I need some cheering up. What are the funniest books you've read?
hard mode: No memes recs or post-modern irony
I need some cheering up. What are the funniest books you've read?
hard mode: No memes recs or post-modern irony
Confederacy of Dunces
Areas of My Expertise and the sequels
Drabby Parker's Whiplash Ride through Dominavidson's Haunted Backtard
I liked John Dies at the End
gravitys rainbow, its seth mcfarlane on crack and acid.
probably memes or post-modern whatever but the 12 chairs, confederacy of dunces, good soldier svejk, at swim-two-birds, war with the newts all made me laugh a lot :^)
Augusto Monterroso's La oveja negra (The Black Sheep).
Ulysses is a riot
Wait a second
Confederacy of Dunces isn't a real book
Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald. It's the only legitimately funny book in this thread. The rest are a little wry and cooky but you won't laugh out loud at them unless you're just pretending
>i wont laugh at loud at a man going down the toilet
>i wont laugh at loud about a pie fight during a serious war
>i wont laugh at loud at goofs, gags, jokes, and rambunctious behavior
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>i wont laugh at drabby parker literally nailing dominavidon's hand to his lawnmower so he can't spit at him anymore
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J R
it has memes. loads of them. HOPPING WITH FLAVOR. HOLYYYYY....
Jacques le fataliste
If i want humour id just ask to read your diary
Anything by Wodehouse.
Cannery Row by Steinbeck
Infinite Jest
You'll laugh at how bad it is.
Came to say this.
I found The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch pretty funny at times
The incarnations of immortality series by Piers Anthony is pretty great, a mix of comedy and seriousness.
Wodehouse, Heller, Ruggles, Fforde, Pratchett and Adams are the funniest authors I've come across.
Memories of My Father Watching TV
The Long Ships. 95% is serious, but that 5% made me absolutely lose my shit.
A lot of the humor Eco throws into his fiction is a riot as well. Baudolino especially, The Prague Cemetery a close second.
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Wodehouse, Rankin, Pratchett and Adams, Grant Naylor
Lucky Jim
Catch-22. So far it's the only book I've read that made me laugh out loud.
Fictions or El Aleph by Borges are quite funny in my opinion. I don't really laugh often but sometimes I'll just let out a small chuckle while reading one of his novels, which is a lot to my standards
I like it so much that I read it 4 times
catch-22, heller
>at loud
Candide and Catch 22 have both made me laugh out loud while reading
catch 22
american psycho
candide
vanity fair
Three Men in a Boat is one of the funniest books I've ever read and I never see it recommended here
flashman
you don't need a book to laugh, just this comment is enough
Miles Davis's autobiography (with Quincy Troupe) is pretty "lol" funny.
Lolita. I am beeing completely honest: It is by far the funniest book I have ever read. Humbert Humbert is hilarious: he makes several jokes per page. While the matter of the book is serious and often brutal and sad, the voice of the narrator is one of the most comicaly gifted I have ever encountered. The guy puts any stand-up comedian to shame.
Dead Souls by Gogol and Tristram Shandy by Sterne. Besides GR probably the only two books ever to make me laugh out loud.