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Has a book ever made you laugh, /lit/? Which one was it?

Is television humor/satire (body language, emotions etc.) better than lit humor?

>> No.14542315

>>14542285
The Elementary Particles has some genuinely funny parts, as if you are talking with a /pol/ user. But thinking about it, it's hard to find good books focused on humour. Maybe they are not the best media for it.

>> No.14542346

A Confederacy of Dunces rent my sides

>> No.14542349

>>14542285
The description of women in Man in the High Castle made me chuckle

>> No.14542357

Don Quixote is p funny

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for patricians only

>> No.14542410

Catch-22

>> No.14542490

>>14542357
This, Gravity’s Rainbow, and The Master and Margarita are all books that had me chuckling or laughing at parts.

>> No.14542492

Lolita is pretty funny in parts

>> No.14542495

The hardest I've ever laughed at a work of literature is actually in Shakespeare's Henry V. It's the scene towards the end, after the Battle of Agincourt, when the Welsh soldier is wearing a leek, and Pistol mocks him for it, so the Welsh soldier keeps hitting Pistol with a club until Pistol eats the leek raw. I cackled out loud reading it.

>> No.14542517

mark e smith autobiography

>And he was one of those pseudo-intellectuals as well; thinking he’s bright reading Crime and Punishment on the tour bus, not realizing that everybody reads it at the age of fifteen.

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>>14542285
made me laugh so hard on the bus that i had tears running down my cheeks

>> No.14542592

>>14542285
Thomas Mann is far funnier than most people give him credit for.

>> No.14542607

Lifters guide to the galaxy

Dont @ me

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>>14542285
The chapter with the prison church service in Resurrection.

>> No.14542650

>>14542285
She has such a coy smile, I bet she loves thinking about people cooming about her but that some of them feel bad or even try their best not to do it because of her. I bet she thinks about that randomly when she accidentally sits on the broken dryer in the basement.

>> No.14542767

>>14542410
Yup worked for me aswell

>> No.14542852
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This made me guffaw on single every page.

>> No.14542861

>>14542852
Sorry for the slurred typing, a bit buzzed atm

>> No.14542886

Ham on Rye, esp the chapter about his English class with the tard at the back of the classroom fapping over the teacher and the pretty boy killing himself.

>> No.14542900

>>14542285
Plato's Theaetetus

>> No.14542979

>>14542410
Feel bad about the fact that this never clicked with me. I can acknowledge how clever and humorous the writing is but I always get bored after 100 pages or so.

>> No.14543003

>>14542495
Some of the silly parts in Comedy of Errors made me laugh. Twelfth Night too. What's Shakespeare's funniest play?

>> No.14543055

>>14542852
i've seen this for a few years now. is it actually good? i imagine it to read somewhere beetween douglas coupland (maybe just because of the cover) and John Dies at the end

>> No.14543068

>>14542285
Yes, most memorable:
Confederacy of Dunces
Vonnegut
Bret Easton Ellis

>> No.14543116

>>14542285
John Dies at the End, also the antics between goblin and one-eye in The Black Company books had me chuckling

>> No.14543239

John Swartzwelder writes really stupid but really funny novels.
Woodhouse is my boy as well
>>14543068
>Bret Easton Ellis
Agreed, American Psycho is really funny. Film didn't come close to doing it justice, but that had to be expected from a couple of dykes adapting it

>> No.14543309

>>14543116
>John Dies at the End

>> No.14543322

>>14543309
Yeah, that's what I said.

>> No.14543329

>nobody has mentioned oscar wilde's plays
Maybe I'm a retard but I was howling half of the time reading those things

>> No.14543367

The code of the Woosters has me laughing out loud at least twice a chapter.

>> No.14543374

the bit in LIBRA when lee oswald is getting reprimanded by the prison warden and gets hit on the collarbone with the baton and then lies on the floor pissing himself.

im not an edgelord, i think it was genuinely hilarious, obviously by design.

>> No.14543408

The Discworld books are always good for a sensible chuckle.

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>>14542285

>> No.14543477

i probably laughed the most reading Wilt by Tom Sharpe

>> No.14543508

>Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy"
>in the first couple of paragraphs, Boethius is writing poetry and Philosophy herself appears to him and immediately denounces the Muses of poetry as sluts

>> No.14543519

Lolita made me crack up at some points and nearly cry at others.
American Psycho, when I read it in one day, had me reeling. I agree with Will Self that for maximum comedic effect it should be read as quickly as possible.
The part in Malone Dies where Malone changes the name of the man he's telling a story about out of fucking nowhere was absurdly hilarious. Beckett has some real funny moments in between all the pain.

>> No.14543580

>>14542358
based

>> No.14543589

>>14542358
It was o.k. I was kind of disappointed. The best part was when he was molested then it just kinda stagnated and he kept doing the same gags.

>> No.14543634

>>14543367
that's a classic. That one and Right Ho Jeeves are the two best of the of the Bertie and Jeeves stories