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What was the funniest book you have read?

>> No.20900505

Don Quixote

>> No.20900509

THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY

>> No.20900514

Dog of the South

>> No.20900518

Three Men in a Boat

>> No.20900520

Anything about 9/11.

>> No.20900524

Capitalist Realism. It was funny when he killed himself at the end

>> No.20900541
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>>20900520
lel

>> No.20900577

>>20900502
Don Quixote

>> No.20900607

>>20900518
This, A Confederacy of Dunces and Catch 22 are my top 3 funny books.

>> No.20901134

>>20900502
master of atlantis
something happened
pale fire

>> No.20902972

>>20900502
Every PKD book ever...in a hyper meta ironic way

>> No.20903000

>>20900502
A Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.20903002

>>20900502
I laughed a lot reading Concrete by Thomas Bernhard

>> No.20904106

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

>> No.20904165

the third policeman
a mother’s kisses
julie hecht’s first collection and her book about andy kaufman
revenge of the scapegoat

>> No.20904563

hitchhikers guide

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>>20900509

>> No.20904615

>>20900502
Slaughterhouse V

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Call of the Crocodile. Pic related.

>> No.20904635

>>20900502
Unironically American Psycho. Made me erupt in laughter every 3 or so pages

>> No.20904649

catch 22

>> No.20904661
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>> No.20905098

some of kafka is pretty funny

>> No.20905102

>>20904635
Same, even thinking about the kosherburger with cheese makes me smile, and re-reading the chapter invariably leaves me in a laughing fit.

>> No.20905115

norm's book and some terry pratchett I've read.

>> No.20906109

>>20900502
ham on rye. dunno about ever, but this year at least.

>> No.20906255

>>20900518
A man of culture. The follow up, Three Men on the Bummel is good, too, but not as good as the first.

>> No.20906276

>>20900502
Candide

>> No.20906555
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20906555

I laughed a lot at this.
There were a few sadder and horrific scenes as well but about 90 percent of Harrogate’s scenes had me chuckling at some point

>> No.20906622

Haven't read much fiction but I'm reading V. now and it has some genuinely funny moments. Legit loled at this passage and idk if it was even intended to be funny:
>"It isn't me you love," she kept saying. "You want to change me into something I'm not."
>In return he could only argue a kind of Platonism at her. Did she want him so shallow he should only love her body? It was her soul he loved. What was the matter with her, didn't every girl want a man to love the soul, the true them? Sure, they did. Well, what is the soul. It is the idea of the body, the abstraction behind the reality: what Esther really was, shown to the senses with certain imperfections there in the bone and tissue. Schoenmaker could bring out the true, perfect Esther which dwelled inside the imperfect one. Her soul would be there on the outside, radiant, unutterably beautiful.
>"Who are you," she yelled back, "to say what my soul looks like. You know what you're in love with? Yourself. Your own skill in plastic surgery, is what."
>In answer to which Schoenmaker rolled over and stared at the floor; and wondered aloud if he would ever understand women.

>> No.20906665

>>20904661
Hack

>> No.20906831

>>20906622
he just like me

>> No.20906854

Of course Confederacy of Dunces is worth mentioning, but the scene in Mason & Dixon where they are invited to eat dinner at a Dutch merchant's house and one of them keeps flirting with his daughter while her father is sitting at the table eating next to them still makes me chuckle when I think about it.

>> No.20906901

>>20906665
on of the highest achievments achieved in the world of text on paper

>> No.20906913

>>20900502
Norm MacDonald's book

>> No.20907792

>>20906913
How is that funny?

>> No.20907833
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Late XIX century portuguese writers are generally extreme funny, especially pic related and Eça de Queirós.

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This series is probably the most I've laughed about with books but I have a juvenile sense of humor.

>> No.20909243

>>20900502
The Bible.

>> No.20909302

>>20900502
Lucky Jim. I generally doubt books' ability to be actually laugh out loud funny, but passages there made me laugh without affection.

>> No.20909321

>>20900520
Rent free

>> No.20909350

>>20907792
It has jokes

>> No.20909353

>>20904635
Lotta great scenes, especially the part where he tells the black dudes "im fresh yo, im def, the deffest"