/lit/ - Literature

Southern Gothic is good. Flannery O'Connor

This mad lad right here.

>>18854664
fool by christopher moore

>>18854664
This but Confederacy of Dunces. I donated my copy. I think the last legitimately funny book I read was... never.

>>18854664
The Importance of Being Earnest.
Only funny book I've read so far and it is comedy perfected.

Op here thank you.
I wrote down all the books...
Any infographics on this?

>>18854820
Why didn't you think Catch-22 was funny? I thought it was hilarious.

>>18855284
I like Ford's nursery rhyme books. Murder mysteries set in 90's England about fairy tale characters. Book about Humpty Dumpty called The Big Over Easy.

>>18855324
*Fforde

>>18854664
catch-22 was okay but I didn't think it was funny either. entertaining, sure
early Aldous Huxley. tears running down my face funny. forget which one, but specifically the protagonist falling down a hill and trying to retain some grace cracked me right up

>>18854664
I find Pynchon hilarious, particularly gravity’s rainbow and Vineland. But I also thought catch 22 was funny. But I also read it in high school

>>18855445
Pynchon and Catch-22 are not actually funny. They're good books, but they're pseud funny. The only books that made me laugh have been Antkind and Norm's book.

>>18855457
Oh come now. Any gum chum? That’s good!

>>18855284
Idk thought it was boring
Also thank u for pic

>>18854664
don't call yourself a fan of the anime if you haven't read the manga . . .

>>18855636
Cringe

Im surprised no one has said JR by William Gaddis yet

>>18855594
oh so you're retarded

>>18855284
This list must be a joke. None of this shit is funny. Stop posturing like rich intellectuals because you claim that twelfth night is full of humour

>>18855284
jasper fforde is awful

most literature classics are funny.

Lucky Jim is the only finny book.

>>18854664
Notes from the Underground. Not even trying to be edgy the part where he's making an ass out of himself then he won't pay the guy then the girl comes. Great autism humor

>>18857642
>twelfth night
>not funny
pick one

women

>>18857267
care to extrapolate?

>>18855284
>>18857642
Wodehouse is hilarious. The only really funny parts of Master and Margarita were with the cat I thought.

Everything with Jeeves and Bertie by Wodehouse is hilarious. Right Ho Jeeves and the Code of the Woosters are probably the best, or at least the place to start.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is very funny.
John Swartzwelder has a bunch of really stupid but really funny books. Multiple laughs per page type-stuff.

>>18854664
Gravity's Rainbow

>>18859579
Based

>>18854664
The Sot-weed Factor
Giles Goat-boy
Ratner's Star
At Swim-Two-Birds
Midnight's Children (not exactly a comedy but still funny)
Don Quixote
Gravity's Rainbow (again not exactly a comedy but still funnier than most books)

>>18855284
I think you have to really enjoy satire to appreciate catch-22. I found it hilarious but most people aren’t cynical assholes like I am.

>>18861407

Not necessary of course, but having been in the Air Force myself you can really see where the humor sprouts from which really helped me enjoy it. It takes all the absurdities of military life and cranks it up.

>>18854664
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. (Spoiler: it was a good day)

>>18861470
GIVE EVERYONE EATS

pro tip Major — deCoverley’s first name is cunt.

>>18854664
Dead Souls. Anything Gogol really

>read Catch-22 in my late teens
>boring and overrated
>read Catch-22 in my early twenties
>consistently laugh-out-loud funny
I cannot explain why this is, because I certainly didn't feel like I "matured" any between those two points.

>>18855422
Interested if you recall the title of the huxley book

>>18861762
Better understanding of the world and by then you have faced various levels of bureaucracy.

>>18855284
Where's Forest Gump?

>>18861762
>>18862109
Same read it in high school and thought it was pretentious bullshit. Reread it in my late twenties after experiencing the absolute absurdity of this world and thought it was absolutely fantastic