I entirely agree with you, as many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories end with a surprise conclusion, but often not for the best. One story in particular, however, made me laugh with its dark, almost cruel humor: The Necklace.Originally Posted by caspian
Thinking of short stories, another humorous one that I absolutely loved: Gimpel The Fool by Isaac Bashevis.
Almost anything by Oscar Wilde is so funny and Midsummer night's dream and other comics by Shakespeare. And many others I have to think about.........
I hope death is joyful, and I hope I'll never return -Frida Khalo
If I seem insensitive to what you are going through, understand it's the way I am- Mr. Spock
Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'–and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. - Baudelaire
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
among others.
yos, yos, Catch 22 is da dopemaster shiznite, it is funkadellic fresh funny and yossarian is the ish dog, much props to my man Heller, represent
Woody Allen's "Horse Feathers" I think it's called
and agree with another, Catcher in the Rye
bridget jones diary and its sequel, the edge of reason. time and again: hysterical.
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
of course oscar wilde.
i also find waiting for godot to be seemingly funny for reasons i really can't explain.
miriam toews a complciated kindness has some very funny bits in it.
but the king of all literary absurd ironic comedy
is
do de do de
John Irving.
i find him so incredibly funny. a pray for owen meany...ohmigod...everytime he has meany talk it's so freakin funny!
let me know whatcha think?
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - funny, funny, funny.
The Secret Diary of Adrien Mole, by Sue Townsend, I haven't read it for years, but I ermember it being funny!
Books are the carriers of civillisation- Henri "Papillon" Charriere
"Bartleby the Scrivener" by Melville
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, and Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
"The Conversion of the Jews" by Philip Roth
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
"When unto these sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up a remembrance of things past."
Down and Out is funny?!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
and
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
by Hunter Thompson
Old Times by Harold Pinter (especially the bit where the man says 'My name is Orson Welles you know')
Jane Eyre too.
Evelyn Waugh - almost anything except Sword of Honour or Brideshead Revisited
Blood and Guts in Highschool
and
Great Expectations
by Kathy Acker
Oh yes and
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
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Jane Eyre? Why's that then?
Books are the carriers of civillisation- Henri "Papillon" Charriere
I'm normally disinclined to read humorous fiction, but I've always found Dicken's 'Great Expectations' to be pleasantly amusing.
Connie Willis' 'To Say Nothing of the Dog' is a more modern satire that I've found enjoyable, as is Douglas Adams' 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', though in a slapstick sort of fashion.
I thought that The Three Musketeers was funny in many parts. Athos how he is always so calm in the face of danger is an example.
This is one of my favorite/funny parts, the chapter entitled Porthos:
http://www.public-domain-content.com...teers/25.shtml
“Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.”
-Macon Ravenwood
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