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What is the funniest book that you have ever read?

>> No.14256369

your diary desu

>> No.14256394
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The Code of Wooster had me audibly laughing several times every chapter.

>> No.14256559

The Old Teſtament

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Written by a qt314 autistmo

>> No.14256659

Naked Lunch

>> No.14256873
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Paul Beatty’s The Sellout

>> No.14256881

The third policeman was pretty funny, as was o alienista

>> No.14256884

>>14256366
Unironically Lonesome Dove

>> No.14256886

>>14256366
The Communist Manifesto—shit’s hilarious

>> No.14256966

Real Ultimate Power

>> No.14256974

>>14256366
Catch-22, which feels a little embarrassing to admit for some reason.

>> No.14256995

>>14256873
Based.

>> No.14256996

>>14256974
Why does that admittance warrant embarrassment for you?

>> No.14257005

>>14256996
Not sure. I feel like I'm supposed to consider the book high school tier, beneath me or some shit.

>> No.14257008

>>14256369
came here to post this. the hivemind is real.

>> No.14257016
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>>14257005
That's slave mentality, anon. Liberate yourself from it. Fuck your peers. There's nothing wrong with always looking to improve your taste, but don't be ashamed if you find something deemed "high school tier" to be enjoyable. Take pleasure in it because no one else will. I read The Count Of Monte Cristo in eighth grade and it's still in my top five books.

Also, Catch-22 is still my favorite comedic book despite reading several other comedic novels and plays. I like the absurdity of it.

>> No.14257037

>>14257016
I mean, it does not bother or hinder me. It's just this curious feeling I got when I thought about it.

>> No.14257064

probably hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, especially the biscuits at the train station scene

>> No.14257136

>>14257005
Oh yeah? You think that's embarrassing? You want embarrassment anon? I'll tell you one of my darkest secrets that I keep from /lit/, since we're being out in the open..
I love Louis L'amour and most western genre fiction.
Name of the Wind was a great book.

>> No.14257144

Finnegans wake obviously

>> No.14257185

Fuck art hoes and the shitholes they creep around in.

>> No.14257226

The Name of the Rose

>> No.14257234

>>14256886

Boomer

>> No.14257516

>>14257136
>I love Louis L'amour and most western genre fiction
Based
>Name of the Wind was a great book
Cringe

>> No.14257522

>>14257185
based. They get my dick hard though. And most of them are surrounded by totally emasculated "men" and are in desperate need of a dominant man to fuck them good. They're freaks

>> No.14257529

>>14257522
It's dominant men that made them like that to begin with. In the past of every wrecked female there's a dominant man who didn't give to shits about her and whose approval she's still seeking.

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>>14257234

>> No.14257571

post office

>> No.14257579
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Infinite Jest

>> No.14257582

Fag thread le funny book

>> No.14257586

>>14257008
>came here to post this. the hivemind is real.
came here to post this. the hivemind is real.

>> No.14257590

Every thread on lit is like a penis measurement contest. I found this book funny that means im smart enough to see the humour in it. If you actually read the classics and laugh while turning the pages im sorry but youre retarded.

>> No.14257592

>>14257586
>came here to post this. the hivemind is real.
>came here to post this. the hivemind is real.
came here to post this. the hivemind is real.

>> No.14257613

confederacy of dunces
the bible is hilarious too

>> No.14257640

>>14256366
The Bible

>> No.14257651

>>14256366
"Pablo the Swindler" (El Buscón) (1626) by Francisco de Quevedo. I quite literally had to bite my tongue and the inside of my cheeks to stop myself from laughing out loud on the train.

>> No.14257654

>>14256966
Based, flashback

>> No.14257656

John Swartzwelder Books.

>> No.14257658

>>14257136
>>14257516
fuck this spastic coon i loved name of the wind aswell
doors of stone when

>> No.14257678

>>14256394
PG Wodehouse for me, too, and while I could choose The Code of the Woosters, I'll go with The Inimitable Jeeves...or Leave it to PSmith...or Right Ho, Jeeves...or

>> No.14257723

Child of god, unironically.

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>>14257590
>tfw he's not intelligent enough to understand the subtle humour of the classics

>> No.14257747

>>14257590
Imagine being so dumb to criticise others for a "dick measuring" contest yet unexpectedly falling into such contest yourself by criticising others as not being intelligent enough to see the transcendence of comedy in great works

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I feel like laughter and fear are the two hardest emotions to convey in books.

That said, I thought that American Psycho was really successful with black / awkward humor that plays a lot with litterary tropes and conventions.

>> No.14257990

>>14256366
Unironically The Satanic Verses, one of my favorite books, also Pygmy was pretty funny too but nothing tops The Satanic Verses.

>> No.14257999

>>14256659
Yeah it's funny at times, the scene with the rowdy monkey and the surgeon was hillarious.

>> No.14258009

The two books I think I've found the most humor in while reading are A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Pale King.
Interesting that both authors committed suicide after writing some of the most humorous things I've read.

>> No.14258081

The Cyclops episode of Ulysses is the funniest thing ever written

>> No.14258296

Journey, Céline

>> No.14258379

>>14258081
post the funniest passage

>> No.14258404
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14258404

Old bearded man has got some jokes.

>> No.14258414

There came a point in the Notebook (not that one) where I was so numb to the horror that I treated it like LiveLeak and couldn't stop laughing.

>> No.14258424

Death by Zamboni
by David David Katzman

>> No.14258601

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Melville)

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What Happened by Hilary Clinton.

Actually understanding internet humor and culture, I couldn’t believe how out of touch she was (and the ridiculousness of actually writing the book). When the part about Alex Jones popped up, I had to put the book down at 1am because how hard I was laughing. Thinking about Alex Jones screeching and yelling that Hilary Clinton rapes and eats children had me in tears. I couldn’t believe she truly blamed fake news like that for her loss. Maybe it was the sheer ridiculousness of it or maybe I found it hilarious that some right wingers are dumb enough to believe Jones. Regardless, the book was excellent if you skipped all the feminist parts.

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The scene in Inherent Vice where Bigfoot brings Doc back into the morgue in the LAPD building shows him the stash of dozens of chocolate frozen bananas starts loading up and armful and making excuses that it's an addiction and his doctor said he can have them or he'd snap and Doc is just like you gotta do what you gotta do man.

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>>14256366
Early David Sedaris made me laugh out loud, though I just finished John Waters' "Mr. Know-It-All" and it produced a few audible chuckles

>> No.14258948

>>14257592
>c-c-came? oh my o-oh-oh my im im coooooommmmmmmmmmiiiiiiinnnnnnngggggggggg

>> No.14259006

>>14256366
The Disaster Artist
>when the cop confronts Tommy Wiseau and threatens to arrest him for not leaving after trying to shoot without a permit
>"I'm sorry," Tommy said, "but I disagree with you."
>the rest of the crew shit their pants and run

>> No.14259044

>>14256366

Lolita (not because of the child abuse, but because Humbert is funny as fuck and is constantly making all sorts of pretentious reamrks about people around him)

The novels of Raymond Chandler. The Long Goodbye is a nice place to start.

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14259063

coogan the absolute madman
also confederacy of dunces

>> No.14259299

books cant be funny

>> No.14259308

>>14259299
>Noooooooo

>> No.14260293

The Short Reign of Pippin IV

>> No.14260355

>>14256366
Tom Jones, Gulliver's Travels, Conspiracy Against the Human Race

>> No.14260576

Three Men in a Boat

>> No.14260649

confederacy of dunces
the strike on the factory part is the best thing I've read

>> No.14260691

>>14256873
white boy shuffle is great.
tuff had its moments but felt a bit like a retread.
reminds me I need to read sellout.

>> No.14260696

>>14256974
nah, I agree it was funny.

>> No.14260707

I’m reading The Red and the Black right now; I haven’t audibly laughed so much at a book in years. Multiple keks per chapter.
Tortilla Flat is hilarious too.

>> No.14260727

>>14260707
>Tortilla Flat
it's like the most /lit/ bro humor of all time.

A Prayer for Owen Meany was frequently and consistently hilarious which makes the end that much more of a gut-punch.

>> No.14260755

>>14256366
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

>> No.14261405

>>14260576
(to say nothing of the dog)

Montmorency!

>> No.14261456

>>14260576
I find the humor in this so goddamn cloying and formulaic. The only way anyone could find this book exceptional is if they’d never read any other drollery from that decade.

>> No.14262170

>>14256366
The Joke
It's Kundera's funniest.

>> No.14262191

>>14258009
finally found someone posting my favorite, confederacy of dunces is a masterpiece

>> No.14262199

1984

>> No.14262336

>>14256366

Don Quixote
The Trial
Confederacy of Dunces

What were your favorite funny scenes?

The hardest I ever laughed at a book was DQ Part II where Don and Pancho keep getting pranked by the Duke and Duchess who had read Part I, and they dropped a sack filled with cat and brass bells outside his window to scare him. Then the sack swings into his room and busts open accidentally, releasing all these maddened cat that attack him. The description of this scene, especially how the noise it makes is so god-awful it even surprises the people waiting in the garden who are anticipating it, bust my gut so badly I had to stop reading several times.

>> No.14262908

Currently reading Rabelais, so far it's pretty funny. The story where Panurge debates the English scholar through gestures was good

>> No.14263343

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes. La Celestina. Maybe even El perro del hortelano.

>> No.14263526

Text: "Surgery", by Anton Chekhov.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov.

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>>14256366
this

>> No.14263815

The Good Soldier Svejk easily. Journey by Celine comes second but it isn't close. Svejk is absolutely hilarious

>> No.14264513

>>14256366
My Twisted World, unironically

>> No.14264611

>>14263815
>Svejk
můj negr

>> No.14264659

Tortilla Flat is a masterpiece. I’ve never read another book that strikes such a perfect balance between being hilarious, heartwarmingly wholesome, and genuinely intelligent.

>> No.14264705

Gaddis’ JR. I’m not exaggerating when I say there’s a joke on every page.

>>14257064
Wasn’t that in The Salmon of Doubt. Reminds me of Eco’s How to Travel with a Salmon.

>> No.14264723

>>14262336
Funniest part for me was DQ getting the shit kicked out of him yet again (I think in part one somewhere) then telling Sancho he'll be fine because he has a recipe for a magical potion. He makes the potion from a bunch of rancid shit, vomits it back up all over Sancho, and gets Sancho to vomit all over the place out of disgust.
Then they leave the run-down inn in the morning and the owner insists they have to pay for destroying everything, but DQ says glorious castles don't charge. The owner starts running after them and threatening them and he finally just stops, turns around, says "You are a fool and a poor innkeeper," and rides away.

>> No.14265038

>>14256366
Anyone who doesn't answer Tristram Shandy is a brainlet.

>> No.14265100

>>14256394
>>14257678
This. Nobody can make me laugh as hard and as consistently as my main man P. G.

>> No.14265274

JR

>> No.14265290

>>14259044
Yeah I agree with Chandler

“What I like most about Idle Valley is how everyone here leads such normal, well-adjusted lives.”

>> No.14265862

Norm MacDonald's "memoir" had me genuinely laughing out loud.