Recommend some Cleverly Witty novels.

[Lynnwood]

I'm talking about wit in the vain of I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan. Some nice sarcastic narration.


Anyone?

[kelby_lake]

Lolita.

'You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style'. Best narrator line ever :)

And Vanity Fair

[jinjang]

Changing Places by David Lodge was comical if you haven't read it already.

It is of good nature and not sarcastic but witty definitely. The story is about two professors, one English and one American, who participate in exchange programs.

[kilted exile]

dickens

[LitNetIsGreat]

dickens

No, Wilde.

[JBI]

The Studhorse Man, Robert Kroetsch.

[The Comedian]

The River Why by David James Duncan.

[MorpheusSandman]

Chesterton is incredibly witty; though not really sarcastic. But he's superb at irony.

[Lynnwood]

Thanks for the recommendations guys so far you guys. XD

[kilted exile]

No, Wilde.

bah, anyone who doesnt end up crying from laughing at works such as Oliver Twist & Hard times has no soul

[JBI]

bah, anyone who doesnt end up crying from laughing at works such as Oliver Twist & Hard times has no soul

Or David Copperfield. Hard times seems to me less funny, and more moralistic. David Copperfield is savagely funny, where you are made to laugh at him being beaten as a kid, or even in the beginning when his crazy aunt ditches him at birth for being born a boy. His mother being emotionally abused is also, in a kind of savage way, made to be comical.

In truth, Dickens was perhaps the most barbaric of novelists. Zola comes close, but Dickens was quite the sadist.

[Scheherazade]

The River Why by David James Duncan.I have been hearing about this one but have no idea what it is about... Maybe I should give it a try... Or arrange another group reading for it once we are done with In Cold Blood.

[Virgil]

Changing Places by David Lodge was comical if you haven't read it already.

It is of good nature and not sarcastic but witty definitely. The story is about two professors, one English and one American, who participate in exchange programs.

David Lodge is very funny. I recommend Nice Work.

Also Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis is hilarious.

[kilted exile]

Or David Copperfield. Hard times seems to me less funny, and more moralistic. David Copperfield is savagely funny, where you are made to laugh at him being beaten as a kid, or even in the beginning when his crazy aunt ditches him at birth for being born a boy. His mother being emotionally abused is also, in a kind of savage way, made to be comical.

In truth, Dickens was perhaps the most barbaric of novelists. Zola comes close, but Dickens was quite the sadist.

but it is not the act that is funny in dickens. it is the absurdity of the attitude that says its ok that dickens wants you to laugh at.

[Veva]

This is probably something completely different from what has already been suggested before, but I just finished The Choke by Chuck Palahniuk and I think that though some people might find it quite "obscene", I still think it is very witty.

But I would recommend The importance of being earnest by Wilde, anyway.;)

[AuntShecky]

Have you read anything by Stanley Elkin or Eliot Baker?

[JimmyRow]

Lolita

Oliver Twist

A Confederacy of Dunces

[JuniperWoolf]

But I would recommend The importance of being earnest by Wilde, anyway.;)


Me too.

[Virgil]

But I would recommend The importance of being earnest by Wilde, anyway.;)

Oh that's hilarious, but that's a play not a novel.

[JuniperWoolf]

Oh that's hilarious, but that's a play not a novel.

Haha, oh yeah! Woops. :goof:

[Veva]

that's right guys.... I am still in for Chuck Palahniuk and Choke....