/lit/ - Literature

Tristram Shandy, or maybe Despair by Nabokov

>>15469557
My snout grazes over your moistened diaper. Your cries of ecstasy motivate me to continue on, my whiskers twitching with equal excitement. I open my mouth-- ever so slightly and bite a thicker part of your diaper. The crinkling orchestra of my fangs lightly pushing up and down on the material ignites my primal urge.

The Spiffy Adventures of McConey

The White Rainbow had some fun moments. Headcrash did as well.

>>15469557
The Hypersphere. You guys wrote that shit, right?

A lot of DFW stuff makes me laugh

Catch-22
A Confederacy of dunces
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

>>15469958
>catch 22
>funny
Jesus

The anatomy of melancholy: What it is, it's Causes, and Several Cures of it. divided into three partitions, each with their several sections members and subsections. Philosophically, Historically, and Medicinally; Opened and Cut Up. With a Satyrical Preface.

>>15470356
You’ve got flies in your eyes

GR or Catch 22

In retrospect probably A Tale of a Tub, though it wasn't funny when I was reading it or for a while after.

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

>>15470428
Was this the only part that made you laugh?

>>15470447
Gravitys rainbow?

>>15469557
Not a book, but the Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved by Hunter S. Thompson is hilarious.

>>15469557
A Confederacy of Dunces.

>>15470438
kek

I can't coom without thinking "For this relief much thanks" like Leo Bloom.

>>15469557
Invitation to a beheading
the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
the first one was the better book
the second one was the louder laugh

>>15469576
based

>>15469557
Candide was a fun read page to page

>>15469557
epicene and volpone
confederacy of dunces was pretty funny too

Honestly, the funniest books I've read are collections of newspaper comics: Calvin & Hobbes, Pearls Before Swine, Peanuts, The Boondocks, Red & Rover, etc.

Fallen Words by Tatsumi Yoshihiro also gets an honorable mention because it brilliantly and humorously adapts rakugo into manga form

>>15471368
Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or cavilling in jest against him. Nay, do not silently reproach him in consequence of others' censure, nor employ your wit in foolish disapproval or false accusation. For, should Democritus Junior prove to be what he professes, even a kinsman of his elder namesake, or be ever so little of the same kidney, it is all up with you: he will become both accuser and judge of you in his petulant spleen, will dissipate you in jest, pulverize you with witticisms, and sacrifice you, I can promise you, to the God of Mirth.
Again I warn you against cavilling, lest, while you culumniate or disgracefully disparage Decmocritus Junior, who has no animosity against you, you should hear from some judicious friend the very words the people of Abdera heard of old from Hippocrates, when they held their well-deserving and popular fellow-citizen to be a madman: "Truly, it is you, Democritus, that are wise, while the people of Abdera are fools and madmen." You have no more sense than the people of Abdera. Having given you this warning in a few words, O reader who employ your liesure ill, farewell.

>>15469557
Portnoy's Complaint

>>15473485
>My, look at the coffee plantations on that one

>>15470356
Are you saying that you think Heller’s humour is poor? Or are you a faggot who wants to pretend that the book isn’t comedic as well as tragic?

>>15469557
le bourgeoise gentilhomme. not a big reader tho

gravitys rainbow made me actually laugh a few times

>that bit with slothrop eating the sweets
reads like some /int/ pisstake of brits, it's great

>>15469958
>A Confederacy of dunces
Was fun for like the first 20 pages. Then boring as hell.

It's been a long time since I've read it but i really liked Three Men in a Boat.

>>15470356
You got filtered.

>>15474649
Filtered.

>>15469557
The Sisters Brothers y Patrick DeWitt

>>15469557
Don Quixote, Pickwick Papers, and they say Tristram Shandy but I didn't really take a regular humor from it such as the former two. I definitely need to revisit it soon and see how my mood has changed. Confederacy has already been mentioned a bunch of times.

>>15469557
Happiness can only be accompanied by a solemn renunciation.

>>15469557
Avatar: The Last Airbender

Joseph Andrews by Fielding.

>>15474730
This is the only good book list in this thread.

>>15470356
You're just pissed you'll never be able to get crab apples for your cheeks

>>15469557
confederacy of dunces. ignatius is 4chan

>>15469576
post more please

>>15469557
Lucky Jim

>>15469557
Catch-22, Confederacy of Dunces or Gravity's Rainbow.

The Good Soldier Svejk, easily. Also one of the greatest books of the 20th century. It made me laugh out loud constantly.
Other really funny books I've read include Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, Celine's Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, anything by Salman Rushdie and Kafka's America.

>>15469557
The first page of Finnegans Wake before I gave up
The Crying of Lot 49

Really any book with its own language

I laugh when pancho shit he pants

Apathy and other small victories

Definitely I am a Cat

Meitei had me cackling several times. Such a great lad

>>15470356
Jewish humour is kino my man.

>>15469557
Candide was hilarious

Finnegan's Wake

>>15469557
>FUNNIEST book
> a quality read
The Inimitable Jeeves
Leave it to PSmith
Carry On, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves

>>15470356
catch-22 is the only book i've ever laughed out loud at.

>>15469557
I've read this whole and Don Quixote is only mentioned once. You faggots deserve to get gassed.

>>15477403
This

>>15474510
hah

>>15469557
The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh. Not as good as Brideshead Revisited, but much funnier.

>>15476637
I've heard that's good. I must get around to cracking open my copy someday.

Definitely Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon takes it (and by extension, himself) at times, but it's largely an often hilarious "fuck you" on a bunch of different levels. Yes, on one of these levels he is saying it to you, individually, as the person reading his book. It's so much more than that, but I've often had to put the book down, unironically fucking flabbergasted by the fucking audacity of some of the shit he writes. It's not like a "hehe man say funny thing" kind of funny book, if those even exist, but it's fucking hilarious.

>>15469557
The Master and Margarita. Both in a black comedy/satire kind of way, but also in a absurd talking-cat-on-a-chandelier-in-a-shootout-with-the-police kind of way

City of prodigies by Eduardo Mendoza

Catch 22 is the only book that has made me laugh. Never finished it tho.

>>15469557
Probably the Ciaphus Cain novels, but only if you get a lot of warhammer40K's jargon and lore

>>15469557
The Twelve Chairs
The Little Golden Calf

Both by Ilf and Petrov

unironically crime and punishment

>>15469557
three men in a boat

>>15479358
how so? Just bought it

>>15469557
wojna polsko ruska
catch 22
that chabon book about jews on alaska
dead souls by gogol
don kichote

bump

>>15469557
Notes from Underground.

>>15469557
My diary desu

>>15473357
>>15477403
This

Discworld is pure comedy. I have never laughed as hard at any media except the Agents of Cracked.com series when I was 12.

Look towards the non-fiction autobiography/memoir category. People are most cheeky referencing their own lives.
Steve-O's memoir was funny, if you're interested in life-threatening drug addiction this is great, Limmy's autobiography too.

Bernhard's Extinction

Kafka's The Trial is good absurdist humor

Gargantua and pantagruel
Confederacy of dunces

>>15477385
The only real answer.

>>15479124
The Flashman series is a hilarious plus he's pretty much 4chan the character (racist, misogynistic, a complete coward and a cuckold)

Northanger Abbey
Moby Dick

>>15481508
I'm considering ordering this, but I'm afraid I won't get the humour and satire. Is there anything I should keep in mind so not to miss out on anything?

>>15469557
American Pyscho is really funny and a good read. The scene where he kills a kid in a zoo is absolutely hilarious but would have been too edgy for the movie.

>>15469557
'Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)' genuinely had me laughing so hard it hurt.

>>15482248
North hanger is a good shout actually

>>15469557

A Confederacy of Dunces.