What's the funniest book you've read? >inb4 it

Catch-22

IJ honestly

Other books that I thought were quite funny are Faserland, Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren (both without an English edition apparently), Master and Margarita (iirc? it's been a while),

a confederacy of dunces
death on the installment plan

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>>9694838
Honestly, The Disaster Artist had me laughing the entire time. You need to watch The Room before seeing It though.

>>9694838
If a book makes me laugh I throw it in the trash.

"Funny" is the lowest form of entertainment.

>>9695281
you must be great at parties

>>9695288
My attitude is the type you can't conform to unless you are already immensely popular.

Humor in a social setting is the lowly plebs pathetic attempt to compensate for a lack of popularity.

Confederacy of Dunces
Catch 22 (until it stops making me laugh and starts making me cry)
The Ugly was pretty funny, but not consistently.

Frederic Dard books and the Wilt series by Tom Sharpe

muc by anna mocikat

>Main protagonist is a strong independent woman
>Her main trait is that she is strong and doesn't take shit from anyone
>Does some epic action scenes
>A beta loves her, she knows it
>She starts an affair with an alpha, even though he basically enslaved her brother and treats him like shit
>Everybody tells her to not do it.
>Alpha betrays her, sells out information of her to his influential father
>The beta is there for her and they end up together
>She still longs for alpha, though
>Sometimes makes out with him, but because she is a good women, she can control herself in the last minute and stop it

>In the end, the beta dies because of a stupid and unecessary (and convenient) mistake she made and the alpha realizes how beautiful she is and tries to win her over. Couldn't get myself to read the next part yet.

>>9694838
/canlit/ humor:
The Best Laid Plans, Terry Fallis
Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies

>>9695298
>Humor in a social setting is the lowly plebs pathetic attempt to compensate for a lack of popularity.

Wow.

>>9694838
bukowski

Foucault's pendulum. I laughed out loud with that book plenty of times. Cant wait to read more of Eco's work

>>9695487
Eco is based I read right now Prague cemetary pretty good

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>>9694838

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I've never been laughing so hard with a book.

>>9694838
Pickwick Papers
Jeeves and Wooster books
TCoL49
Gravity's Rainbow

>>9694838
probably pic related or Revenge by Aleksander Fredro

btw are you from Poland OP ?

In Praise of Folly is fucking hilarious. I re-read it every year, always makes me laugh.

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>>9695482
this.

pulp by bukowski is astonishing funny

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>>9695281
this

>>9695676
I'm a Polish minority in Lithuania.

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>>9695733
>>9695281

My Immortal
The first 50 or so pages of The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra (it gets repetitive after a while)
A Confederacy of Dunces

Finnegans Wake

>>9695298
sweet, i didn't know we roleplayed as upper crust douchebags on this site. keep going, anon, you're doing great

fear & loathing in las vegas

Infinite Jest

>>9694838
Dead souls
The petty demon
First 70% of catch 22

>>9694838
Candide

The Young Hitler I Knew

Martial - Epigrams
Plato - Symposium (or any of the dialogues, really)
TCol49
Don Quixote
Ulysses
Shakespeare Complete

The funniest book I've ever read was "El Buscón " variously translated as "Pablo the Swindler" or "Paul the Sharper", etc. 17th century Spanish picaresque short novel by Francisco de Quevedo. Only in Rabelais has scatological gross-out humor been used with such scholarly finesse. The comedy is shamelessly immature - but executed so well it works. One scene involving a chamber pot in a prison had me in danger of rupturing in internal organ from laughter as I read it on the train, trying to stifle my convulsions as several passengers eyed me curiously.

>>9694838
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut has me laughing out loud the entire time I read it.

>>9694849
I could never make it past the first few chapters. I just gave up.
My copy is still around somewhere, I'll give it a chance again soon

>>9696366
I also put it down after a few pages. I picked it up 3 or 4 years later and finished it - and it was worth it. It is tremendously funny, but also incredibly bitter and tragic as well. If you're okay with being mentally/emotionally smacked about - go for it.

>>9696300
Oh God, Don Quixote was hilarious. He fricking puts a barber's basin on his head thinking it is Mambrino's magic helmet, and goes around discussing philosophy with a damn bowl wobbling on his head.

>>9696184
I loved Dead Souls - though I was devasted by the unfinished state of it. I laughed so much when Chichikov is trying to get a woman landowner to understand his intention of buying "dead people's names" from her, and she keeps hesitating and chewing it over, enraging him as he attempts to explain for the millionth time she has literally NOTHING to lose, and will be making money for nothing. And still she doesn't get it and is overly-tentative.
Gogol's Government Inspector had me rolling on the floor as well.

I like when a highbrow lit book manages to be laugh out loud funny. Some instances: Dead Souls, Ulysses, The Trial.
>>9696184
Petty Demon was funny as fuck as well, I'm surprised to see it mentioned in /lit/
>>9696300
Don Quixote is hilarious as well

>>9695903
Ah, how did I forget this? The battle against the tin of pineapple, Harris and the hedge maze, the fake fish on the tavern wall! The banjo as well - what a brilliant book!

>>9695602
Pickwick was pure gold. And Dickens was only 24 when he wrote it. It's is so full of life and vigor. My favorite parts (aside from the ubiquitous fat boy, Pickwick on ice, and Sam Weller's banter would have to be the esteemed lady poet whose husband recites her universally-praised "Ode To a Dying Frog". Satirical genius.

>>9695487
name of the rose is funnier imo

>>9696401

Did you even read it? There's like 200 pages of lovers' stories right in the middle. Not funny at all.

OP the funniest book of all time is Tristram Shandy.

>>9696451

I think it's fair to say TS was the IJ of the 18th century. Or rather IJ is the TS of the 21st century. And TS is better. You'd see similarities having read both. DFW was very much influenced by Sterne.

>>9694838
ulysses

>>9694849
came here to say the same thing.
the whole washington irving scenario gave me a good chuckle.
and just all the actual 'catch-22's' that happened throughout the book,i thought were very cleverly put together

>>9694860
agreed IJ was actually funny
and fuck anyone who thinks its just a meme

>>9696451
You can just skip those stories. Cervantes was simply trying to prove he had more extensive literary qualities than lowbrow comedy, I think.
Tristram Shandy was incredibly good. I loved the part when Dr Slop delivers perhaps the longest and most elaborate curse in literature at the poor servant Obadiah, simply for tying his medical bag too tightly. It goes on forever and had my sides aching.

>>9694889

I didn't find it that funny. It's funny sure, but it's a weirdly touching and emotional book, way more than it's flat out funny.

>>9696550
But that's honestly what makes It so good, it's both funny and touching

>>9694838
I thought that it was pretty funny when hamlet fucked with polonius.

Tortilla Flat

Quixote, COD.

>>9697424
Oh also The Metamorphosis and The Trial

>>9697432

the metamorphosis is the right answer. The moment when Gregor is simultaneously realizing that he has metamorphosed and attempting to prepare for work is fucking hilarious yet tragic.

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>>9695288
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>>9696139
>getting mad at low hanging bait

I laugh at almost all the books I read because sometimes the wording becomes funny in the modern context.

>>9694889
Didn't expect to see this here but this is also the funniest book I've ever read and quite possibly the funniest thing I've experienced in my life. I could just never stop laughing. I love that Tommy Wiseau is a real person.

>>9695281
edgemaster mcphee

>>9694838
Laxness's Independent People could be really funny besides being really sad. Moby Dick can be really funny too. A lot of books are funny dude honestly.

>>9694838
Fool by Christopher Moore

^I second Moby Dick

>>9697432
The trial is really funny. I dont quite understand when people usually perceive kafka as "nightmarish" and such. Its kind of terrible for sure, but in a very funny surreal way. Its easier to laugh at the main protagonist rather than self insert, because josef k himself works in absolutely nonsensical manner

>>9694838
'Mulligan Stew' would be up there. The sex scene had me doubled over in pain laughing.

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I'm not at all surprised. I'm reading it now and it's allegedly a 'hilarious' book. 100 pages in and it literally has not raised a smile. Maybe it's a fashion thing where comedy has changed over the decades, but I've really never experienced this amount of distance between a book's reputation and my response.

SALMONELLA MEN ON PLANET PORNO IS SO FUNNY. BUNCHA SHORT STORIES BUT THEY'RE SO FUNNY READ IT

>>9696366
i felt the same in the beginning, it's very confusing when you first start. just focus on what you learn about each character in every chapter, and soon you'll grasp more.

Just started Pynchon's Vineland and I find myself laughing a lot at this book, I'm getting more of a kick after 30pages than I'd gotten from Confederacy of Dunces.

>>9697884
The Room is a special brand of comedy that only people like Wiseau can unintentionally make. I might pick that book up then, it's written by the male supporting actor of the room right? Can't think of his name

>>9698633

Greg Sestero, I think. The book gives a fascinating (and hilarious) insight into the Kruger-Dunning effect, ie: the inverse correlation between a subject's competence in a particular field and his confidence in that field.

Catch 42
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Candy
The Loved One

>>9694838
Don Quixote.

>>9696547
> You can just skip those stories.

But you shouldn't. They're still brilliant.

>>9696319
>when that asshole shits in his bed

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I tried to shill for this on /lit/ and obviously still do .
Men are better than women is and will always be the quintessential piece maleterature and Dick Masterson the only writer who can produce such a beautiful prose while drunk and stands one might even say taller than Giants the likes of Joyce ,Pynchon and DFW . One random sentence taken from any chapter of the book is enough to prose-rape and sjw-trigger Marguirite Younge's entire Miss Macintosh my darling .
Definitely worth reading

>>9694849
Milo Minderbender is my hero

ironically shakespeare

>>9700043
unironically* ffs

>>9696441
I'm planning on reading that one too!

Probably Yes by Thomas Bernhard. Gravity's Rainbow is very funny as well.

naked lunch

Don Quijote is easily the funniest thing i've read. La Ciudad y los Perros comes as a close second

The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw had some nice banter, but that was just isolated pieces of dialogue.

>>9695903
i was going to post this
one of my favourite books ever
perfect lazy summer day reading

>>9700062
>Gravity's Rainbow is very funny as well.
The disgusting English sweets section is probably the funniest thing I've ever read

>>9700062
>>9702616
>100 pages left
>"Pynchon is probably to start wrapping shit up now"
>but first, let me spend nine pages on an immortal sentient light bulb

I fucking loved Byrons section.

Probably one of the Discworld books. The Last Continent, in particular, is one long extended shitpost about Australia

>>9695281
It's actually the highest form of art. The lowest is the tragedy.

>>9698676
I know this is /lit/ but wouldn't it be better as audio book?

>>9695482
Underrated post

>>9695581
>the bowl of petunias thought
>"oh no not again"

>>9696161
this. are we just pretending this isn't the funniest book ever written?

>>9694849
This.

White Noise made me laugh my ass off. Not the book in its entirety, but in quite a few spots.

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>>9702616
Been looking around for it and I can't even seem to find an ebook of it online. The fuck?

I hope they serve beer in hell

Anything by Wodehouse desu, especially anything to do with the Blandings crew

>>9694849
unfunny reddit book.
>>9694860
yes
>>9694869
yes

>>9694889
This is a surprisingly good book. I was expecting kind of a funny behind the scenes look, but it's actually a pretty impressive character study.

My Immortal. It just captures everything wrong with bad writing, and slowly ramps it up from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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>>9694838
who's the jakub wędrowycz of international literature?