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anilEhilated posted:Gotta drop The Leaky Establishment by David Langford. Absurd farce about British nuclear research in the eighties, one of the very few books that made me laugh out loud. Just dropping by to thank you for this rec; I'm a huge fan of Langford's short stories but hadn't really branched out into anything else he'd done. Gonna try and get my hands on this. Extremely subjective and not for everyone recommendation: Saki's short stories are pretty funny when they're not weird supernatural stuff, and they're all on Gutenberg to the best of my knowledge.
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Paul Murray's "An Evening of Long Goodbyes" is one of the funniest books I've ever read. One of the few books I've had to stop reading in public because it was making me laugh too much. His other works, "Skippy's Dead" and "The Mark and the Void" are also very funny but a little more serious.
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How are we three pages in without someone saying Tristram Shandy? Of course, it is super masculine, but 18th century lit, what are you going to do?
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It's upsetting to me that masculinity exists and is sometimes written about
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chernobyl kinsman posted:It's upsetting to me that masculinity exists and is sometimes written about Have you read Tristram Shandy? I'm not upset that masculinity is written about, but ya I think to some readers it might be weird to some readers.
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That's a really weird thing to say about Tristram shandy.
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Okay, maybe fair. It just struck me when I read it. It's still super good. I still recommend it to everyone cause Toby is amazing. But it's portrayal of women was weird to me. That's all. I am probably spoiled as a 21st century reader. Whatever. Guess I'm wrong. Point is it is super funny and is good lit. alpha_destroy fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Jun 12, 2017 |
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David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day had me laughing so hard I was crying throughout the entire book, but I suppose it's an obvious choice.
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failing forward posted:David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day had me laughing so hard I was crying throughout the entire book, but I suppose it's an obvious choice. It's also not a novel, that's a collection of essays. They are indeed funny though. Except for that weird book of animal stories, Sedaris doesn't really do fiction.
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David Sedaris is very hit or miss for me, but when he hits, it's great.
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I picked up the first Mortdecai book at a second-hand book sale recently and just read it this week. It's really good and funny.
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Any of the Flashman books by George McDonald Fraser, they combine humour, well researched history and a whoooole lot of cynicism. All of them great, especially the first one.
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Jun 28, 2017 03:32
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For lighter reading, I enjoyed An Unattractive Vampire by Jim McDonell. It's about a vampire that wakes up after 400 years of sleep only to be horrified that that vampires are depicted as sparkly sex machines in popular culture.
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Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story: A Memoir reads more like a novel than any kind of regular comedian memoir and is hilarious throughout.
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Kikkoman posted:Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story: A Memoir reads more like a novel than any kind of regular comedian memoir and is hilarious throughout. that's because it is a novel, and not a memoir
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If it was a memoir it'd have juicy home truths, like he was a deeply closeted homosexual! I think that book is the only one I'll ever listen to in audiobook format.
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Most of the books by John Scalzi have some dry humor scattered through them--the downfall with his books though is that if you've read one book you've read them all as far as the humor side of the story goes. Same goes for most of the standby recommendations in the Urban Fantasy thread--there's always an undercurrent of comedy to the novels recommended there.
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Kikkoman posted:Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story: A Memoir reads more like a novel than any kind of regular comedian memoir and is hilarious throughout. "His eyes went black like the wing of a crow."
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If puns are your thing, "go quest young man" can't be beat
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Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis. It's Noir for perverts, and a poo poo ton of fun
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I've laughed more reading Céline's novels than all other books put together. His name isn't mentioned in this thread so I have to bump it.
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Vogler posted:I've laughed more reading Céline's novels than all other books put together. His name isn't mentioned in this thread so I have to bump it. Who?
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, one of the few originals. There's hardly any subversive litterature that's not been inspired by him.
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Vogler posted:Louis-Ferdinand Céline, one of the few originals. There's hardly any subversive litterature that's not been inspired by him. I can't find anything by him in English on Kindle. I don't know if it's not available at all or if I'm just in the wrong country, but either way I guess I won't be reading it. 
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Tiggum posted:I can't find anything by him in English on Kindle. I don't know if it's not available at all or if I'm just in the wrong country https://www.amazon.com/Journey-End-Night-Louis-Ferdinand-C%C3%A9line-ebook/dp/B00I5EYC4I/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= also, I am currently reading Under the Net by Iris Murdoch, it's one of the funniest books I've read in quite a while. would make for a good Coen brothers style movie. for a debut novel it's extremely good (I've read a couple of her later books which are also very good, but not really funny)
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Earwicker posted:https://www.amazon.com/Journey-End-Night-Louis-Ferdinand-C%C3%A9line-ebook/dp/B00I5EYC4I/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Wrong country it is then. That shows up as unavailable for me.
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Tiggum posted:I can't find anything by him in English on Kindle. I don't know if it's not available at all or if I'm just in the wrong country, but either way I guess I won't be reading it. this is why kindles are stupid
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ah, i can't find an ebook of celine in my region. i could pirate it in like two seconds, or go to a library and get a physical copy, but instead i'm going to read douglas adams for the 18th time.
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Journey to the End of the Night is one of the few books I have a physical copy of, because I only keep books on my limited shelf space if they're good enough to reread.
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A human heart posted:this is why kindles are stupid A human heart posted:ah, i can't find an ebook of celine in my region. i could pirate it in like two seconds, or go to a library and get a physical copy, but instead i'm going to read douglas adams for the 18th time.
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Tiggum posted:Don't ereaders enable piracy? piracy is enabled by the ability to download a pdf onto your computer (and before that, by the ability to photocopy a book). yes you can then put it on your kindle but its not the kindle that enabled piracy, but ereaders do bring all of the barriers of subrights and licensing into the digital world when you are buying legally.
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Most of Bill Bryson's stuff is pretty funny. If you like travel books check him out.
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My favourite book (Catch-22) has already been mentioned so I'll go with my second-favourite which is Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer. A (semi-)fictionalized account of his father's life in post-WW2 Hungary.
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Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau is pretty funny
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Paul Beatty won last year's Booker Prize with basically a joke-filled book called The Sellout. It's very funny
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Tiggum posted:Hello, I enjoy Terry Prattchet, Douglas Adams and his ilk, have you folks come across anything similar I may have missed? A bunch of goons come sprinting into the thread: HAVE YOU READ THIS ULTRA HILARIOUS 1930'S AUTHOR?????? HES SO FUNNY AND I AM SMART AND YOU SHOULD HEAR THIS BAND I LIKE.
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oh no, people in the book forum recommend good books. how horrible
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504 posted:
pssssshh Three Men in a Boat was published in 1889
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504 posted:A bunch of goons come sprinting into the thread: Thorne Smith motherfucker, Nightlife of the Gods is a great book.
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