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Good morning, /lit/,

What is the funniest book you have ever read? Mine's Catch 22.

>> No.2661192

Pride and Prejudice, not even joking. If you go in thinking that it's a romance you will likely be bored. If you go in thinking it's a satiric comedy, you are much more likely to enjoy yourself.

>> No.2661196

Jpod, Douglas Coupland

>> No.2661343

American Psycho is pretty funny sometimes.

but yes, Catch-22 is just awesome

>> No.2661362

If you were raised in a christian household this might be funny to you:

http://www.amazon.com/Lamb-Gospel-According-Christs-Childhood/dp/0380813815

>The story of Jesus, the teenage years
>travels to the Orient
>becomes a bodhisattva
>fights a demon spawn in Tibet(?)
can't recall anything else right now, I should read it again

>> No.2661386

James Tate's Selected Poems

See:
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Tate/KWLS/Tate-James_03_The-Animists_KWLS_2003.mp3

http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Tate/KWH3-19-98/Tate-James_A-Knock-on-the-Door_Pe
nn_3-19-98.mp3

http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Tate/KWH3-19-98/Tate-James_Never-Again-the-Same_P
enn_3-19-98.mp3

>> No.2661393

>>2661188
Posts
>Dane Cook
Pretends he got the humour of Catch 22

>> No.2661401

If I like Sayonara Zetsuboi Sensei, will I like Catch 22?

>> No.2661420

The War with the Newts was sodding hilarious.

>> No.2661435

>From now on I'm thinking only of me.
>But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.
>Then I'd be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
Still one of my favourite quotes. I need to read that thing again some time.

>> No.2661439

>>2661362
It's funny if you weren't raised in christian household. I think the first part I started laughing at was where Jesus was letting his little brother bash a lizards head in and then he'd stick it in his mouth and revive it. I don't think I was ever inclined to stop.

>> No.2661440

Microserfs!

>> No.2661441

>>2661401
No. It will leave you in despair.

>> No.2661452

>>2661196
Un-/lit/ as hell, but I enjoyed that book quite a lot. Apart from the lazy deus-ex machina.

>> No.2661453

>>2661439
yeah I finished it in a few days too

>> No.2661465

The Dice Man

>> No.2661468

>>2661465
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed A Confederacy of Dunces or Catch-22, which would be the #2 and 3 on my list, by the way.
Christopher Moore has a lot of bizarrely funny books. A Dirty Job is probably my favorite over Lamb, though.

>> No.2661475

A Confederacy of Dickheads