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Funniest books you've read? Anonymous Wed May 28 15:29:15 2014 No.4943941 [DELETED]

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Just looking for some well written humour

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 15:30:15 2014 No.4943944 Mark Twain created stand up comedy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 15:30:52 2014 No.4943947 >>4943944 Any specific recs?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 15:31:34 2014 No.4943949 File: 14 KB, 220x285, 220px-James_Thurber_NYWTS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4943941 Thurber

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 15:35:47 2014 No.4943967 >Complete works of Artemus Ward http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6946/6946-h/6946-h.htm >Don Marquis http://donmarquis.com/archy-and-mehitabel I also recommend Terry Pratchett, Bill Bryson and... Russell Brand?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 15:36:21 2014 No.4943969 >>4943941 The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 15:40:45 2014 No.4943984 >>4943947 Cannibalism in the Cars is short and sweet. Not the best, but h'ain't bad.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:05:33 2014 No.4944063 Gideon Defoe is the shining light of 21st century comic prose other than that, laugh-out-loud: Charlie Brooker, Bill Bryson misanthropic chuckles: Saki, Beckett, Kafka, DFW, Vonnegut

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:12:23 2014 No.4944079 I liked Tucker Max's books but your mileage may vary

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:13:53 2014 No.4944086 Anything from Jeeves series by Wodehouse

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:15:51 2014 No.4944094 Thomas Bernhard and Italo Svevo

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 16:19:33 2014 No.4944103 >>4943941 P G Wodehouse.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:06:15 2014 No.4944277 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Sandman guy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:10:21 2014 No.4944283 >>4943941 Their eyes...what have you done to their eyes?!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:45:33 2014 No.4944381 >>4943941 Isn't he the pedophile movie director?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:50:32 2014 No.4944397 File: 32 KB, 260x320, at_swim.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Brian Ó Nualláin

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:52:25 2014 No.4944402 >>4943941 Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:53:10 2014 No.4944404 File: 32 KB, 327x500, dogofthesouth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 17:54:42 2014 No.4944409 >>4943941 HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Anonymous Wed May 28 18:01:07 2014 No.4944427
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>Pointsman and Mexico trying to catch that dog
>Slothrop chasing the mysterious clothes thief
>Slothrop eating British candy
>Mickey Rooney seeing Rocketman holding a bag of hashish
>that party
>those songs
>those limericks
>those puns

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:10:07 2014 No.4944452 >>4943941 The Gypsy's Curse by Harry Crews is fucking hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:13:32 2014 No.4944461 >>4944427 >Slothrop eating British candy Was the hardest I ever laughed readin' something till now.

Anonymous Wed May 28 18:30:14 2014 No.4944494
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I was reading Real Ultimate Power in class and drew attention to myself by laughing too hard. I couldn't stop. I thought I was dying.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:34:47 2014 No.4944503 >Schacht entered a stall and drove the latch home with a certain purposeful sound that produced that momentary gunslinger-enters-saloon-type hush throughout the locker room IJ had a few big laughs

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 18:36:28 2014 No.4944509 >>4944494 It's true. Among some of the more heady recommendations in this thread, pleb tier trash like Real Ultimate Power is still hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:06:49 2014 No.4944600 Confederacy of dunces, discworld novels (mainly the guards series and death series of books), V and gravity's rainbow by pynchon, breakfast of champions by vonnegut, don quixote ( obligatory), catch 22 and much more that I can't think of right now

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:06:55 2014 No.4944601 de Sade.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:18:03 2014 No.4944628 File: 81 KB, 661x512, _MG_3907.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the Ciaphas Cain novels in the Warhammer 40K setting are hilarious

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:30:11 2014 No.4944656 File: 54 KB, 441x666, The-Family-Fang-Cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I liked this one. It's not 100% comedy, but has some funny parts.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:42:28 2014 No.4944686 Just started Don Quixote and so far it's been pretty funny.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 19:52:09 2014 No.4944717 >>4944086 This, Wilde too

Anonymous Wed May 28 19:56:42 2014 No.4944728

The comedies of Aristophanes hands down. Literally wept with laughter at some of the burns in 'The Frogs'

Euripides: At least I didn't keep rambling about the first thing that came into my head, or plunge right into the middle of the story and leave everybody guessing. The first character that come on would immediately explain the play's background and origin.

Aeschylus: Which was invariably better than your own!

2000 years later Euripides still mad

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:02:34 2014 No.4944745 >>4944397 Seconded. That fucking bicycle chapter.

Anonymous Wed May 28 20:04:32 2014 No.4944755

>>4944728

Aristophanes hate for Euripides is one of the funniest thing ever to me in greek history, by the end of their rivalry, Aristophanes was writing jokes making fun of Euripides mom for being a wandering vegetable merchant

Aristophanes created the yo mama joke out of hate for the tragedy tradition

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>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:10:40 2014 No.4944772 File: 58 KB, 324x500, 51+PMPuLhwL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] pic related is hysterical

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:10:45 2014 No.4944774 >>4944760 I'm surprised it took this long for someone to post that. I guess the fedoralords are elsewhere today.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:18:27 2014 No.4944798 Don Quixote A Confederacy of Dunces Catch-22

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:29:43 2014 No.4944843 William Burroughs' Queer. It's basically Please Respond: The Book.

Anonymous Wed May 28 20:40:48 2014 No.4944907

This (pic related).
It is ultra patrician, it has never ever been mentioned on /lit/, and it's the most hilarious thing I've ever read, you could almost die from laughter sometimes.
Basically all the gossip, vice/sex anecdotes and crazy stories about mighty people in 17th century France. Everything is true, which is mind-boggling.
The Pléiade edition (two volumes) is wonderful!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:42:05 2014 No.4944913 File: 32 KB, 193x320, product_9782070443116_195x320.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4944907 Whoops, here's the actual pic:

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:44:18 2014 No.4944926 >>4944774 >You can't make jokes about religious books Calm down.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 28 20:45:53 2014 No.4944936 >>4944926 >You can't get tired of the same shit done over and over again. Calm down.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 29 05:44:21 2014 No.4946636 File: 69 KB, 992x558, slymotherfucker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4944427 >Mickey Rooney seeing Rocketman holding a bag of hashish

>>	Anonymous Thu May 29 05:47:08 2014 No.4946640 >>4944760 Probably the best work of fiction I have ever read.

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