What was the most fun book you've ever read?
Fun
my diary
Dickens is a lot of fun
Don Quixote
Probably some fantasy book I read as a kid or a choose your own adventure novel.
The Talented Mister Ripley.
No, seriously, or even, jokingly.
this for me too
Catch-22 or Ficciones
The Crying of Lot 49 is both short and entertaining and I enjoyed it a lot
Las Muertas
Los Relámpagos de Agosto
Don Quixote is one of the few books that had me laughing while reading it.
Illuminatus!
This was a blast.
Kissinger's biography
t. Power is the greatest aphrodisiac
this one is hilarious
Probably The Master and Margarita
Yes!!! This.
Animal Farm
Infinite Jest honestly
reading catch 22 right now, and it's just plain hilarious.
Better than the stand that's for sure.
Broom of the System.
I was thinking the same thing
Also this
Any "Pynchon-lite" is pretty fun. Also, the Illiad, Don Juan (Byron), Fear and Loathing, Wittgenstein's Mistress, a Clockwork Orange, and Harry Potter
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fourthing don quixote
it's amazing how that book can simultaneously praise and poke fun at the human spirit and weave all of this commentary seamlessly together by subjecting sancho and don quixote to endless fucking looney tunes shenanigans.
my favorite was when don quixote asked that sancho count how many teeth he had left after getting the shit kicked out of him, then when sancho came up to look, quixote puked in sancho's mouth and face. goes to show that true works of art are timeless.
Stars My Destination
AKA:
Tiger Tiger
AKA:
The Adventures of Tiger Millionaire, Staring Alfred Bester
Didn't age well enough to say its good, so it must be fun, right?
Yes always
The third policeman /thread
Ranma 1/2
fairy and folk tales
children's books
fantasy teen lit
recently
Figaro's Marriage
The ABC's of Socialism
Lolita
half the story was dogshit but Nabokovs word play throughout was yummy as fuck
Recent read two Culture novels (Player of Games and Excession) and man were they fun.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Endlessly fun and readable.
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In Praise of Folly
Satyricon
The Acharnians (underrated compared to Lysistrata or The Clouds)
I'll get called plebbiter for this, but the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series reduced me to tears with its absurdity.
That being said, I was in gradeschool, but I still remember it quite fondly.
Catch 22 will always have a place in my favorites
This
Oh for sure, if by just having a better ending alone.
I found Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai to be rather fun and quick. Very comfy, even if it hurts a little.
Great Expectations. I loved that book so much. Never has a book been so enjoyable to me.
Harry Potter desu
>Ficciones
These two are also Great
Seconding this one
What, besides Inherent Vice, is considered Pynchon light? I really enjoyed IV.
The Water-Method Man by John Irving.
Great book, well written, thought provoking. Sometimes I literally burst out laughing during the read
The Count of Monte Cristo
American Psycho
Catch-22
Cannery Row
Hitchhiker’s Guide
these
generally most stuff by dfw is pretty funny, even though he did not intend it to be. he said in some interview that ij was meant to be a sad book, and he got really confused when the readers found it funny
> What was the most fun book you've ever read?
"OP's gay AIDS escapades, the compleat collection", volume two.
Bar none.
probably some Hard Case Crime book
Don Quixote hands down. The Iliad is a close second, that reads like Hong Kong-era John Woo.
I love Les Miserables and Moby Dick and considered them but there's a lot in there that, although enjoyable, I couldn't consider "fun."
bleeding edge
A Confederacy of Dunces and Norm MacDonald's Based on a True Story
based Norm and Adam Eget jerking off punks
Yep... cannery row
Tortilla flat just made me cry with joy
Lanark
"He couldnt rape my body, so he raped my ears."
Will read again!
Fun is a meme. Lurk moar.
I just love how Veeky Forums is the last board left, where people tell newfags to lurk moar instead of explaining everything to them
is this a meme? I honestly cant remember an author from high school I dreaded more.
A confederacy of Dunces is the most fun Ive had followed closely by Gatsby.
Happens elsewhere too, but I guess you don't lurk enough on other boards to spot it.
Fellow Mexican? Los relámpagos made me laugh out loud
Narnia
endorse ficciones
also ulysses
fair enough. Growing older I abandoned most other boards except for this magical place and /wsg/.
Borges is really fun to read.
Life: A User's Manual
seconding this, I had to read it in Middle School and hated it, mostly because I didn't understand the hilarious 'kid-logic' Pip had in the beginning. Reread it last summer and it's now solidly one of my favorites, I'd say it's the perfect book to give a kid when they head off to college and/or leave home for the first time.
kurt vonnegut breakfast of champions
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius or Civilwarland in Bad Decline
Pale Fire. I guess I'm sucker for the kind of games Nabokov is master of.