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What was the book that madke you laugh the most?

>> No.14042462

>>14042419
Cartas Marcadas by Alejandro Dolina

>> No.14042472

>>14042419
Don Quixote
The one from Norm

>> No.14042478

The Code of the Woosters.

>> No.14042483

PewDiePie’s book desu

>> No.14042493

>>14042419
The non-existant knight (Italo Calvino)

>> No.14042511

The audiobook of Will Save Galaxy for Food was Good.

>> No.14042515

Das Kapital

>> No.14042555

>>14042419
dead souls by gogol

>> No.14042628

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
Flashman by Tom Hughes

>> No.14042840

>>14042419
the time machine did it by john swartzwelder

>> No.14042849

>>14042419
The moon is a harsh mistress audiobook has some fine chuckles.

>> No.14042971

>>14042511
based

>> No.14042992

>>14042419
Caligula by Albert Camus

>> No.14043032

>>14042419
The Bible

>> No.14043037

Infinite Jest

>> No.14043240

>>14042419
The Illuminatus trilogy

>> No.14043291

No Longer Human, but unironically.

>> No.14043647

Waiting For Godot made me laugh awkwardly on the bus

>> No.14043660

Julius caeser by shakespeare

>> No.14043797

>>14042840
based

>> No.14043807

Anything Celine

>> No.14043862

Just finished American Psycho, are there any other books similar to it, humorwise?

>> No.14043868

>>14042419
The Bible

>> No.14043881

some shitty jokebook my friend owned

>> No.14043892
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>> No.14043922

Lucky Jim

>> No.14043933

>>14042419
A confederacy of dunces

101 jokes for kids

>> No.14043943

Guards guards

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>>14043892
Finnegan's wake is the best book ever written. Fuck all the memes, it genuinely is non-stop "AHA!" moments when you learn what Joyce is on about. Then you run back through and analyze the passages deeper, picking up on more layers of the narrative that completely flip your expectations around. The amount of hidden puns and jokes on every page is absolutely fucking astounding. You'd imagine that because you're constantly in the highest gears of autism as you carefully analyze each passage, jokes have a hard time landing, but this isn't the case. In Joyce's absolute genius, he's completely anticipated this mindset and structured this ethereal metahumor that's constantly evolving throughout the book. It's constantly knocking you out of your detached examination, landing joke after joke after joke. The book being hard to read is just as much to do with the fact that it will make you roll around on the floor with laughter once you understand it, as much as it is to do with how difficult it is to understand it in the first place.

It's very much like that Foucault quote about escaping Hegel. Joyce is always 12 steps ahead of you with every word you read.
>We have to determine the extent to which our intellectual analysis is possibly one of Joyce's tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, laughing, waiting for us.

I find it such a shame that the Wake is considered a complete and total meme. It's easily the peak of literary human achievement, so overflowing with artistic merit and human spirit that there doesn't exist a single rival in any sensible metric.

>> No.14044104

>>14044015
Based

>> No.14044121

>>14044015
You've convinced me to actually read it. What order should I read Joyce in?

>> No.14044179

catch 22 or don kichote or some zbiór felietonów Hanny Bakuły.

>> No.14044185

all books make me laugh

>> No.14044188

>>14044121
Begin with the sumerians, continue with the Hittites, fhehel with the Egyptians, Start with the Greeks, resume with the Romans, proceed with the Christians...

>> No.14044218

>>14043037
I haven't finished it but once I got used to it's humor it's surprisingly consistently funny

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>>14044121
Aquinas --> Dubliners --> Portrait --> Ulysses --> Finnegan's Wake

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>>14044121
Dubliners -> Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -> Ulysses -> The Wake

Dubliners is a good introduction, and PAYM is a good contextualizer for the inner-workings of his mind. Ulysses ramps things up quite a bit but is still conventional enough that it comfortably sits as the middlepoint for the progression of Joyce's writing.

Even after you complete this, you will be woefully underprepared for Finnegan's Wake. It would be impossible to understate the monumental force of Joyce pouring 17 years of his best effort, holding no punches, into this novel. There's a very specific reason a large chunk of acadaemia HATES the Wake, and it's because it really is THAT complicated. To call it a singular book is doing it injustice. It's a matryoshka doll of narratives communicated through enigmatic prose.

Reading the Wake once isn't reading it at all. You read it the first time to get a basic grasp of the language. You read it a second time to become fluent in the language and to understand the completely atypical structure. By the fourth reading, you should be able to pick up on the different argots strewn throughout the work. With each successive reading, you just pull back more and more and more. It's a work so steeped in steganographic structure that it evokes this sense that it's secretly a fractal, and perhaps there is some impossible-to-grasp meta concept that binds everything together, and you keep looking for it.

If the Arabic prose of the Quran was one million fold as good as Muslims say that it is, it still would not hold a candle the sheer beauty of Finnegan's Wake.

Then you take a step back and remember that the author is a 20th century proto brap-poster, and it clicks that the Wake is the atomic shitpost to end all shitposts, in that it makes all critically-acclaimed earnest efforts in literature (Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, etc.) look like they were half-assed shitposts themselves. Joyce's final act as a blind, dying man was to bitch the fuck out of humanity's collective intellectuals so hard that our fragile minds can barely even begin to comprehend it. It's in that finality that you might be able to begin to understand what it means to undertake reading the Wake.

>> No.14044380

>>14042419
The toothbrush, by Jorge Díaz
>I will park it in the forbidden direction!
>What thing?
>My paraplegic father!

>> No.14044389

>>14043933
MY VALVE

>> No.14044485

>>14044363
I think Finnegan's Wake is ridiculous but this is one of the most well written, concise, and effectively persuasive posts I have ever seen.

>> No.14044506

>hitch hikers guide
>gullivers travels
>confederacy of dunces
>gravity's rainbow
>infinite kek
>don quixote