surreal way. Its easier to laugh at the main protagonist rather than self insert, because josef k himself works in absolutely nonsensical manner

'Mulligan Stew' would be up there. The sex scene had me doubled over in pain laughing.

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I'm not at all surprised. I'm reading it now and it's allegedly a 'hilarious' book. 100 pages in and it literally has not raised a smile. Maybe it's a fashion thing where comedy has changed over the decades, but I've really never experienced this amount of distance between a book's reputation and my response.

SALMONELLA MEN ON PLANET PORNO IS SO FUNNY. BUNCHA SHORT STORIES BUT THEY'RE SO FUNNY READ IT

i felt the same in the beginning, it's very confusing when you first start. just focus on what you learn about each character in every chapter, and soon you'll grasp more.

Just started Pynchon's Vineland and I find myself laughing a lot at this book, I'm getting more of a kick after 30pages than I'd gotten from Confederacy of Dunces.

The Room is a special brand of comedy that only people like Wiseau can unintentionally make. I might pick that book up then, it's written by the male supporting actor of the room right? Can't think of his name

Greg Sestero, I think. The book gives a fascinating (and hilarious) insight into the Kruger-Dunning effect, ie: the inverse correlation between a subject's competence in a particular field and his confidence in that field.

Catch 42
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Candy
The Loved One

Don Quixote.

> You can just skip those stories.

But you shouldn't. They're still brilliant.

>when that asshole shits in his bed

I tried to shill for this on Veeky Forums and obviously still do .
Men are better than women is and will always be the quintessential piece maleterature and Dick Masterson the only writer who can produce such a beautiful prose while drunk and stands one might even say taller than Giants the likes of Joyce ,Pynchon and DFW . One random sentence taken from any chapter of the book is enough to prose-rape and sjw-trigger Marguirite Younge's entire Miss Macintosh my darling .
Definitely worth reading

Milo Minderbender is my hero

ironically shakespeare

unironically* ffs

I'm planning on reading that one too!

Probably Yes by Thomas Bernhard. Gravity's Rainbow is very funny as well.

naked lunch

Don Quijote is easily the funniest thing i've read. La Ciudad y los Perros comes as a close second

The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw had some nice banter, but that was just isolated pieces of dialogue.

i was going to post this
one of my favourite books ever
perfect lazy summer day reading

>Gravity's Rainbow is very funny as well.
The disgusting English sweets section is probably the funniest thing I've ever read

>100 pages left
>"Pynchon is probably to start wrapping shit up now"
>but first, let me spend nine pages on an immortal sentient light bulb

I fucking loved Byrons section.

Probably one of the Discworld books. The Last Continent, in particular, is one long extended shitpost about Australia

It's actually the highest form of art. The lowest is the tragedy.

I know this is Veeky Forums but wouldn't it be better as audio book?

Underrated post

>the bowl of petunias thought
>"oh no not again"

this. are we just pretending this isn't the funniest book ever written?

This.

White Noise made me laugh my ass off. Not the book in its entirety, but in quite a few spots.

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Been looking around for it and I can't even seem to find an ebook of it online. The fuck?