Books That Made You Laugh

[Anonymous No.15896072]

What are some of your favorite novels that made you laugh? it could be any period or sense of humor, just good reads that left you in a good mood

[Anonymous No.15896080]

Catch 22
Lanark

[Anonymous No.15896090]

Everyone's favorite sci-fi comedy

[Anonymous No.15896091]

>>15896072
the only book ive read that hasnt made me laugh was Stoner

[Anonymous No.15896093]

>>15896072
Notes.

[Anonymous No.15896097]

>>15896091
so...Does that mean you do have books to recommend?

[Anonymous No.15896103]

>>15896097
yes all of them

[Anonymous No.15896105]

>>15896072
Svejk, the part where he brought the drunk priest home.

[Anonymous No.15896113]

>>15896072
George Carlin has several books. If you like his style of comedy you'll like his books

[Anonymous No.15896121]

>>15896072
Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, the books protagonist is a black guy who feels white cuz he doesn’t care about being black.
Nabokov’s Lolita is pretty funny too

[Anonymous No.15896134]

Post Office. He takes so many L's that it becomes funny after awhile

[Anonymous No.15896145]

>>15896103
are you a sadboi who just wants to talk about Stoner? there's already a thread for that

[Anonymous No.15896503]

>>15896072
Lolita
Super Sad True Love Story

[Anonymous No.15896526]

>>15896072
whats this book about?

[Anonymous No.15896535]

>>15896526
Autistic NEET english major who tries to make it as a writer, but who lives with his momma.

[Anonymous No.15896616]

The Bible has a part where Solomon befriended a king of Tyre and gifted him a few cities, but the king of Tyre found them shitty. That's all, this story has no continuation and this did not impact their friendship. By some reason the shitty city story makes me giggle every time I remember it.

[Anonymous No.15896755]

>>15896072
Tom Sawyer made me laugh at quite a few parts.

[Anonymous No.15896762]

Infinite Jest is funny. Forest Gump was hilarious. And World According the Garp had some lols.

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[Anonymous No.15896980]

>>15896072
There were some parts in the Catcher in the Rye that made me laugh. Also You Bright & Risen Angels has some funny stuff as well.

[Anonymous No.15897001]

>>15896072
No book has ever made me laugh like this one. Confederacy of Dunces is beyond based.

[Anonymous No.15897028]

>>15896080
Just read Lanark and I guess there was some absurd humor in the first and fourth parts but not so much for the middle. Really enjoyed it overall though.

[Anonymous No.15897047]

>>15896072
JR is probably the hardest I’ve laughed with a book

[Anonymous No.15897060]

>>15896072
Pale Fire. Most Nabokov. Most James.

[Anonymous No.15897096]

>>15896072
Gravitys rainbow

[Anonymous No.15897110]

>>15896072
Brian O'Nolan has made me kek quite a few times.

[Anonymous No.15897150]

Gargantua and Pantagruel

[Anonymous No.15897162]

>>15896535
So all of us?

[Anonymous No.15897181]

>>15896072
I read Catch 22 after I ruptured my kidney and laughed so hard that my internal bleeding resumed. Worth it.

[Anonymous No.15897598]

>>15896072
Lord of the Flies a few times

>"Sucks to your assmar"
>"We're not savages, we're english"

several part from the first half actually, the second not so much

[Anonymous No.15897654]

>>No.15896072
Leonard Wibberley's 'The Mouse That Roared'

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>>15897162
He's more of a historian than an English major, and a tradcath larper as well. Thing is, while I certainly felt a little called out in places he's just so reprehensible a human being that I don't think it can represent anyone here. I hope not anyway.

[Anonymous No.15898399]

>>15896072
aka 'The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas' by Machado de Assis.

[Anonymous No.15898439]

I really enjoyed the Jeeves and Wooster short stories (better than the novels).

[Anonymous No.15898513]

>>15896072
Y'all will think me pleb, but Wodehouse puts me in stitches consistently. Even Blandings or Jeeves stories I've already read makes me chuckle.

[Anonymous No.15898750]

>>15898513
Don't take the people writing Ulysses seriously.

[Anonymous No.15898899]

>>15897028
I think it was book 2 or 3 (the real world parts), when Thaw is trying to fuck a girl and one of his friends tells him what the girl is probably going through. The bit about medically interesting had me cracking up
>You are chased by a clever particular boy. He's polite but his clothes and hair have paint on them, he breathes heavily and his skin is often ... hmmm... medically interesting

[Anonymous No.15899340]

>>15897001
This.

[Anonymous No.15899368]

>>15896121
sellout got a little old towards the end imo

[Anonymous No.15899664]

>>15898439
>>15898513
agree with the wodehouse. love the psmith books.

[Anonymous No.15900303]

Underrated. Only novel with frequent human/goat sex.

[Anonymous No.15900349]

Laughed harder the first time I read it. Still holds up pretty well. "Dale."

[Anonymous No.15900867]

The funniest I have read has been The Good Soldier Svejk, it is really funny and absurd and tragic at the same time, kind of like Kafka, Musil, Broch, Döblin. Of older writers, Cervantes, Rabelais and Sterne always make me laugh out loud. Of contemporary writers, I have found Salman Rushdie and Robert Bolano to be the funniest.

[Anonymous No.15900882]

>>15900867
Forgot to add Gunter Grass to the list of funniest contemporary writers.

[Anonymous No.15900885]

>>15896072
Your pic related, Bartleby, and Jacques le Fataliste come to mind.

[Anonymous No.15901262]

>>15897181
That is so goddamn funny

[Anonymous No.15901294]

>>15896526
A lazy autist thinks his values and politics are better then everyone elses. The only things standing in his way are his laziness, his own autism, his superiority and insecurity complexes, and all those who simply are incapable of understanding him

[Anonymous No.15902132]

>>15896072
The Bible, really easy to spot the terrible writing style and things that are not scientifically possible! Makes me laugh and chuckle how dumb Christians are that they believe in a book with grammar mistakes! They clearly haven't heard of evolution.

[Anonymous No.15902236]

>>15896072
Your pic.

[Anonymous No.15903201]

>>15896072
Notes from the underground, the part where the protagonist falls over and rolls away from the policeman like a bug made me laugh out loud.

[Anonymous No.15903210]

>>15896072
It's a shame that they never made a comfy 80s comedy movie out of this.

[Anonymous No.15903254]

>>15900303
I preferred Sot-Weed Factor, I felt that Goat-Boy was a bit too long for the premise.

[Anonymous No.15903278]

The dialogue between Oblomov and Zakhar was funny. Two people with similar flaws harassing each other while simultaneously requiring each other for their own happiness. The melodrama of Oblomov over such trivial actions was quite relatable at times and made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.15903394]

>>15897047
JR had me consistently howling in laughter often. I've had good laughs with Middlemarch, The Pitwick Papers, some Pynchon, Austen and others, but nothing comes to mind that was as consistently as laugh out loud funny as JR. It's funny right from the start with the two aunts and it only just becomes more absurd. I've been meaning to read The Recognitions, but I've been mostly busy with rereading several books at a time and writing this year. Pretty excited for when I finally decide to get a copy of The Recognitions and read it

>>15900303
>Not the kino cover
>>15903254
Only Barth I've read is Goatboy even though a friend told me to start with Sotweed because he thought I'd like it. Been meaning to get into his other works. Barth himself said that Goatboy goes on too long.

Kafka's The Trial is pretty hilarious the entire time.

[Anonymous No.15903484]

>>15897047
what's JR?

[Anonymous No.15903485]

>>15903484
a book, goofus.

[Anonymous No.15903627]

>>15896072
Slaughterhouse Five were really funny imo

[Anonymous No.15903634]

>>15896072
Master and Margarita. Although it was probably mentioned 5 times itt.

[Anonymous No.15903763]

Logging, pimping, and your pal Jim. It's one of the "other stories" that comes with a river Runs through it

[Anonymous No.15903771]

>>15896090
I liked the restaurant one better

[Anonymous No.15904272]

>>15903484
yeah but what does it stand for, or is it the title of the book?

>>15903634
>the Behemoth shootout scene

peak literature

[Anonymous No.15904311]

The book that made me laugh and feel good like no other was Cannery Row by Steinbeck.

East of Eden has its happy moments, too, but it ain't light-hearted.

[Anonymous No.15904428]

>>15903485
It is a good book or a bad book?

[Anonymous No.15904712]

>>15896072
Confederacy of Dunces, of course. But Huckleberry Finn is pretty funny as well.

[Anonymous No.15905099]

>>15896072
I must be retarded, I don't remember Ignatius using a sword at any point

[Anonymous No.15905273]

>>15899368
not them, but I feel like it got bland during the middle and then finished strong

[Anonymous No.15905311]

Mason & Dixon when they are being entertained by a rich Dutchman and his hot teenage daughters and Mason can't keep his cool.

[Anonymous No.15905312]

>>15905099
He had a fake one while dressed up to sell hotdogs iirc.

[Anonymous No.15905459]

>>15905099
he had a prop cutlass to compliment his pirate attire (earing, headscarf) while working for Paradise Vendors and used it to damage Dorian's sweater

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[Anonymous No.15905605]

>>15905481
isn't CLB supposed to be disturbing?

[Anonymous No.15905755]

>>15896105
Many parts of the first book were funny imo.

[Anonymous No.15906154]

>>15905605
well when one of the brothers shot his mom in the face w a shotgun gotta say it was funny as fuck in a way, same when the faggot fucks his ass w some gigantic ball of gold i'm sure it was intended to make the reader laugh

[Anonymous No.15906234]

>>15904272
it’s the title, by Gaddis

[Anonymous No.15906262]

>>15906234
oh ok, thanks

[Anonymous No.15907435]

Catch 22, never had such a good time with a book.

[Anonymous No.15907853]

>>15904311
I love Steinbeck. East of Eden is great, but Cannery Row is my personal favorite of his. Steinbeck's characters and their realism are only rivaled by Tolstoy's

[Anonymous No.15907968]

What makes a book funny, in your opinion?

I agree that Confederacy is perhaps the funniest book I have read, and I think the reason is partly because the author invests so much of himself into the character (as other people have stated, and as is evident in his biography Butterfly in the Typewriter - and which is also evident in other funny books like Welcome to the NHK, which is highly personal) and also because it identifies extremes (in behaviour, ideology, etc) and places them in conflict with one another to create a state of absurdity which you doesn't feel forced (e.g., Ignatius decrying the decaying philosophical ideals of his culture while watching children's cartoons and eating fast food). I'm tempted to think that the attraction of comedy is similar in this respect to the attraction of sex (including pornography), that is a state of innocence is in conflict with a state of debased wretchedness, and explains why the appeal of an innocent girl being degraded by an animalistic older man appeals to so many on an erotic level, due to the extremes involves; it forces a reaction from the viewer, and the reaction can either be disgust and contempt (as the Ego demands) or lust and sexual gratification (as the Id demands). It's as though the internalised battle between one's idealistic, pure self with one's base, impulsive, repressed self is put on display and in seeing it displayed thus (in an articulated manner) we are forced to react in a sincere way, and laughter and / or sexual arousal is the natural way for us to react. It's the formation of a whole, albeit fleetingly, a kind of truce briefly agreed between our competing natures, a momentary transcendence (or perhaps merging) of our ambiguous sense of identity resulting in a kind of self-consciousness experienced from above or on high, looking down at our competing impulses and seeing them for the absurd and rather pathetic things they are, before of course closing the book or tab and continuing the struggle.