Lysistrata - the women try to stop the war by not sleeping with their husbands.
Don Quixote - as mentioned previously. This book is great.
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Lysistrata - the women try to stop the war by not sleeping with their husbands.
Don Quixote - as mentioned previously. This book is great.
I found Shakespeare's Love Labors Lost a delightfully funny play
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Probably the funniest book I've ever read.
Hitchhikers!:thumbs_up
Yes Hitchhiker's was really funny.
Has anyone else read or seen "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged" by the Reduced Shakespeare Company? Not literature particularly, but it really made me laugh a lot.
Morte D'Urban by American writer J. F. Powers is very funny. It isn't a novel, however, that many people have heard of apparently. It received the National Book Award way back in 1962
The novel is about a Catholic priest, Father Urban, and his dealings with other priests in the Order of St. Clement. Father Urban is ambitious, which isn't perhaps the best attribute for a priest to have. He gets banished, so to speak, to a small parish in rural Minnesota. Power's sense of humor is dry, but he tells a very good story.
Though not a prolific writer, Powers also wrote short stories and one other novel.
Youth in Revolt. C.D. Payne
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Name 4 pieces of writing that made you laugh. :)
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope)
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Adventure of the Kind Mr. Smith (W. J. Locke)
He Went Out to Buy a Rhine (Robert Graves)
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I totally second The Rape of the Lock.
There's another poem that I read in one of the poetry books I have, and it goes like this...
There's the wonderful love of a beautiful maid,
And the love of a staunch true man,
And the love of a baby that's unafraid,
All have existed since time began.
But the most wonderful love, the Love of all loves,
Even greater than the love of a Mother,
Is the infinite, tenderest, passionate love
Of one dead drunk for another....:D
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Le Petit Nicolas (René Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempé)
I'm sure there are some more, but those are the two that first comes to my mind.
Don Quixote!! What a blast.
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
I've been having trouble with a fourth. I'll second Don Quixote!
Bored of the Rings. It is advised that one not eat or drink while reading it, because of the risk of choking.
Here's six:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -Adams
Sotweed Factor - Barth
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Mason and Dixon - Pynchon
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov