What's the funniest book you've read?
Based On a True Story by Norm Macdonald
David Sedaris’ first couple books had me sitting there laughing out loud like some kind of homo. Don’t think any other books made me laugh like some queer while reading.
Not exactly highbrow, but there is a Wuxia webnovel called "A Will Eternal" that honestly made me laugh. And laugh hard. I'm a jaded person who hardly ever laughs.
>>24951462Don Quixote was funny. And that was a big surprise because I didnt think a book from the year 3000 BC would be funny. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was even funnier, though. It was so over the top, so hateful, and so insane.
this is the funniest book ever. such a shame that he killed himself
lucky jim by kingsley amis.here’s his description of a hangover.
>>24951738Not funny.
>>24951750think it’s possible many americans don’t quite get why amis is funny.
>>24951462Dead Souls and Candide
>>24951462Pickwick Papers or Death on Credit
>>24951754I’m British and it’s not funny.Ned Ryder scenes in Brideshead are funny
>>24951462my favorite. I have that edition>candide was also very funny. and Confederacy of Dunces
>>24951763christ
>>24951772>“Ho ho I’m quoting Kingsley Amis, he's bound to be correct”Anon I..
>>24951788really bad book, even by not-waugh standards. it's extraordinary how snobbish and boring and soft-headed it is in a sort of neo-beverly nichols vein.& as an aside i feel like a british person wouldn’t say ‘i’m british’ like that, you’d say english or from the UK.
>>24951791>& as an aside i feel like a british person wouldn’t say ‘i’m british’ like that, you’d say english or from the UK.well then you don’t know what you’re talking about
>>24951798got any ID?
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>>24951821why’d you write /mu/?
>>24951825To get it through that skull of yours
>>24951827we’re on /lit/
>>24951829Now THAT’S funny
>>24951829>>24951832(I just wrote /mu/ by mistake)
>>24951834and then you had the temerity to say this >>24951827
I loved Confederacy of Dunces :D
>>24951462Dog of the South was pretty funny.
>>24951838What can I say? Touché. Point about Brideshead stands tho. I don’t find the Catholic stuff compelling either. But the stuff with Ned Ryder when Charles comes back from his first term at Oxford and his father is always reading a book at dinner until Charles decides to bring a book and then his father, noticing, furtively drops his book to one side and says “let’s have some conversation” and all those antics like that.
>>24951462A Confederacy of Dunces, but I know someone IRL that is a less successful version of Ignatius, so that may contribute.
>>24951865>He was entrancing, with that epicene beauty that in extreme youth cries aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind>The languor of youth (sorry, Youth) - how unique and quintessential it is!>I was made free of her narrow loinsi may have missed the irony, but i cannot believe a man could write as badly as that for fun.ever read waugh’s first (best) book? some good bits about the welsh. also much closer to >>24951738>What can I say?i can think of one or two things
>>24951882>i cannot believe a man could write as badly as that for fun.Your problem is you mistake good writing for bad and vice versa. Explain the Amis fixation.>ever read waugh’s first (best) book?No but I mean to, I’ve heard that passage before, in a documentary about waugh
>>24951894>I mean toyou’ll dislike it i think.not sure why he thought that the way to avoid writing as he did in the 30s (which was quite well) is to write as BAD WRITERS did in the 30s.
the bit with the shitty british sour candies in Gravity's Rainbow made me chuckle
Confederacy of dunces, catch 22, antkind
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>>24951738>and then as its mausoleum.Holy kek.
>>24951462Probably Barry Trotter or The Soddit when I was 14. At the time getting a taste of counter-pop-culture was hilarious.
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>>24951462The Pickwick Papers and Norm's bookAuthors would be Wodehouse and Swartzwelder
>>24951462I actually don't recommend reading it as you will come to see just how many modern authors and even comedians are completely derivative hacks. (Vonnegut in particular who deserve exhumation and crucifixion upside down for his kleptocratic writings)
