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Has a book ever made you legitimately laugh out loud?

>> No.16555993

>>16555967
In Crime and Punishment there is a scene where Svidrigailov (if that's how one spells it) talks about annoying Germans. As someone living near the border with Germany, I deal with a lot of annoying Germans, so I appreciated that passage, and indeed it made me laugh.

>> No.16555998

>>16555967
yes.

>> No.16555999

Yes but only when i was a kid reading adult books. Don't remember what exactly.

>> No.16556023

The scene in Pride and Prejudice where Mr Bennet stops Mary's dull piano playing by saying 'You've delighted us long enough'.

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>>16555967

>> No.16556107

>>16556061
Cute
>>16556023
This made me laugh too. Austen knew how to include some decent comedic elements

>> No.16556113

>>16555967
The First Book of Oblomov and Dead Souls both made me laugh a good bit.

>> No.16556124

>>16555967

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

>> No.16556126

>>16555967
The scene in American Psycho where Bateman goes in to the Jewish cafe

>> No.16556236

>>16555967
Yes. Voyage au bout de la Nuit and Bronze Age Mindset.

>> No.16556252

>>16555967
there was one stretch in JR where I was laughing at every page, very funny book

>> No.16556278

TBK
Any chapter with the father.

>> No.16556293

>>16555967
Re-reading Don Quixote right now and pretty much every other page has something that either makes me smile or actually laugh out loud, whether it's something that happens, something that's said or just something in the way that Cervantes writes.

>> No.16556314

>>16555967
Every Tom Sharpe novel ever

>> No.16556505

>>16555967
Don Quixote for sure

>> No.16556531

>>16555967
It was one of those retarded slice of life novels for teenagers, that I liked when I was, well, a teenager. The part that made me laugh specifically was the fact that the grandma of the main character tried to force a wire for those fixed landline phones into a mobile phone. Idk why did it make me laugh so hard, I was literally rolling on the floor.
I still love the book though.

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16556540

This mofo

>> No.16557108

Normal People by Rooney when Jamie says the champagne glasses look like gravy boats and everyones laughing at how stupid he is rather than the joke. I thought it was pretty funny

>> No.16557118

das Kapital

>> No.16557142

Every goddamn page in Catch-22

>> No.16557218

Every time Behemoth was mentioned in The Master and The Margarita for about 1/3 of the book