Huh what? It is pretty funny - though drily so.Originally Posted by keilj
Huh what? It is pretty funny - though drily so.
ha - all right. As long as you're not talking knee-slapping funny
I have a bit of a sadistic and dry sense of humor, so for me its Hunter S. Thompson.
His insightful and often drug fueled rants just crack me up.
I've just finished Joy in the Morning by P G wodehouse. Every line in it makes you smile and quite a few make you laugh out loud or nudge the person next to you and read out quotes.
A quote from Stephen Fry on the back reads
"You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in it's warmth and splendour"
Having read vast tracts of Wodehouse's prolific output I have laughed out loud on many an occasion. It's fatal to read him on public transport at the risk of being thought mad by other passengers, but the funniest book for me must be Evelyn Waugh's 'Scoop' which had me helpless with laughter from beginning to end. I'm laughing now just thinking about it.
If you can handle some dark... verrrry dark and shocking humor, and are looking for something more contemporary, just about anything from Chuck Palahniuk is a winner. I would recommend Survivor or Choke (If you saw the movie, please don't let it disuade you. One of the worst adaptations ever of a phenomenal book). But beware: He is NOT for the faint of heart.
pioneer, go home by Richard Powell
Mil Millington (Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About), Christopher Moore and Sherman Alexie for me.
Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is my best 'laughing' book.
I don't like comical books nor those which meant to be "amusing", I prefer serious books.
Will Cuppy's 'The Decline and Fall of practically Everybody' is hilarious. I also enjoyed the oeuvre of German writer Walter Moers.
Neil Gaiman made me laugh and gave me suspense feeling
I really love his novels^^
Mark Twain's Huckelberry Finn is a good one too!
I really liked it as well
so i hope you'll love them too^^
Anything written by Danny Wallace generally has me laughing my head off.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Confederacy of Dunces
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Catch-22
Don Quixote
and just because it was surprisingly so... Lolita
and check out some of Larkin's poetry like this:
This Be The Verse-
They **** you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were ****ed up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself
I must say, at risk of being slated for it, I have always found Terry Pratchett very amusing. To the point of laughing and people staring at me. Mostly due to his sarcastic take on things, and a rather darker humour as his books progressed, along with his alziemers.
However the book to make me laugh the most, was actually not even fiction. Eats, Shoots and Leaves - wonderful. I'm always looking for new funny books, old or new, for children or not and this thread has definately given me some new ideas in some places I didn't even assume to find humour.
Terry Pratchett, especially in English - his ironic jokes aren't an easy thing to translate.
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