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Anyone know of a classic that is hilarious? I'm in need of a laugh.

>> No.11113008

>>11113004
The Good Soldier Svejk
Envy by Yuri Olesha

>> No.11113011
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Don Quixote

>> No.11113017

catch-22

>> No.11113027

The Nose

>> No.11113040

>>11113004
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

>> No.11113044

Chekhov's Cherry Orchard
As desperate as it's laughable

>> No.11113046

The Carriage by Gogol.

>> No.11113048

>>11113040
OP here. I've been feeling like taking a dip into the 18th century again. Maybe I shall.

>> No.11113050

>>11113004
Catch 22

>> No.11113051

>>11113004
There will be people in this thread who are going to say A Confederacy of Dunces - just ignore them. Here, I'll sum it up for you:
>DUDE FARTS
>DUDE HOT DOGS
>LMAO

>> No.11113054

>>11113004
Confederacy of Dunces

Also Dead Souls by Gogol. Gogols a good one, already been mentioned>>11113046
>>11113027 twice in this respect.

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11113065

seriously in need of a good laugh

>> No.11113079

>>11113004
Finnegans Wake

>> No.11113083

>>11113051
this guy is a fucking idiot. do not listen.

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>>11113011

>> No.11113088

>>11113004
The Frogs

>> No.11113090

>>11113040
The film was amazing (although I was stoned). Haven't read the book. The premise alone is hilarious.

>> No.11113091

>>11113083
No fuck you, that book is a pile of shit.
>hurr isn't it so funny how everyone is incompetent at everything

>> No.11113096

>>11113004
A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

>> No.11113103

>>11113087
>chortling mad with laughter almost every chapter!

>> No.11113109

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was pretty funny to me. The part where he satirizes how doctors speak could have been written today.

>> No.11113149

>>11113087
It is funny as shit but I wouldn't degrade myself by making a post like that. I just hoped my favorite page of the book would give a fine impression. You know, let the work speak for itself. Or come out looking like you're on the spectrum by trying to articulate why, like that fool.

>> No.11113234

>>11113051
Bait

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>>11113004
Pic related if you find autismo funny.

>> No.11114017

I thought the narration in what I’ve read of Moby Dick is hysterical. Ishmael’s just a Grumpasaurus Rex

>> No.11114057

>>11113004
Gaius Getronius' Satyricon

Fucking hilarious. 10/10

>> No.11114066

>>11114057
Fuck. I meant *Petronius'*
(i'm just a little drunk)

>> No.11114109

>>11113091
>written by a NEET who lived with his mom and killed himself
>not /lit/core

>> No.11114114

>>11113234
>>11113083
Care to extrapolate?

>> No.11114178

>>11113051
>How dare a comedy be funny!

>> No.11114277

Honestly parts of Legacy of Totalitarianism are fucking hilarious if you're willing to brave the density

>> No.11114296

>>11113004
Three men in a boat

>> No.11114314

To be honest? Mark Twain.

>> No.11114335

Journey to the end of the Night is hilarious

>> No.11114342

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

Anything by George Saunders.

>> No.11114352

The Ginger Man is comedy kino

>> No.11114392

>>11113004
I was surprised to see quite a bit of metaphorical ball busting in greek philosophy.

>> No.11114425

Women by Bukowski

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Pickwick Papers

>> No.11114500

Candide is pretty funny

>> No.11114501

>>11113046
And The Nose

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>> No.11114511

the castle is pretty funny and not as depressing as other kafka books

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>>11113004
The second half of Notes from the Underground is pretty funny, unless you identify with him too much, in which case it's just painful

>> No.11114513

>>11113079
/thread

>> No.11114516

>>11114507
11/10 funniest LARP out

>> No.11114518

Read the Discworld series if you want to kek

>> No.11114519

pinecone's V.

>> No.11114673

>>11113004
Why are they so smug? The knowledge that they are going to kill everyone onboard? What's their plan?

>> No.11114683

>>11113087
based redditor

>> No.11114688

>>11114673
Look at the planes. They are symbols of wojak.

>tfw your pilot is a psychopathic toad
>tfw you're depressed

>> No.11114730

Vonnegut's books
>inb4 reddit

>> No.11114800

>>11114057
>>11114066
Oh yes. I was so disappointed to learn we only have less than half of the work available today. I knew it was fragmentary, but I had hoped we were missing a couple of lines here and there, not most of it. Especially the parts near the end, and those are missing the most context. I still can't believe it's gone forever.
The Golden Ass too, right until the final chapter.

>> No.11114857

It looks like very few people in this thread know what the classics are.

>> No.11114858

>>11114496
Such a nice read. Very, dare I say it, comfy.

>> No.11114871

>>11114858
Is it frowned upon these days to find works comfy?

>> No.11115232

>>11113004
Kingsley Amis. Either Lucky Jim or One Fat Englishman--

>> No.11115236

>>11114871
Yes. Literature is seriuz buzness.

>> No.11115247

>>11114296
this, obviously
it was funny when it was written and it is still funny now

>> No.11115280

echoing Catch 22 and Confederacy of Dunces. Celine's Death on Credit is pretty funny.

>> No.11115286

My diary if you like tragicomedies.

>> No.11115298

>>11113087
I always imagine the guys who recommend Don Quixote in funny book threads are the biggest tryhard neckbeards. The kind of people who wear t-shirts with "hilarious" mathematical equations on them.

>> No.11115406

>>11113017
This

>> No.11115415

>>11115298
>t-shirts with "hilarious" mathematical equations
What's this? Post an example.

>> No.11115446

Notes from the underground
Laughed all day

>> No.11115458

>>11115415
U > I ÷ 3
Solve for I
:^3

>> No.11115473

>>11113011
this

>> No.11115484

Northanger Abbey

>> No.11115515

>>11113054
>Confederacy of Dunces
This. Fucking funniest novel of all time.

>> No.11115570

>>11113109
Did you read all of Tom Jones? The length is the only thing that has put me off reading it.

>> No.11115598

>>11115458
U*3 > I
I < (U+U+U)

>> No.11115615

>>11113004
Wilt by Tom Sharpe

>> No.11115622

>>11113091
Hating on A Confederacy of Dunces is a sure sign of a bad reader, unable to understand irony,completely uncultured, and with a limited vocabulary.

>> No.11115626

>>11115280
> Death on Credit

This. Had me belly-laughing in many sections. Not a book for everyone though. Kind of disgusting proto-Houellebecq.

>> No.11115629

>>11115615
I have this and I need to read it.

>> No.11115631

>>11115598
It’s
I <3 U
you autist

>> No.11115645

>>11114512
>guy is a dick to him at a bar
>he sets out on a grandiose plot to embarrass him by standing in his way on the street, spending what little money he has one nice clothes because the guy is a high up in society and he has to look his nicest on the day of retribution
>Literally can't do it until one day he just decides to go for it
>stands in his way, literally only bumps his shoulder
>he barely notices
>UM goes home and dances and sings because he finally stuck it to Chad Chadovich Chadikov
Laughed my ass off at this part desu

>> No.11115647

>>11115631
I <3 U too anon

>> No.11115649

>>11115570
Tom Jones is great, really fun. It's the original giant rollercoaster of a novel in four hundred sizzling chapters, with some hot gypsies thrown in.
It's got that great 18th century openness about life, sex and relationships which petered out under the victorians.
At the start of each section Fielding does this 4th wall digression where he explains why the plot is the way it is and why you're a pleb for liking the soap opera

>> No.11115653

>>11113004
Pride and Prejudice is pretty hilarious believe it or not. Jane Austen was truly /our gal/ and an incel to boot

>> No.11115658

>>11113087
"chortle" has to be the most reddit word in the dictionary

>> No.11115670

>>11115615
>>11115629
Is pretty good. One of the funniest books I've ever read.

>>11113004
Vargas LLosa - Pantaleon y las visitadoras.

>> No.11115679

>>11113051

I won't say this this post is absolutely correct, but I wholeheartedly agree with it. Confederacy of Dunces was a huge disappointment. I found it thoroughly unfunny and uninteresting.

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Not sure if considered "classic" but pic related always has me giggling.

>> No.11115684

>>11113011
this always makes me giggle:

Diálogo entre Babieca y Rocinante

B. ¿Cómo estáis, Rocinante, tan delgado?
R. Porque nunca se come, y se trabaja.
B. Pues, ¿qué es de la cebada y de la paja?
R. No me deja mi amo ni un bocado.

B. Andad, señor, que estáis muy mal criado,
pues vuestra lengua de asno al amo ultraja.
R. Asno se es de la cuna a la mortaja.
¿Queréislo ver? Miradlo enamorado.

B. ¿Es necedad amar? R. No es gran prudencia.
B. Metafísico estáis. R. Es que no como.
B. Quejaos del escudero. R. No es bastante.

¿Cómo me he de quejar en mi dolencia,
si el amo y escudero o mayordomo
son tan rocines como Rocinante?

>> No.11115708

>>11115653
>and an incel to boot
I knew she was a bit of a loner, but incel is a stretch

>> No.11115713

>>11115626
I'm not that anon, but I read both, well, I read "Journey" twice, but Death on Credit, I had to give up because the middle section is such a mad rant. Honestly it's a weak book compared to the first... starts out strong, but you get the impression he was losing his mind as he wrote it.

>> No.11115760

>>11115708
She had an active social life and a few suitors. She just didn't get married. There's a decent theory she loved writing so much she was worried a husband might make her stop

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>>11114858

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Gogol is still so fucking biting and hilarious in his sarcasm, all his writing has made me bend over with laughter, even tho i don't know anything about provincial Russia 200 years ago.

This is Dead Souls, first page, no spoilers

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>90 replies
>No Lolita
This fucking board, I swear to Christ
>>11114335
This is also correct

>> No.11117291

>>11117238
Nabokov is funny and also extremely comfy imo

>> No.11117377

>>11115622
Don't delude yourself friend, every pleb on the block loves that book.

>> No.11117388

>>11113004
what the fuck is that image?

>> No.11117405

>>11113017
First that came to mind. Heller in general really

>> No.11117458

Some of Poe's comedy is pretty damn funny, it's kinda sad his horror work is all most people know him for

>> No.11117503

>>11115515
'The Crusade for Moorish Dignity' banner makes me chortle every time I think on it.

>> No.11117763

>>11113087
Imagine trying this hard to look intelligent. Cringe levels are off the charts.

I mean, there was some moderately amusing stuff in it, but it wasn't that funny.

>> No.11117785

>>11113040
Currently reading, hilarious shit

>> No.11117787

>>11113004
kafka

>> No.11117923

>>11114519
Go to bed Tom

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I read this one again for the third or fourth time aloud to my gf and was surprised by how funny some stories are when you take your time with them. The humor can easily be lost when read in silence.

>> No.11118809

Luigi Pirandello - six characters ...

This play is a riot ;D

>> No.11118834

>>11113004
Valis

>> No.11118962

100 posts and nobody's mentioned the Decameron. Had me frothing at the mouth the first time I read it.
Chaucer is hilarious too. Read the Miller's Tale.


>>11114296
I found the humor in this particularly cloying and dated. If that counts as a classic, you're better off reading Wodehouse.

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>100 posts
>no Rabelais
I bet you cowards don't even wipe your arse with the neck of a goose

>> No.11119545

Uncle's dream by Dostoevsky is a pretty short read, but it's great. Most of his novellas are disgustingly sorrowful or hilarious, he didn't know how to do something in between.

>> No.11119587

>>11113051
If hot dogs are a euphemism for penis, then this could be an Aristophanes play.

>> No.11119617

>>11119545

Dostoevsky has the same relationship to moderation as a goldfish has to table-tennis. He might occasionally see it taking place but he has no desire to participate.

>> No.11119618

>>11113011
This. I genuinely laughed out loud while reading Don Quijote.

>> No.11119636

>>11119618

Yeah Don Q. is pretty funny. e.g. When DQ first joins up with Sancho Panza and explains SP will certainly get an island to rule before too long. SP gets worried and says that he's married and whilst his wife has many admirable qualities he doesn't think she's quite up to being a queen. No problem says DQ, she can just be a countess instead.

Or the bit where he's testing his armour and he breaks it first time so he remakes it and then carefully doesn't test it again, haha :)

That is like the bit in Titanic where Jack is chained up and Rose is going to chop him free so he says OK make a practice cut, then see if you can hit the same mark again. She's about a foot off. "That's enough practice cuts," says Jack.

>> No.11119656

>>11113011
thanks for breaking my neck asshole

>> No.11119682

>>11119636
that was genuinely funny haha lol

>> No.11120051

>>11115280
i didnt finish death on credit. it got old super super fast

>> No.11120168

>>11113087
>crazy shit to more crazy amazeballs shit!

>> No.11120210

>>11115713
I loved them both. You should try finishing it.

> when he comes back from England and all he knows how to say in English is how to calm the retard down and he's hoping no one will test him

>> No.11120217

>>11113008
Second for Svejk

>> No.11120640

>>11117168
Sounds like an American middle class hotel

>> No.11121019

Wuthering Heights gets me good

>walking along in the den
>suddenly something appears in front of your face
>naturally reach out hands to catch whatever just fell
>its a fucking baby
>wtf
>oh god dammit its the baby of the people i fucking hate
>look up
>its dad (fuck him) tried to throw it off and kill it
>i didnt fucking let it happen accidentally

>> No.11121339

How has nobody said the Canterbury Tales, you illiterates.

>> No.11121377

>>11115247
Correct.

>>11118962
Incorrect.

>> No.11121792

>>11113004
Aristophanes

>> No.11121830

>>11113011
>Leyendo El Quijote en la lengua de los herejes

>> No.11121853

>>11119502
I've read that section aloud to many people and they found it absolutely disgusting, not even funny (personally I loved it).

My theory is that in a post-Christian society, such a scene is repulsive because it is so brazenly crude, whereas for Christians, they can laugh at such a foul scene because they recognize that there is no great sin in an oversized child wiping his ass with a goose's neck, therefore it's perfectly fine to laugh at such an absurdly funny scene.

>>11120210
Not going to lie, that section is hilarious, and all the other stories about his youth are as well, but the way he rants about how miserable his life is back in Paris just seemed to drag on. I reckon I got about 2/3 into the book before I gave up. It's irrefutable that the first novel is much better.

>> No.11121861

>>11121830
>Chicano pretending he has culture

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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

(I like this new cover, will be good to replace the copy I lent out and never got back.)

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>>11115622
this.

surprised no one has said pic related.

>> No.11122817

>>11113004
The 120 Days of Sodom

>> No.11123037

>>11121861
t. chicano q ni siquiera sabe castellano

>> No.11124315

>>11113004

The Master and Margarita - I'm only 100 pages in and I have a constant grin on my face.

>> No.11124657

>>11121853
Fair enough. I really liked it and felt I could relate. It is the proto-Houellebecq NEET novel.

Also, Rabelais was a Mason.

>> No.11124699

>>11114342
> The House of Mirth

Left me depressed for a week