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well written comedies. Anonymous Mon Aug 29 04:41:41 2011 No.2042901 [Reply] [Original]

I'm looking for off the wall hilarity of the highest order.

What you got?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 04:42:41 2011 No.2042903 Catch-22 is one of, if not the, funniest books ever written. Shame the other 21 suck, though.

Anonymous Mon Aug 29 04:51:41 2011 No.2042909

>>2042903
I finally read this after irrationally avoiding it for years. Decent writing and messages that, if no longer as revolutionary as on publication, obviously still hold value today. But it is repetitive and (for dialogue and scene structure, not overall plot) predictable as hell. All it does is combine Lewis Carroll's toying with language and logic with Oscar Wilde's paradox overflow with Evelyn Waugh's world out of control cynicism. Its interesting as an admixture but there's nothing really original except the immediate setting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 04:51:41 2011 No.2042910 >>2042903 ZING! ba-dum-tsch There are not enough cliche'd things I can say. John Dies at the End.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 05:02:41 2011 No.2042918 Candide is good dark humour. Don Quixote is probably the funniest thing I've read. Sancho so crazy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 05:12:41 2011 No.2042922 File: 44 KB, 630x423, houellebecqgazencigarette.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "Whatever" by Houellebecq is quite funny. i didn't think Houellebecq was capable of being so funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 05:26:41 2011 No.2042930 Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene. Well, I thought it was funny, anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 05:51:41 2011 No.2042947 The Importance of Being Earnest

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 07:33:41 2011 No.2043076 Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde Anything by P. G. Wodehouse or Evelyn Waugh The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bolgakov

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 29 07:34:41 2011 No.2043080 >>2042901 Finnigans Wake - Joyce

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 30 06:35:41 2011 No.2044792 >>2043080 Ulysses is way funnier. While you're at it, anything by Pynchon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 30 06:39:41 2011 No.2044798 Pet Sematary (sic) by Stephen King The part with the kid and the 18 wheeler gets me every time. xD

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