What are some books that are both funny and heartbreaking?
City of Thieves by David Benioff. I mean somebody other than me has had to have read it.
Mason&Dixon
Cannery Row
>>7366974
I hated this. Either the English translation sucks, or the writer was really not that good.
>>7367134
>Takimoto wrote two Afterwords published in various editions of his novel. In the first afterword, dated December 2001, he stated that he was a hikikomori and was still recovering: "... the themes addressed in this story are not things of the past for me but currently active problems." In a second Afterword, dated April 2005, Takimoto admitted that he had not written "a single new story" since N.H.K. and that he was "reduced to a NEET, ... living as a parasite on the royalties from this book." He stated that he felt "completely unable to write" and "incapacitated."
This is daijoubu.
>>7367103
LN's represent the absolute worst in literary value because they use the worst language in the poorest way.
The Brothers Karamazov.
Catch 22
>>7366974
one hundred years of solitude
(Infinite Jest)
>>7367103
Just watch The Tatami Galaxy instead.
slaughterhouse five was pretty funny at times
>>7366974
Lamb. I wish the rest of Moore's books were this amazing.
>>7367103
the plot is really good though
The Young Hitler I Knew
not trolling
>>7366974
That's how I feel with much of Kafka's work.
>>7366974
Chester Himes novels, especially the Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Johnson ones
>>7367244
>worst language
fuck you whitu piggu
>>7367103
the anime was pretty good though
voice acting was aight, made me feel and also get up off my ass
>>7368955
>get up off my ass
Spook.
Oblomov is what you are looking for, OP.
>>7369000
oblomov isn't funny
>>7367550
I've read almost all of his books. I fucking love Christopher Moore.
>Fool
Notes from Underground
Don Quixote
>>7366984
I have, and I finished it in a little over a day.
Excellent read; I couldn't put it down.
>>7369005
Good answer.
>>7369238
>Notes from Underground
What the hell is funny about it? It's downright depressing from the start.
The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie
>>7369282
Thank you! You made my night, anon.
>>7369518
Undergroundio showing up uninvited at the sending-off party is pretty funny.
Pnin.
>>7368022
>plot
>>7369697
Caring about plot in a cartoon or a book purely for wasting time is fine.
>>7369707
>Caring about a cartoon or a book purely for wasting time
If you could see me now by Cecilia Ahern
It's either the most depressing funny book of all time or the funniest depressing book of all time. I'm note sure.
