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ITT books that are laugh out loud funny. The only two off the top of my head are I Am America (And so can you!), and Catch-22 (orr invented trolling)

Any other really funny books?

>> No.1010610

Diogenes invented trolling

>> No.1010611
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This.

I laughed an awful lot.

>> No.1010614

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

>obvious answer

>> No.1010616

i laughed a lot during the catcher in the rye when i read it in 7th grade

>> No.1010618

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is hilarious once you realize all Duke and his attorner ever do is troll everyone they meet.

>> No.1010620

and one flew over the cuckoo's nest mcmurphy is hilarious

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>> No.1010622

>>1010618

*attorney

>> No.1010626

The I Am America audiobook is good. Has Amy Sedaris.

Read Portnoy's Complaint.

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Anything by Bill Bryson.

David Sedaris is funny too, because sometimes I am a hipster and have Shameful Hipster Urges.

I liked 'Non Campus Mentis,' but that doesn't really count because it's just a compilation of quotations.

>> No.1010641

>>1010631

Good old Bill.
He was my first choice too-- reading Bryson is like sitting down with a bowl of warm soup.

Also, Douglas Adams.

>> No.1010656

>>1010621
>>1010631
Title and cover, respectively, make me want to read these.

>>1010641
Also, I didn't find Douggy A. "laugh-out-loud" funny, but THHGTTG is definitely humorous is a calmer sense. Then again I don't drink tea or go to pubs, so maybe I just missed just one or two small things.

>> No.1010666

Ambrose Bierce

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This thing is packed with jokes. From high brow to low brow(sometimes both at the same time).

>> No.1012660

I find John Moore's works [e.g. Bad Prince Charlie, The Unhandsome Prince] pretty funny

Peter David's Sir Apropos of Nothing was pretty funny

and while I would never suggest reading any of the books for humor, I think some of Jim Butcher's witty one-liners absolutely laugh out loud funny

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Saunders is always lulzy

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>>1012674
See also: Everything by Jack Pendarvis

>> No.1012680

Three Men On A Boat

>> No.1012685

>>1010599
milo is funnier than orr imo

>> No.1012713

catch-22
don quixote
confederacy of dunces
puckoon
botchan
first two books in the hitchiker's guide series.

>> No.1012714

the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

>> No.1012718

Schrodinger's Cat.

>> No.1012726

OP

Read 'Forest Gump'

I know the movie sucked a bit, but I laughed well past crying at some parts of that book