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1470787 No.1470787 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good writers/books with a lot of black humor?

>> No.1470812
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1470812

bump

>> No.1470821

Chuck Palahniuk, need I say?

>> No.1470823

Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Doesn't get much nastier and mean-spirited.

>> No.1470826

>>1470821
>good
no

>> No.1470828

>>1470821
No, you needn't, because he is absolutely awful.

>> No.1470829

>>1470823
Fuck yes!

Vonnegut is the one that's too obvious, but bumping for interest.

>> No.1470838

Catch 22 ~ Joseph Heller

>> No.1470851

>>1470823
This. Journey to the End of the Night is clutch.

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Does this qualify?

If not, bump.

>> No.1470889

inb4 chuck pah....
ah fuck

>> No.1470894

>>1470828
y u mad tho?

>> No.1470896

>>1470889
Nice use of black humor. ^.^

>> No.1470908

Does it have to be current? If not, I recommend Saki

>> No.1470923

>>1470894
I'm not, in fact, I couldn't be happier. I'm just stating what I thought was obvious!

>> No.1470924

>>1470787
David Foster Wallace.

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>> No.1470971

Anthony Burgess

>> No.1471092

Albert Camus, THE FALL
BEAT THE REAPER, I can´t remember the author´s name, but he is a Doctor, as in physician, and writes a book bout a new york medic caught up in mafia affairs...pretty good

>> No.1471097

I thought Journey to the End of the Night was hilarious. It made me laugh out loud every few pages.

I lent it to a friend and she thought it was disturbed, dark, and disgusting.

Did /lit/ find it funny or awful?

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>>1471097
Funny, dark, and great. I haven't seen anything bad about it ever posted in the over one year I've been frequenting this board.

>> No.1471285

>>1471114
>The Corrections

Some girl at a party told me to read this. I wasn't sure at first, but then I was sold when I read this:

"The novel was a selection of Oprah's Book Club in 2001. Franzen caused some controversy when he publicly expressed his ambivalence at his novel having been chosen by the club due to its inevitable association with the "schmaltzy" books selected in the past.[6] As a result, Winfrey rescinded her invitation to him to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[7]"

>> No.1471290

>>1471285
Franzen writes shit, anyway. Oprah's the best he can do, so he shouldn't bitch.

>> No.1471296

>>1471290
I have a pretty hefty list of books I want to read. Should I even bother on planning to read it soon?

>> No.1471297

Movie writers, but the Coen brothers and Martin McDonagh

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>>1471285
>Jonathan Franzen