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Originally Posted by missimpossible
...anything by Terry Pratchett (apart from The Last Continent).
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Oh, yeah, definitively Pratchett. Most of his works, at least. The Long Earth isn't very funny (but still an OK read, if not as good as his earlier work).
Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman is probably the funniest I've read. I was laughing out loud, and someone asked me what I was reading. I tried to explain (the end of the world as described in the Bible, angels and demons and Antichrist (except not quite)), and realized halfway through that the person I was talking with was very Christian and very much Not Amused
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25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?'
26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.'
27 And the Lord did not ask him again.
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Have you read
Saki? Very dry humour, and great language.
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“After all,” said the Duchess vaguely, “there are certain things you can’t get away from. Right and wrong, good conduct and moral rectitude, have certain well-defined limits.”
“So, for the matter of that,” replied Reginald, “has the Russian Empire. The trouble is that the limits are not always in the same place.”
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Team Human (
first chapter here) by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan is really funny if you like vampire books, or hate vampire books (but probably not if you're meh to vampire books).
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“He could be a vampire.”
“Yeah, I can see it,” I said. “He moves with the predatory grace of a penguin.”
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