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funny /lit/ Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 12:14:49 No.7510497 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: funny books. No rules, really.

I'll start with Apuleius's Golden Ass. It's a story about a young man who plays with magic and gets metamorphosed into a donkey. The whole thing is hilarious. Lots of lewdness.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 12:17:56 No.7510508 File: 20 KB, 374x478, ulysses.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 12:49:49 No.7510567 File: 26 KB, 331x500, 583785.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] John Gall (if that is his real name) is a total maniac.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 12:51:50 No.7510569 don quixote

Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 12:54:05 No.7510573
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Stephen King's On Writing

No trolling, it's hysterical. His advice is sound, but his childhood memories and the way he tells them make me laugh. Very well-done

Obligatory: Rontel by Sam Pink. I doubt I'll ever read a book that makes me laugh as much.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 12:57:32 No.7510581 The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 12:57:47 No.7510582 >>7510567 Been looking this up and it looks great. What's the humor here--im trying to get a handle on it but I can't any excerpts, im going off reviews/the book jacket.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 14:35:26 No.7510783 >>7510582 It's an insightful book about a weird topic written in a somewhat ironical register. It's a funny ~philosophical text that isn't hammy Barnes & Noble shelf-bait like "On Bullshit" or "Assholes: A Theory".

Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 14:52:02 No.7510824

>>7510497

No pictures because my old comp died but

>Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
Holy Shit. Excellent thriller but the tropes are out of this fucking world corny. It's cringeworthy, hilarious, and a a reasonable break from mostpodernism vs existentialism

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 22:20:56 No.7512147 >>7510497 White Noise by DeLillo

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 22:35:55 No.7512202 The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 23:12:23 No.7512278 >>7512202 first time i've seen this book mentioned here. it's really good. the scene where he accidentally comes out is pretty hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 23:15:57 No.7512292 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 23:17:22 No.7512296 Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye are the funniest books I've read

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>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 23:26:10 No.7512314 >>7512299 reading this right now did he just masturbate to his fucking dog

>>	Anonymous Sun, Dec 27, 2015 23:27:08 No.7512317 >>7512314 Yea. Just like us, amirite

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 01:55:02 No.7512710 >>7512296 >>7512299 These and Slaughter House Five You won't find many "hidden gems" of comedic writing. Almost all of the genuinely funny books are already considered masterpieces Don Quixote is supposed to be funny but I never read it

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 02:45:12 No.7512845 File: 7 KB, 255x220, 1449550983044.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >No Douglas Adam ITT Checkem

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 03:25:46 No.7512922 the apple store desu senpai

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 03:33:27 No.7512933 Tristram Shandy you fucks

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 03:43:49 No.7512952 File: 729 KB, 716x620, 1447975636893.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7512296 >tfw both on my bedside table right now whole heckload of funny

Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 05:57:31 No.7513186
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Under The Frog - Tibor Fischer

Hilarious book about the early years of communism after WW2 in Hungary, following a young basketball player going through all the grotesque shit the new political system had to offer. Laughed out loud on every page.

"Has the new Hungary overcome the old three-layered class system of workers, bourgeoisie and nobility?" Roka asked, swiftly providing the answer (before anyone thought he was posing a serious question). "Not quite. There are still three classes in the new Hungary: those who have been to prison, those who are in prison and those who are going to prison."

"The good thing about Mao, like Marx, and in particular Lenin and Stalin, was that at one point or another, he had written or said everything from "I ordered the steak medium-rare" to "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" to "Chattanooga Choo-Choo". Everything had passed their lips, so you couldn't go wrong quoting from imagination."

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 06:01:47 No.7513191 >>7510573 Chuck Tingle's covers and titles are the best imo.

Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 06:07:58 No.7513197

I always found Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon to be fucking hilarious. His weird ironic voice and borderline parodies of the historical figures he depicts (Douglas MacArthur in particular, basically heroically posing in a bathrobe while his house blows up around him) are amazing.

Also, people love to claim Don Quixote is dry but it's really so fucking funny as long as you're not in one of part 1's subplots. The scene where the Don threatens to kill a lion tamer if he doesn't let him fight his lions always stuck out as underrated

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 09:25:49 No.7513515 >>7513186 This sounds great Communism a shit

Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:02:27 No.7513721
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Ignore the film, but the book is wonderfully meta, pulpy and inventive. I smirked, smiled and giggled plentifully throughout, but I also found the book surprisingly unsettling. It's a horror-comedy that knows how to balance genuine comedy and genuine horror.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:07:54 No.7513732 >>7513721 When They switch the girl out with a mannequin for a split second... That got under my skin. Wong spends a decade on the book and it's great. Funnier and more unsettling than King. He spends, what, a year on the sequel—? And it's trash.

>>	x Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:24:14 No.7513779 File: 11 KB, 150x200, 17228754._UY200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] World War Last - Norman Spinrad (from Other Americas) keked hard

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:26:56 No.7513787 >>7513186 No-one will ever believe me but this guy used to teach me at university

Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:29:11 No.7513795

>>7513732
I've yet to read the sequel, but yeah, John Dies at the End really is funnier and more unsettling than King. That was very surprising to me, actually, with how brilliant the book was - there's atmospheric tension, playful dialogue and characters, scenarios that feel like riddles like when Dave thinks he's killed himself and isn't sure if he's a doppleganger or not, shock value (I need to re-read the book really but I remember it feeling grotesque), etc. It's such an ambitious book and I hope people discover the book instead of the film.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:30:29 No.7513798 File: 67 KB, 600x802, De'Nasha.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Not posting ghetto /lit/ >Not laughing like the snobs we are

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:33:05 No.7513802 File: 43 KB, 720x720, 12193856_1017586848264010_850772516541808771_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7513798 > Benjamin Franklin

Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 11:46:29 No.7513840

Beckett can be really funny.
Queneau and Jarry are really hilarious.Rabelais, Petrone and Cervantes too. Mark Twain will also make you laugh.
There's also a lot of very funny plays such as Cirano de Bergerac, The importance of being Earnest, Moliere's plays and the theatre of the absurd.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:03:26 No.7513871 File: 2.09 MB, 2592x1936, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7510497 Three Men in a Boat Pic related ha me laughing out loud real good but that was a long time ago. Still funny

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:06:55 No.7513888 >>7512202 >>7512202 But it's pure shit. Not even funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:14:20 No.7513911 >>7513191 What can you say about his writing?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:16:37 No.7513915 Murphy and Molloy.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:30:02 No.7513948 Machado de Assis, for real. >Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas >Quincas Borba And that is just the beginning.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:33:10 No.7513954 >>7512710 Don Quixote is funny. At some points with slapstick, at other points absurdity and occasionally with profundity.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:34:55 No.7513961 >>7512147 Is that so? Nice. Got it for Christmas. Going to tackle it when I finally finish Infinite Jest sometime in the 2030's.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 12:36:31 No.7513964 >>7513787 I believe you anon. Was he any good?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 14:10:55 No.7514234 >>7513186 i can almost taste the autism from this post.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 14:45:56 No.7514321 Master and margarita Moby dick

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 14:53:00 No.7514334 >>7512314 dat book is all caricature and no guffaw.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 14:54:52 No.7514342 File: 56 KB, 640x640, 1444168107331.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7513948 I've been wanting to read this. I was kinda disappointed with brazilian literature after i read O Guarani. Shit was so boring.

Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 17:53:06 No.7514926

>>7513787
Why not, he must be around his fifties, living in the UK. How was he as a professor? I like his writing but lately his supporting comments on the current Hungarian government proved that he either doesn't know shit about what's going on in here or that he is hopelessly stupid.

>>7514234
Good for you pal, I suggest you actually google 'autism' as you clearly don't know what it means and chances are that you are affected.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 18:02:03 No.7514956 >>7514926 thanks

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 18:02:05 No.7514957 >>7514342 Tip: Don't read José de Alencar There are many better others good authors. I recommend you the Machado de Assis' Tales, Manuel Bandeira and Clarice Lispector.

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>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 18:29:43 No.7515081 >>7510497 Waiting for Godot. >because dick jokes

Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 18:39:27 No.7515119
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>>7513964
>>7514926

He was a pretty good lecturer. He genuinely cared about what he taught, and often taught us thing that were interesting and not completely useful but fun.

I had him for Theory and the Novel in First Year, and Creative Writing in Third Year. He was pretty good in both.

Also, he assigned us a project of reading one of his own novels and writing a short critical piece on it which is kinda funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 18:43:19 No.7515136 >>7514342 is that zeca pagodinho

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 18:52:09 No.7515164 >>7513954 >one of the more profound books in existence >occasionally with profundity I hate this board sometimes

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 19:04:58 No.7515218 File: 90 KB, 1200x942, machadão.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7514957 Thanks bud.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 19:08:44 No.7515230 >>7515119 Makes me jealous, lucky bastard!

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 19:17:41 No.7515258 >>7515230 He left halfway through the year though, which sucks.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 19:45:27 No.7515334 >>7510824 >tropes That's not the correct meaning of the word you fucking cunt.

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>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:14:01 No.7515530 >>7513779 Spinrad is massively underrated.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:23:10 No.7515575 >>7513186 Played basketball throughout my childhood and my dad's parents both emigrated from Hungary in '56, so this is going on my list, thanks anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:24:19 No.7515581 >>7514321 >Moby dick Wasn't expecting all the laughs I'd have from this book I laughed out loud the most while reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas though

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:32:20 No.7515611 >>7513915 >Murphy Oh god this. >when the one tenant kills himself and the one woman speculates the event to be an accident in slapstick

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:39:57 No.7515631 >>7510508 it more sad than funny overall

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:48:09 No.7515661 >>7512933 This! Other books that made me laugh out loud in public include Lucky Jim, Mason & Dixon. A couple of Kafka stories are pretty funny, Iike unhappiness and jackals and Arabs. Porcupines in the University by Barthelme is a hoot.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:52:28 No.7515673 >>7515164 He might have meant that it's profundity was occasionally funny. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. It makes me feel good to give things to the less fortunate

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:56:20 No.7515688 >>7515673 i spelled its wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 21:58:44 No.7515699 File: 50 KB, 332x443, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Christopher Fowler has some great horror/comedy moments. I heartily recommend 'The Bureau of Lost Souls'.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Dec 28, 2015 22:00:21 No.7515708 >>7512299 Read it, didn't laugh once. Don't understand what the fuss is about.

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