Funny books

>>8954431
My diary my good man

>>8954431
Hitchhiker's Guide made me laugh out loud a lot when I first read it, but I was quite young at the time, probably like 13.

>>8954450
desu

>>8954431
When I was 16, I used to read "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" by myself at my mall's Barnes and Nobles.

I literally laughed so hard they had to kick me out; and this was far more than once or twice. I mean, like, I'd go inside, receive a wary look from one of the attendants that seemed to say "You better not pick up that fucking book again", and then I'd just sit in the corner and laugh my heart out until they had to ask me to leave.

They never did banish me from the store, for whatever reason I don't know, but sometimes I think back to those days and smile. I was such a happy kid.

Well since you mention simpsons

https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Detective-John-Swartzwelder/dp/0975579967

Reads like a simpsons episode.

>>8954471
I've been meaning to give these a look. Dose Swartzwelder's genius translate to straight text?

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Technically not a book but i don't think comedy gets much more /lit/-tier than Chris Morris and Robert Katz's Monologues from Blue Jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTjk02bj0k&index=13&list=PL80FCE34666BBDD8C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H5Jkt2M2JI&list=PL80FCE34666BBDD8C&index=14

>>8954479
yes. you'll be laughing the first 2 pages

Catch-22
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow, TCoL49
Don Quixote
Infinite Jest
Shakespeare

Tristram shandy

>>8954507
Oh, and yeah, no. I've never laughed at a book like I've laughed at a movie, a show, stand-up, or at something with friends. The most a book can get from me is a chuckle, and maybe I'll reread the joke and appreciate it with a curious smile.

J R is the funniest book I've ever read. 700 pages a laugh on every single one. Did I mention the memes? HOLYYYYYYYY ARE THEY EVER HOPPING WITH FLAVOR MAZOLA NEW AND IMPROVED THE FAUCET DOESN'T TURN OFF SHOE PRINTS UP ALONG THE WALL HOLY POOP IN THE PIANO BAST WITH 1 SHOE WELL AHM AS I WAS WELL AHM AS YOU CAN WELL AHM AS A MATTER OF FACT HOLY

>>8954431
sorrentino's mulligan stew is really funny if you can stomach unabashed metafiction

S. J. Perelman stuff.

I like Nabokov's humor a lot, the taxi puns in Lolita killed me for some reason
Gogol's Overcoat was also really funny in a kind of tragic way
Plus the Infinite Meme had me laughing fairly often

>>8954431
A Confederacy of Dunces and Catch-22 are two novels that had me belly-laughing multiple times.

>>8954464
I also found Douglas Adams very funny when I was younger, but now, honestly, re-reading his stuff barely even puts a smile on my face and sometimes even makes me cringe.

>>8954581
Will never forget "...as I bayed through the undergrowth of dark decaying forests".

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>>8954468
This anon is SUPER cute.

>>8954597
Thank you, kind anon ;_;

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>>8954597
Maki is SUPER cute.

>>8954593
I've read A confederace, it was okay. Not a belly laugh though.

The tunnel made me laugh hysterically on certain parts

Candide.

gulliver's travels was a trip. Swift was a bitter SOB

>>8954468
>You better not pick up that fucking book again
kek

>>8954431
certain parts of the quixote made me laugh so hard, but you have also to know the chivalry tradition to get it

Lucky Jim is far and away the funniest book I've ever read.

>>8954431
The Trial--rather unexpectedly I might add--has some very funny parts.

I am a Cat made me laff

I read Hypersphere out loud to my friends and I couldn't breath by the end of the 3rd footnote

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pic rel is pretty funny

A Prayer for Owen Meany was pretty funny

matt groening owes a huge debt to a confederacy of dunces

>>8955153
>implying life in hell isnt goat tier

MDE Present's How to BOMB the U.S. Gov't

By Sam Hyde, Nick Rochefort, Charls "Coors" Carroll, et al.

:^)

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>>8954431

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Pic related.

>>8955177
He sad funny, not angry, virginal and sweaty :^)

>>8954464
It really doesn't hold up.

>>8954507
+1 Catch 22 that shit has gold tier comedy in it

I feel like the same joke is reused a lot though of 'x cat happen' 'x happens'

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Only thing that gets me laughing in books is random bits of spaghetti like this shit from Great Gatsby.

I liked Catch-22 a lot but it never got me to LOL (Acronym for 'Laught Out Loud'). Whereas dumb stuff like this catches me by suprise.

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>>8954431
tee bee haytch

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>>8955395
>getting baited

Is mentioning Pratchett taboo on this board or something?

>>8954431
three men in a boat

>>8955616
No?

>>8955637
How come there are literally no threads ever?

>>8955708
Because its a pretty niche series.

>>8955581
Ur down 2 duck?

'jeeves takes charge' a random compilation of Jeeves stories which include all the best.

Except some stupid story about priests and Wooster betting on the length of their sermons. That story sucked.

The Wodehouse novels aren't as funny as his short stories IMO.

>>8954431
My Twisted World is, unironically, one of the greatest works of comedy ever produced

>>8955625
This is easily the funniest book I've ever read, I was really sad when I finished it because it felt like I was leaving my buddies behind. My gf told me there's a sequel and I keep forgetting to pick it up.

Anything by the Pynchon, tbqh.

His books are like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

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The first third of Glamorama is hysterical.

Also, dirty plebes, he said "literature", not fucking garbage in book form like >>8954464 and >>8954468.

Anything by Terry Pratchett

>>8955870
This tbqh. The supreme gent could have sold off his dairy has a modern day masterpiece of comedy if he hadn't gone through with the shooting.

>>8954431
“To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.”

From the book Hyperion

>>8954431
Discworld is pretty funny.

>>8955033
This. Lucky Jim is criminally underrated.

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>>8954431

Any of Karl Pilkington's books.

I don't care if it's plebby, he's hilarious.

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>>8955920
Yeah, but have you checked these dubs?

>>8955870

Holy shit when he described his lotto autism. I was honestly laughing out loud.

>>8956160
I still remember Rodger spilling his drink on others and then running away in triumph like it was an act of divine retribution, priceless

>>8955872
The sequel is not as funny overall but has a few good bits about the German nation, bicycles and wives.

>>8954431
Not going to lie, but "Cannery Row" had me laughing most of the way through. So did the Original Scroll of "On the Road."

>>8955895
I never get tired of this pasta.

Im 50 pages into catch 22 and Ive found it hilarious so far, funniest book ive ever read. not that I would have even tried to read books that were even supposed to be funny, apart from hitchiker galaxy fucking book of shit that wasnt funny at all, though.

>>8955895
I feel bad bumping this pasta but the ending is still one of the funniest things I've seen on here

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>>8954431
This one. The personal essays had me exploding with laughter, almost uncontrollably. His attempts at short stories are terrible, though. You should skip those.

>>8956753
Interesting, I just started catch 22 as well and I am finding the humor in it cringe inducing

>>8954512
This.

Also, The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth has plenty of moments that made me laugh right out loud, and Puckoon by Spike Milligan is stuffed with brilliant jokes and wordplay (although without much of a plot).

Celine

Naked Lunch is pretty funny and disgusting.

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>>8954431
The Master and Margarita was pretty hilarious at points. So was Don Quixote.

>>8955895
quality pasta
props to whoever wrote it

candide
american psycho
catch-22

think those are the only books that have made me laugh out loud

>>8957189
>tThat moment you realize that the devil is actually Woland, Koviev and Behemoth and Bulgakov is memeing the Holy Trinity with an Unholy Trinity
Epic shitposting Bulgakov.

>>8957203
Reading American Psycho right now and it's kind of humorous but nothing has made me laugh out loud. Does it get funnier? I'm only a quarter through.

The Disaster Artist is absolutely hilarious if you've seen the Room.

>>8954507
>Don Quixote

im barely through it and ive already had a lot of laughs, this is a great book

>>8957215
there's a scene where he reads a poem to his girlfriend. i was crying laughing. only thing in the book i laughed at. so try your best to get through all the descriptions of designer clothes and wait for that.

>>8957266
Yeah I've started to skim through his descriptions of everybody's clothes. I don't even know what the brands are other than Polo and Versace

I laughed pretty hard at that chapter in Brothers Karamazov where Fyodor Karamazov says all that ridiculous stuff in the meeting with the elder Zossima. Didn't expect that book to be that funny.

I tended to laugh a lot whenever Dostoevsky would have a part with Polish people.

>>8954507
i'll throw in for Don Quixote and Shakespeare. Sometimes in Shakespeare there are these moments that fully illustrate the drama and the comedy of life and I live for those. The same can be said about Quixote

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
>It's not literature
Name a better tragic hero then Greg. I'll wait.

>>8955895
this is legitimately probably the most well written pasta in existence. the creator genuinely has a talent for writing. its better than most things written in critique threads

>>8955920
>The BEE fan is a pompous asshole.
Why am I not surprised?

I know you'll all shit on me for being a pleb but Norm Macdonald's book was genuinely funny and made me belly laugh several times.

The Apple Store

>>8956321
Is it true? A fellow Lucky Jimfag, on my board?

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>>8956200
This one?

>>8957144
I went through Steely dan's discography recently and picked Naked Lunch up just so I could understand their name.

>>8954507
pynchon makes you laugh then feel kind of sad you laughed. Then after that you're kind of in this half humoured half morbid state

>>8954431
either the twelve chairs or the golden calf
the first page of the latter is my favourite start of any novel, serious or comic

>>8954468
would you still rec this for a laugh

>>8958605
I was 16 at the time, and literally everything made me laugh. I'm not actually sure if it'd make me laugh now that I'm almost 21, but something inside me really hopes it would, for humor is the only thing that keeps me going some days.

Maybe one day I'll pick up that book and I'll be 16 again, for just that moment.

Only time will tell.

We'll see, muchachos. We'll see.

>>8954431
Anything by Tom Sharpe, Wilt is a great place to start.

I'm currently reading the Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien and it's quite funny so far in a very absurdist way. Bit it's not only funny it's many things at the same time.
Brilliant
This man deserves more appreciation here

>>8954987
THIS

the part with the flappers actually had me laughing as I read the book

I just read Norm McDonald's book.
Pretty funny but it was a bit too broad at points for me.

>>8954593
>Muh valve
I still joke about that with my gf

>>8954581

gogol is fucking hilarious

>>8955229

oh shit i got that thing for free a while ago. glad to know it's good

>>8957020
This. For other people who find Celine's sense of humor funny, check out Bernhard.

Infinite Jest
and
Faserland

>>8954431
James Thurber books tend to be consistently funny. Also recently read Error Australis which had some good bits. In addition, of all things I was breaking out laughing at some of Stalin's antics in a biography of him.

>>8958490
I've heard a lot about Ilf&Petrov, I'll check out Twelve Chairs. I remember my dad reading it as he was undergoing chemo and it managed to cheer him up. Any book that can do that has earned my respect.

>>8959068
He is amazing. I still remember the description of the shit encrusted pants of the Irish mythical hero in At Swim Two Birds.

>>8959175
Yes. The way he makes you chuckle lightheartedly and then hollows your heart out in the very next sentence and when you realise you've been laughing at such tragic displays of human wretchedness as the modern mind often fails to flesh out on its own--how does he bring that together in such a confined space as his short pieces offer?

Franny and Zooey made me laugh out loud multiple times when Zooey was in the bathroom talking to his mom.

>>8956977
>I am finding the humor in it cringe inducing
Even if you didn't find it particularly funny there is no reason why the humor is bad enough to be cringe educing. Why do you think it is so bad?

>>8954431
>ctrl +f "suttree"
>0 of 0

Missing out.

All of you are missing out.

Honestly, A Woman of No Importance.