What's the funniest book you have ever read /lit/?
Got any reading suggestions for those of us who enjoy a chuckle?
Gravity's Rainbow
Confederacy of Dunces
Lolita
Any John green novel
Jurgen by James Branch Cabell is hilarious/depressing
Sheridan is good if you like witty backchat plays
Also, Nabokov is hilarious if you understand his work
>>7980267
Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly
David Lodge - Changing Places
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Richard Russo - Straight Man
James Thurber - The Thurber Carnival
George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman
>>7980267
Obligatory Catch-22 post
the once and future king
I'm gonna go full /liberal-leaning pleb/ and say David Sedaris
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Woody Allen - Side Effects
All downhill from Wodehouse, as far as I know.
evelyn waugh
>>7980267
Wibberley's Mouse that Roared was great.
>>7980267
Crying of Lot 49
Catch 22
>>7980267
confederacy of dunces
>>7980267
Candide - Voltaire
Flatland - Abott
>>7980267
das kapital ;)
>>7980267
the bible
The communist manifesto by Kark Marx
>>7980267
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. The whole series.
My Twisted World
I think I found myself either chuckling or laughing hard at every single sentence.
Right-Ho Jeeves
Is Good Omens any good?
>>7981594
found the bourgeoise
Lolita made me laugh as much as it made me cry. That is a lot.
pretty silly my dudes
>>7981034
>le quirky randumb british humour
>>7981691
Fine, here you go: reddit.com
>>7980267
First chapter of Metamorphosis. It's not funny in English though.
>>7980267
Brian O'Nolan's At Swim-Two-Birds. If you haven't read this, you need to.
The Bible
>>7982331
Only 30 pages in and I back this recommendation.
>>7981713
Why do you say that? It's just short stories making fun of genre fiction.
The Martian
my journal tbqh
Sirens of Titan
Bored of the Rings.
>>7982375
It's one of my faves. Too damn funny.
>>7980267
Vineland, but I havent read many comedic books.
I picked up a copy of Catullus complete poems the other day. I didn't realize how hilarious it would be. The only other book to make me laugh this much was Catch 22
That part in the idiot about General Ivolgin throwing a lady's dog out the window of a train, even though it wasn't true the way he comes to say it delivered and made me burst out laughing.
>TAZ and Other Essays - Hakim Bey
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
>The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
>Naked Lunch / The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs
>Ethics - Spinoza
>Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels - Giorgio Manganelli (honestly haven't read it yet but I love this author to death and this is the only thing that has been translated to English so I can't really rec anything else)
What have you read by Wodehouse, op? What are some of his best? So far I've read The Code of the Woosters and Picadilly Jim
Faulkner's hilarity is underrated. Jason Compson's section in the Sound and the Fury, most of As I Lay Dying, and Lena Groves in Light in August are all so fucking funny.
Why has no one on /lit/ read Three Men in a Boat?
>>7981034
Stephen Leacock is hilarious. Sunshine sketches was great, and I've been to the real mariposa before. You can see the old churches and the old bank and the old motel the stories took place at. A great experience.
>>7983702
Post it
I liked Zadie Smith's White Teeth. In the first chapter a guy tries to kill himself but gets stopped by a butcher playing cricket with pigeons because the car he's filling with monoxide is in the way.
Spike Milligan's memoirs, aside from being genuinely interesting, are also very very funny too.
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>>7981994
I actually get mad at plebian /lit/izens who try to justify their shitty taste inte literature by saying shit like "just because it's popular doesn't mean it's bad". No it doesn't, but it sure as hell doesn't mean it's good either. Hitchhikers is quirky and you get a few chuckles out of it, but it's not " insanely hilarious" as I've heard people calling it.
