What's the funniest book you ever read?

I don't mean *clever*
I don't mean *aligns with your opinions*
I don't mean *parodies people you don't like*

I mean pure, honest belly laughter.

My diary~desu~

Catch 22 and dead souls

Norm MacDonald's memoir Based on a True Story.

Cugel the Clever by Jack Vance

The Onion: Our Dumb Century

The best thing that can happen to a croissant

infinite jest.

Did you read a translation? If so, which one?

Also:

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No, both in the original

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Neat

Finnegans Wake
i laughed at every dick joke

>that face when you consider the canonical ramifications of a single apostrophe, hovering a moment, idly, to decide whether you will include or exclude the simple and oft confused punctuation

I laughed out loud several times reading Splattered

I appreciate that the blurb implies that it took almost a decade for a single human being to read it. Sounds about right.

Gargantua & pantagreul

>I don't mean clever
So you're excluding most of all humour?

I would rather know what makes a clever man belly laugh than what makes an a common man chuckle.

War & War by Laszlo Kraznahorkai

The Good Soldier Svejk
or Envy by Yuri Oleshin
Or The Castle

Journey to the end of the night

most of it's free on his website, but

Probably The Master and Margarita. I don't think book has ever made me more than smile, though

Confederacy of Dunces.