-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
-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.
Thanks, Buggy!
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" - Dostoevksy
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!!"
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!
the whole boatload of sensitive!
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl II.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! I have never laughed so much for one book
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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.
These fragments I have shored against my ruins
James Joyce, the pirate.Why don't you write books people can read? -Nora Barnacle
Insupportable claim: Reading my stories will make you a better person. Do your best to prove me right.http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=20367
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
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
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.Originally Posted by papayahed
Hogfather, Thud, Jingo, and Interesting Times by Terry Prachett
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
That's true, I still laugh out loud when I think of the spoiled milk , alert the dairy. haha
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
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.
"They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground, --
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound."
Master and Margarita was very funny, and especially Don Quijote, that knight was hilarious.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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