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What are some funny books? /lit/ recommended of fucking course

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>> No.11080423

>>11080414
Tristram Shandy is the funniest book I've read, but I think my translation of Don Q is shit, and I've never read Gargantua and Pantagruel.

>> No.11080432

Dog of the South by Charles Portis is one of the funniest books I've read. Also A Confederacy of Dunces obviously.

>> No.11080449

>>11080414
The Hard Life and The Third Policeman both by Flann O'Brien

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>>11080414
My Twisted World by Elliot Rodger is unintentionally hilarious

>> No.11080743

>>11080414

Just a short story rec:

The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

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>>11080414
get edith grossman translation and read up on amadis of gaul and general works of chivalry for best effect, but you can still laugh without the research

>> No.11081525

>>11080414
I'll second/third/Nth Don Quixote. It's not a ripping laugh the entire time, despite being a walking parody he The Don can still be very serious, but it has a good balance between dramatic and comical atmospheres.
>that moment when sancho is standing in the dark literally shitting himself and the Don asks what that strange smell is

>> No.11081955

>>11080414
A Confederacy of Dunces is a popular one

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Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald is hilarious if you're a fan of his.I still think it would be funny if you didn't know much about him.

>> No.11081959

The Satyricon

>> No.11081961

>>11080432
>>11081955
Why does everybody say this book is funny? When does it get funny? What am I supposed to be laughing at? Stupid fart jokes?

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>>11081961
>condescending scatological whimsies
Begone philistine

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I strongly recommend pic related.

>> No.11082207

>>11080414
I enjoy pretty much all of James Thurber's stories

>> No.11082218

wolff, kafka, highsmith, dahl

>> No.11082223

>>11081958
I love that you can't really tell if Norm is fucking with you in the book. Where does it begin and when does it end? Brilliant book

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Don Quixote and A Confederacy of Dunces, like everyone keeps saying. I'd also add The Good Soldier Svejk, which doesn't get nearly enough love here.

>> No.11082253

>>11080762
nothing beats The Don

>> No.11082286

>>11082231
just ordered the good soldier svejk, thanks for the recc, anon, remember hearing about it from here before and completely forgot about it

>> No.11082381

Catch 22

>> No.11082388

The Pickwick Papers