/lit/ - Literature

what are some books with good/funny dialogues?
i just read the Hangmen by Martin Mcdonagh and want something similar

Enlightenment. This is higher awareness, we tell ourselves that truth is enconsed in products and lifestyle, that there exists somewhere out there a one final aspiration, a true self, a way of life not marred by the petty scrapes and discontents of material failure, empty despair and that eternal hoping for something greater that never seems to pan out.
We boil entire philosophies down into sets of accoutrements like the sap of a thousand trees, never questioning our own abilities to spin lies so elegant they convince even those who proffer them.
I’ve seen a dark wave coming over the bay as the snow began to fall - When those first crystals hit the cedar planks of the decking behind my windows I was sure that everything would pan out just fine, expectations fulfilled like orders, hope justified in some twisted chemical notion of final release. It all died in front of me, it all withered like bravado in a 4am street fight where you see the knives come out and the foreign faces rolling up on little Honda scooters and pulling deep lengths of chain out of messenger bags. You know the pain is coming soon and hard but you stand your ground and it’s just one more scar on your forehead in the grand scheme of things.
I’ve seen people die in gutters and I did nothing, I just watched them convulse and spew diner food over the lapels of Carhartt outerwear. I’ve seen mangled masses of flesh pulling themselves from flaming wreckage on a highway I’d spent hours running along, scrawling a meaningless moniker over and over as i did so, savoring the fear as a primal leftover, seeing how deep terror could run.
Is this all we are? Is this all it amounts to, some twisted conflagration of silhouettes and colorways that we subject ourselves to on the weekly? Why am I alive? I should have been torn apart by a cross town train in 98, but I’m still here, getting sicker by the day, hoping in vain that somewhere along the line my guts will stop shitting out these endless oceans of bile.

The Picture of Dorian Gray