06-01-2012, 07:02 PM | #46 |
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So many wonderful choices! Less known ones are Zodiac by Neal Stephanson, Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by LLosa Vargas who just won the Nobel Prize.
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06-01-2012, 07:20 PM | #47 |
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Zodiac is a pretty funny book!
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06-02-2012, 10:08 AM | #48 |
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06-04-2012, 12:28 PM | #49 |
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Looks like folks here don't have their funny bones tickled...enough
Pick from this list, you can't go wrong with:
Guy Gilpatric and his Glencannon series As you can gather from the above list, i'm a fan of British humor. Don't make me choose among these...please.
Ernest Bramah and his Kai Lung stories William Hazlett Upson and the indefatigable Alexander Botts Three men in a boat and Three men on the bummell by Jerome K. Jerome The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad Anything by David Sedaris Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (read the unabbreviated version) George Ade's Fables series Douglas Jerrold's Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures Saki's Reginald James Thurber's short stories Leo Rosten's Hyman Kaplan stories E.M. Delafield's Provincial Lady Joyce Dennys' Henrietta Anything by Gerald Durrell, but especially the Corfu trilogy Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay Most anything by P.G. Wodehouse Any of Bill Bryson's travel books or his autobiography |
06-04-2012, 02:23 PM | #50 |
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06-06-2012, 04:59 AM | #51 |
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Hmm, another vote for Hitchhikers. + Catch 22. + Portnoys Complaint.
No Vonnegut nominations? C'mon people... Cats Cradle? Breakfast of Champions? Anyone? |
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06-06-2012, 09:01 AM | #53 |
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I wept with laughter all the way through Jane Austen's juvenile masterpiece, "Love and Freindship" (spelt thus).
And another vote for anything by Douglas Adams. |
06-07-2012, 06:33 AM | #54 |
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Yes, anything by Vonnegut of course!
And some of Magnus Mills' books are among the funniest I've ever read. E.g. The Restraint of Beasts is excellent. Mills is one of the few writers who manage to win literary awards with funny, easy-to-read novels (this fact should also tell you that there is a lot more to his books than that they are 'simple' and funny). |
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06-07-2012, 09:35 PM | #56 |
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A Fine and Pleasant Misery by Patrick F. McManus is probably the funniest book I've ever read. It's a fictionalized account, so probably doesn't really qualify, but it's funny as hell.
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08-24-2012, 11:11 PM | #57 |
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I checked out "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" based solely on the title. I don't generally read books like this one, but I found it funny. The characters and lines were a bit, but the author's use of wit in the narrative was amusing.That said, I ultimately didn't check out any more by the author. "Motherless Brooklyn" had some laugh out loud moments as well, but as a whole the book really didn't do it for me either.
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08-25-2012, 04:44 AM | #58 |
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Time for some Australiana:
John O'Grady (as Nino Culotta) They're a Weird Mob, and its funniest sequel Gone Fishin'. Frank Hardy The Outcasts of Foolgarah. David Martin The Hero of Too. The daddy of them all, Lennie Lower Here's Luck. Not to mention all of Henry Lawson's short stories. |
08-25-2012, 02:14 PM | #59 |
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08-25-2012, 02:56 PM | #60 |
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'two much' by donald westlake
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