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-Eoin Colfer's books(Artemis Fowl series, Supernaturalist, Half moon, Wish List)
-Dianna Wynne Jones. (Howl's Moving Castle, and all the Chrestomanci books, except the newest because i havn't had a chance to read it yet...)
-A Series of Unfortunate Events really made me laugh. It's so random:lol:
-I am reading Sense and Sensability and its made me laugh a few times.
- I am positive there are more, these are just the ones that come to mind.
Ladybird books always take the wits out of me. Now that I'm much older, more mature (okaaaayyy...), I finally appreciate them for what they're worth. When I was a kid, a toddler - 2 to 3 yrs. old - I'd see reading as a chore and didn't like books that much, even if they were covered in attractive colorful pictures and bright colors but now I've came back and read them again and the books were just hilarious! I can't figure out why I disliked reading them in the past and now it's come to haunt me (we still keep those books, after 15 years) but I now appreciate them. (I can see those puppies and dogs and cats staring at me...) They make me roll on the floor laughing and it generally makes me feel good.
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Thanks, Buggy!
Well, Right Ho, Jeeves was hilarious.
Also, James's The American was actually quite funny in many places until it neared the end.
Any Oscar Wilde play can make anyone laugh! especially the Importance of Being Earnest.. Don't get me started on the "Bunburying!!"
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! I have never laughed so much for one book
Mark Twain has written some incredibly funny essays, if that counts. "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences" I had to read in installments, so as to avoid asphyxiating myself with laughter. The same goes for "How to Make History Dates Stick."
Ulysses is actually quite funny, and not just here and there funny. There are jokes everywhere in that book, very funny jokes--if one cares to read each passage fifteen times.
Im only going to list some of those I found funny in a laugh out loud sort of way:
- "Three men in a boat" - Jerome K. Jerome
- "The importance of being Ernest" - Oscar Wilde
- Any from the Blandings series by P.G. Wodehouse
What do you think? Any more to add to the list?
Confederacy of Dunces
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
Definetely "Dirk Gently" by Douglas Adams
and "Men at arms", "Fifth Elephant", "The Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett
It had its moments for me, but i didnt find it hilarious. Its funny in a satirical sort of way. Still I enjoyed it a lot.Quote:
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Hogfather, Thud, Jingo, and Interesting Times by Terry Prachett
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That's true, I still laugh out loud when I think of the spoiled milk , alert the dairy. haha
Beside Wilde's Importance....., I should add Green's For Whom The Bell Chimes.
"Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett comes to mind.
Master and Margarita was very funny, and especially Don Quijote, that knight was hilarious.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bridget Jones's Diary (1 & 2)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Utterly Monkey- Nick Laird
Any work of Raymond Queneau
I personally suggest "Zazie in the Metro", "The Blue Flowers" and "We always treat the women too well"
He's the most funny author that i had ever read
Neil Munro - The Para Handy stories.
Stephen Leacock - anything
Vladimir voinovich - The Adventures of Private Chonkin
O Henry, a personal favorite for a laugh. :nod:
the funniest books I've ever read would have to be Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. They get funnier every time I read them.
When I was very young, my brother gave me a book that he thought was very funny. And it was. It's the funniest, silliest book I've ever read. The writing was not good and the humor was pretty juvenile, but I laughed all the way through the book. It was The Horse is Dead by Robert Klane.
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What was the funniest book you ever read?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Insanely funny; but you have to be in the right frame of mind to read it (or have a twisted sense of humor)..... I've recommended it to a number of people who just couldn't get through it, and thought me crazy for loving it.
The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
Blart(kids book that had me in stitches on a train once. Lots of people staring.)
Catch 22 comes to mind, and in dryer, more subtle vein, anything by Wilfred Sheed, and the two books of short stories and the first novel by J.F. Powers.
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Nice Work by David Lodge
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Of course i'm reading Don Quixote right now and it is hilarious. Just check out the Don Quixote Reading Group thread here on Lit Net.
There ought to be more but I can't think of any of the top of my head.
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Oh of course. I just read this a few months ago:
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
And Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Barney's version by Mordecai Richler....I truely loved it....it is not that it makes you laugh out loud, but it surely makes you smile:D :D
Complete Nonsense for Edward Lear was funny to me.. and a complete nonsense indeed
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome).
Small Gods...Terry Pratchett.....:lol: :D :)
To my mind, Douglas Adams is the funniest writer ever. Too bad he is dead.
Once I heard him read from his works in Heidelberg. That was even funnier because he could do the voices of Marvin and the stupid killing machine brilliantly. He also read from 'Last Chance To See', adding witty comments. I know there is a recording of that lecture (CD), but I can't lay my hands on it. Can anyone help?
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Barbara0207, if you go to Amazon.co.uk and search for Douglas Adams click on shop and then click on The Hitckhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a price for the audio book will come up. Don't know if it's the lecture you were talking about.
Hope this helps.;)
I also laughed my way through Don Quixote. It's just so funny, albeit a bit dry.
funnies book i think was sex slave: how to find one, how to be one.
not a lot of thought into it. but amusing enough.
I really enjoyed reading Misery Guts by Morris Gleitzman.A little childish but very funny!:)
Okay, I have a strange sense of homour. So for me they would be:
Pride and Prejudice - Mr. Bennet's wit and satire! Black humour I like.
Mort - Ironic, I found it a kind of funny
And perhaps some books from Harry Potter series. I also found many funny bits in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings but I wouldn't call all these books basically funny. They are dark too.
And yes, George Bernard Shaw's plays. My favourite kind of humour!
Wow. This opens up really good possibilities for many posts.
For general humor (non-fiction): Don't forget Thurber, Benchley, Frank Sullivan and contemporary humorists
Woody Allen,Russell Baker (also editor of humor anthologies), George Carlin (yes he writes books!), and
David Sedaris. Ironically, earlier this year David was in hot water because the exaggeration necessary for humor writing caused some spoilsports to say it was "fiction."
And in that fiction category -- the master of course is Mark Twain.
More modern comic authors? Thomas Pynchon. Peter DeVries. Elliott Baker. (Remember that last one cause
I spent precious minutes on an Internet search. I was trying to get the title of his book that takes place on a US Navy ship in WWII. Maybe somebody can help me out here. Anybody know?)
I left off the authors whose books make you laugh except that they are unintentionally funny. Otherwise I'd be posting all day! But Twain really did a number on his contemporary, James Fennimore Cooper.
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I've got some audiobooks of the series, but Amazon hasn't got the lecture. But thanks all the same for answering, granny. :) (BTW, just call me Barbara. :D )Quote:
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Molloy= Samuel Beckett.
I described to my wife as Woody Allen meets William Faulkner.
I don't know the accuracy of that, but you use what you know.
Neil Gaiman: most of his books crack me up. Specially Good Omens and Anansi Boys (The chapter with the lime was priceless.) Most Prattchet books are quite funny too!