>>8174132
Don Quixote
>>8174165
>when he rolled around on his back reciting medieval poetry in pain
Unironically, Catch-22 and A Scanner Darkly made me lol a few times.
Pretty much anything vonnegut
candide
>>8174132
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>>8174132
Recently read Northanger Abbey, and I also laughed out loud quite a bit.
Austen is a turbo bitch, she's fantastic.
>>8175203
Don in the train station made me cry.
>>8175265
I'll probably read that next
>>8174132
Read the first 100 pages of "In the Zone" today on a flight, definitely qualifies.
>>8175265
there's also a lewd joke in mansfield park
>>8174132
Actually the funniest book I have ever read.
>inb4 german """humor"""
The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
and Suttree believe it or not (a lot of Suttree is tragic l and even horrific at times, but Harrogate is a great comic character and even J-Bone and the gay guy with the boils on his face have their moments )
Gogol - The inspection
Gogol - Dead Souls
the man was a comic genious
The Sot-Weed Factor. Funniest book ever written.
Babbitt is another book, unmentioned on /lit/, that is hilarious and quite good. I've only seen a Sinclair Lewis mentioned a handful of times
THE BEST
easy mode: A Confederacy of Dunces
>>8174132
Listened to the Symposium audiobook last night and the part with Alcibiades was pretty lol worthy.
Journey to the End of the Night
Gogol's short stories plus the Government Inspector
Moliere's plays
Quevedo's poems
Boileau's Satires
>>8174165
Also this
>>8174132
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Actually this.
Everything I've read by Gogol
White Noise by Don DeLillo.
>>8174165
This
>>8180826
Seconded
Only novel to ever make me dissolve in laughter is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I've cracked a good guffaw to most of Bill Bryson's books too.
Further smirks and chuckles recently provoked by:
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Freedom by Jonathon Franzen
Debout-Payé by Gauz
Candide by Voltaire
Pretty sure I found Neuromancer and Blood Meridian funny at points but it's a while since I read them.
I'm reading Mason & Dixon for the second time and it's making me laugh out loud again.
>>8174132
Lolita
>>8181056
I love the part then he says that Aristotle ideas are Plato's ideas diluted with common sense, and if Aristotle is difficult, it's because Plato and common sense don't go well together
Or when he makes fun of Nietzsche, comedy gold
Seconding Gogol. A surprising one is Marcus Aurelius, the absurd comparisons to everyday life he makes, implying commonplace axioms are retarded, had me pause to laugh for minutes
And certain bits of Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin biographies.
>when someone replaces Molotov's dress uniform dagger with a pickle during a dinner with Churchill
>>8175265
im on sense and sensibility, and no laffs yet. soon?
>>8181077
>>when someone replaces Molotov's dress uniform dagger with a pickle during a dinner with Churchill
I'm really glad Lenin died so people with humour became accepted in the party.
Nigger on the wall poem cracks me up every time
>>8181078
Probably not, S&S is her driest and least fun to be honest.
>>8181088
fuck, i regret everything
whats the best one to read first?
Hunger by Knut Hamsun had kek'ing quite hard
Most shit by this try hard.
It's all so overwrought.
I was surprised not to see Pratchett here.
But, the funniest thing I've read so far would have to be Aristophanes'Ecclesiazusae, or Assemblywomen. It was written more than 2000 years ago, and still it's so contemporary!
>>8181067
i laughed when he "criticized" jesus for not being nice enough
>Plato and common sense don't go well together
that's barely even an observation, let alone a joke
his polemic on nietzsche was annoying and missed the point
