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funniest authors? Anonymous Sat Oct 23 07:09:40 2010 No.1229547 [Reply] [Original]

<---this motherfucker.

He can make me laugh out loud just with the way he uses language. A lot of the events in his books aren't even funny by themselves, what's funny is how he relates them to you. Are there any newer/young authors like this I should check out?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 07:16:40 2010 No.1229554 I read the first few chapters, got bored and switched to fantasy. U mad?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 09:56:40 2010 No.1229684 Not really all that new, but Vonnegut is pretty funny. And Catch-22 is my favorite book ever.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 10:09:40 2010 No.1229697 >>1229554 nerd detected

>>	not anon Sat Oct 23 19:17:40 2010 No.1230676 File: 102 KB, 320x240, batguy.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gore Vidale's "Creation" is funny and you might learn something. Christopher Moore's "Lamb" is hilarious. Anything by David Sedaris

>>	juxtaposer !6eo0Cr.dwA Sat Oct 23 19:26:40 2010 No.1230697 I'm seconding David Sedaris and Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut has a way of making you incredibly depressed while still being funny. Breakfast of Champions is both hilarious and depressing.

Anonymous Sat Oct 23 19:30:40 2010 No.1230704

I must be odd, but I almost never got a laugh out of Vonnegut. Damn good books (I've read all of them), but the humor or smiles were few and far in between. I guess that's why I have trouble trusting people when they talk about, "Laugh out loud antics," and whatnot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 19:42:40 2010 No.1230729 >>1229697 Nigga you read books. Shut the fuck up.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 19:44:40 2010 No.1230732 Best book of all time. I love that scene where Yossarian is piloting the plane and it's getting hit by flak, and there's just fucking Aarfy in the corner laughing his head off, so Yossarian beats the shit out of Aarfy. Had me in tears.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 23 23:32:40 2010 No.1231290 Look for The Manuel of Detection, OP. The Manual of Detection.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 06:39:40 2010 No.1232175 >>1230676 I wholeheartedly support these suggestions.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 06:42:40 2010 No.1232177 Not a book, but you'd probably like Achewood.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 07:24:40 2010 No.1232211 bumping a good thread with a good guy op

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 07:26:40 2010 No.1232213 >>1229684 Vonnegut is the best recommendation if you like Heller yeah, they were writing buddies I believe. I recommend Richard Brautigan, Spike Milligan and also Woody Allen's short prose.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 24 07:30:40 2010 No.1232219 Washington Irving

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