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What's the funniest book you've ever read?

>> No.20928478
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Either pic related or Confederacy of Dunces

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Call of the Crocodile. Pic related.

>> No.20928487

>>20928466
this book is actually funny, I flipped to like ch 10 and it starts ‘All my life women have known I was interested in them - they could always tell I wanted to smell their ass.’

>> No.20928502

>>20928487
it's really funny. i'm usually not into audiobooks but he narrates it himself and i feel like it improves upon it, the way he enunciates certain things, emphasizes some things, etc

>> No.20928594

>>20928466
Man, this guy sure used to be funny. What the fuck happened?
I bailed on him after his shitty ted talk about how one guy built the chrysler building and teams are way worse than individuals at literally every task.
Sad times.
Don Quixote is a remarkably funny book, albeit very long. A wild blend of super low slapstick, whimsical absurdity, and ahead-of-its-time meta-humor

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>>20928483
that actually makes me want to read it. is this more f gardner shilling?

>> No.20928899

>>20928892
Hearing about how absurd CotC was is actually why I read it. It certainly did not disappoint. I might actually read the other books at some point.

>> No.20928928

>>20928899
>>20928892
What I love about these posts is that you cant know if they're shilling too

>> No.20928953

>>20928928
At this point I’ve embraced the fact that Call of the Crocodile being shilled is the most shilled meme of them all.

>> No.20928957

>>20928594
He thought boomer-tier trumpoid politics were the new cool thing and paid the price

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>>20928928
im not shilling, but i cant if you're shilling or not

>> No.20928978

>>20928483
>F Gardner is….le bad!

These posts never fail to crack me up. That guy really got the Ben Garrison treatment here from buying all his banner ads.

>> No.20929008

>>20928978
And it ironically made him famous.

>> No.20929983

>>20928466
Don Quixote takes it for me. Catch-22 was recommended to me to be funny also, did not like it that much. I've heard the Jeeves stories by PG Wodehouse are also quite funny, will be reading them soon.

>> No.20930019

>>20928466
Reflections on the Revolution in France

>> No.20930060

>>20930019
How is that funny?

>> No.20930130

>>20928466
Is audiobook available for download anywhere?

>> No.20930195

>>20928957
the cool kids are embracing dark brandon

>> No.20930277

>>20928466
I read this big book of nonsense second edition. Can't remember the name but it taught me to taje off my underwear with my pants on. Apparantly in the first edition they explained how you can mail flip-flops as valid postcards and then put someonenof them up in thsi edition. Anyone got the name? It was a good laugh.

>> No.20930281

>>20930277
The covers had the mona lisa with graffiti and the secibd edition was American gothic but the wife was doing bunny ears

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>> No.20930285

>>20929008
Infamous. I'm never reading his book or a summary of it because it'll just be mediocre shit he forced into a meme and reading means he got away with it.

>> No.20930295

>>20928502
Audiobooks are the best format for comedy. Especially if they do voices. I love it when they do voices. Terry Pratchett does some fun stuff on page but the audiobooks are an utter treat. It feels really, really good to laugh at unironic humour.

>> No.20930301

>>20929983
I haven't finished catch-22, i gifted it along with my other good books to my grandmother but I've done something like the crabapple scene so it was hilarious that someone else got it besides my own little musings in my head.

>> No.20930782

>>20930060
The part where he spergs out over a districting plan that was never followed through with by the French Assembly is funny.

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>>20928466

>> No.20930801

>>20930783
peak comfy

>> No.20931578

>>20930130
Audible

>> No.20931950

>>20930285
Good goyim! Only consume “Approved Thing ™” books and NEVER any 4chan produced literature.

>> No.20932110

>>20928466
Is it actually a good book or are you trolling?
Most of what I hear of McInnes is him being a retard, but I also heard a pretty interesting interview he gave on his views on culture and how subcultures form and it was pretty interesting.

>> No.20932801

>>20932110
A long time ago he was pretty funny and seemingly sane. I'm not sure if it's from his going on red eye for so long, or piled-up bad interactions with media and artistic types, or some combination but he got a lot less funny and a lot more ideological

>> No.20933212

>>20931950
I'm a drone because I don't heed propaganda?

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>>20933212
>F Gardner is propaganda

Literally the opposite.