What are some genuinely fun books
Mason & DixonAnything by WodehouseAnything by Swartzwelder
>>24740922Gargantua and Pantagruel Tristram ShandyMoby-DickConfidence-Man: His MasqueradeAlice in WonderlandBuddenbrooks UlyssesMagic Mountain Gravity's Rainbow
>>24740934I want to read Moby Dick within October. Which edition do you recommend?
>>24740954>I want helpful notes and extra essaysNorton Critical Edition>I want a quality hardcoverEveryman's LibraryThis is my go-to setup for most authors.For Moby-Dick you also have the option of getting https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html but it's probably best to save it for a reread
>>24740922Candide by Voltaire. Short and very silly.
>>24740973I've heard good words about the NCE. Is the Third Edition any good?
>>24740922Are the Flashman novels actually fun or are they just a meme?
Three Men in a Boat
all quiet on the orient express
>>24740934>Magic Mountain>fun
>>24741094Settembrini, Naphta and Mynheer Peeperkorn are all comedy gold
>>24740922The Brothers Karamazov.
American Psycho
>>24740922>Anything by WodehouseSeconding this.
>>24740922The Trial
>>24740922Ancient epics
>>24741094But I went there in 2011 when I was on vacation and I had a great time there.
Fanged Noumena
>>24740922This is a genuinely awful meme and it annoys me every time someone posts it. It fails to understand the intended irony of the meme format that it's poorly imitating.
>>24741064yes
Confederacy of Dunces. Ignatius is hilarious.
>>24741735hell yeah brotherthe audio book narrator is top tier too
The Holy Bible (KJV)
The first half of Demons by Dostoevsky. I didn't read the second half, but it could also be, too.
>>24740933>wow, what a coincidence, both books are titled "anything"...Is suicide my only option?
>>24741820Read Leave it to Psmith instead of killing yourself
>>24740922harry potter
>>24741920Is that part of the Leave It to Beaver shared universe?
>>24740922The Good Soldier Svejk
Get a Rumpole of the Bailey omnibus.
>>24740934>Just posts /lit/core
>>24740922reading shouldn't be "fun"
>>24742067>The delegation, present in full force, consisted of Commendatore Bacibaci Beninobenone (the semiparalysed doyen of the party who had to be assisted to his seat by the aid of a powerful steam crane), Monsieur Pierrepaul Petitépatant, the Grandjoker Vladinmire Pokethankertscheff, the Archjoker Leopold Rudolph von Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler, Countess Marha Virága Kisászony Putrápesthi, Hiram Y. Bomboost, Count Athanatos Karamelopulos, Ali Baba Backsheesh Rahat Lokum Effendi, Señor Hidalgo Caballero Don Pecadillo y Palabras y Paternoster de la Malora de la Malaria, Hokopoko Harakiri, Hi Hung Chang, Olaf Kobberkeddelsen, Mynheer Trik van Trumps, Pan Poleaxe Paddyrisky, Goosepond Prhklstr Kratchinabritchisitch, Borus Hupinkoff, Herr Hurhausdirektorpresident Hans Chuechli-Steuerli, Nationalgymnasiummuseumsanatoriumandsuspensoriumsordinaryprivatdocentgeneralhistoryspecialprofessordoctor Kriegfried Ueberallgemein. >Osbie Feel stands in the minstrels' gallery, holding one of the biggest of Pirate's bananas so that it protrudes out the fly of his striped pajarna bottoms—stroking with his other hand the great jaundiced curve in triplets against 4/4 toward the ceiling, he acknowledges dawn with the following: >Time to gather your arse up off the floor,>(have a bana-na)There's a reason they're /lit/core mate
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is 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.
>>24740934>t. /lit/ pseud who doesn't read>>24742072There are much more efficient hobbies to pose with to look smart than reading. You might wanna try those.
>>24742092A pseud would want you to believe that Ulysses is a life-changing, deeply emotional experience, instead of the hilarious romp that it is.>The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.
>>24740922John Barth's books are tremendously fun. Give The Sot-Weed Factor or Giles Goat-Boy a shot.
>"Say something provocative.">Slothrop sticks his head out in the long tunnel and hollers, in his most English accent, "Major Marvy sucks!">"Up this way!" Sounds of galloping GI boots, nailheads smacking the concrete and a lot of other ominous metal too going snick . . . snick . . .>"Now," beams mischievous Glimpf, setting the hoist in motion.>A fresh thought occurs to Slothrop. He puts his head back out and inhales deeply, "Major Marvy sucks NIGGERS!"
the sun also rises made me laugh a couple times i love that alcoholic castrato so much
>>24740922Catch-22>>24741071They're not exactly laugh out loud funny but they're incredibly entertaining if you enjoy assholes and general banditry.
>>24740922Gargantua and PantagruelDangerous LiaisonsThe Count of Monte CristoBouvard and PécuchetExercises in StyleLife: A User's Manual
>>24742182>Bouvard and PécuchetSounds fun. Which translation would you recommend?
>>24742090Very true and why I recommended Mason & Dixon
