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Post some funny books that are not A confederacy of dunces
>>7484435
jesus christ this place is hopeless
i'm gonna post something to get the thread started
Laughed out loud while reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas more than any other book
Suttree
The Dog of the South
Modern Baptists
A Feast of Snakes
"The English Mail-Coach; or, The Glory of Motion" by Thomas De Quincey is the funniest thing ever written.
people keep telling me catch-22 is funny but in reality
it isn't.
"The Man Who Was Thursday" by Chesterton.
I don't laugh much but I nearly pissed myself with how brilliantly kek-filled it is.
>>7484428
I love my Terry Pratchett, if you want something better written, Pynchon is pretty funny
Moby Dick was actually one of the funniest fucking books I've ever read, especially the first 100 or so pages, but also when Pip kept falling out of the boat, the part about Queequeg in his coffin, and even strewn throughout the notoriously dense cetological chapters are some laugh out loud bits
HEART OF DARKNESS
>"My good sir," he cried, "I write by dictation!"
>I demanded rivets.
>>7484804
Do you know if there is an author that has the same sense of humor as Pratchett with good prose? I love him, but I go through physical pain when I read through some of his passages.
>>7484508
beckett is hilarious
Catch 22
Lucky Jim
The Life And Opinons of Tristram Shandy
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Loved Ones
>>7484435
One-track minds on this site
three men in a boat
don quixote
hitchhikers
JR
>>7485357
>hitchhikers
>>>/reddit/
>>7485361
>doesnt like hitchikers
pleb
>>7485366
>>doesnt like hitchikers
>pleb
Douglas Adams wrote an whole essay about how pleb books are better than litfic.
>>7485375
that makes you a double pleb for not liking it then
Christopher moore anyone?
>>7484428
The third policeman is excellent. Perfect balance of humor and darkness
Terry Southern's books
