What are some well written books that are hilarious so that I can actually enjoy having a laugh?
Apathy and Other Small Victories
>>25276366A walk in the woods
>>25276366Satyricon
>>25276366Everything by PG Wodehouse.
The restaurant at the end of the universe
The Red and the Black
>>25276366american psycho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Q3UsA3F-khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBHHgzyIxC0
>>25276400This book made me understand the Trve Glory of Rome like no other.
Don Quixote, the whole duke and duchess part blew my fucking sides laughingor how about this>XXVIII>Which treats of the strange and delightful adventure that befell the curate and the barber in the same Sierra.>Happy and fortunate were the times when that most daring knight Don Quixote of La Mancha was sent into the world; for by reason of his having formed a resolution so honourable as that of seeking to revive and restore to the world the long-lost and almost defunct order of knighterrantry, we now enjoy in this age of ours, so poor in light entertainment, not only the charm of his veracious history, but also of the tales and episodes contained in it which are, in a measure, no less pleasing, ingenious, and truthful, than the history itself which, resuming its thread, carded, spun, and wound, relates that just as the curate was going to offer consolation to Cardenio, he was interrupted by a voice that fell upon his ear saying in plaintive tones:>“O God! is it possible | have found a place that may serve as a secret grave for the weary load of this body that | support so unwillingly? If the solitude these mountains promise deceives me not, it is so; ah! woe is me! how much more grateful to my mind will be the society of these rocks and brakes that permit me to complain of my misfortune to Heaven, than that of any human being, for there is none on earth to look to for counsel in doubt, comfort in sorrow, or relief in distress!”>All this was heard distinctly by the curate and those with him, and as it seemed to them to be uttered close by, as indeed it was, they got up to look for the speaker, and before they had gone twenty paces they discovered behind a rock, seated at the foot of an ash tree, a youth in the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unable at the moment to see as he was leaning forward, bathing his feet in the brook that flowed past. They approached so silently that he did not perceive them, being fully occupied in bathing his feet, which were so fair that they looked like two pieces of shining crystal brought forth among the other stones of the brook.>The whiteness and beauty of these feet struck them with surprise, for they did not seem to have been made to crush clods or to follow the plough and the oxen as their owner’s dress suggested; and so, finding they had not been noticed, the curate, who was in front, made a sign to the other two to conceal themselves behind some fragments of rock that lay there; which they did, observing closely what the youth was about. He had on a loose double-skirted dark brown jacket bound tight to his body with a white cloth; he wore besides breeches and gaiters of brown cloth, and on his head a brown montera and he had the gaiters turned up as far as the middle of the leg, which verily seemed to be of pure alabaster.
>As soon as he had done bathing his beautiful feet, he wiped them with a towel he took from under the montera, on taking off which he raised his face, and those who were watching him had an opportunity of seeing a beauty so exquisite that Cardenio said to the curate in a whisper:>“As this is not Luscinda, it is no human creature but a divine being.”>The youth then took off the montera, and shaking his head from side to side there broke loose and spread out a mass of hair that the beams of the sun might have envied; by this they knew that what had seemed a peasant was a lovely woman, nay the most beautiful the eyes of two of them had ever beheld, or even Cardenio’s if they had not seen and known Luscinda, for he afterwards declared that only the beauty of Luscinda could compare with this.
>>25276377The way I used to be like this like I’d just be in class trying to hold my laughter every single day
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>>25276585Hoe you think I can read this with my math degree
>>25276377Do you think he gets mad when they laugh at him?
Mark Twain is a genuinely funny guy in his non Tom Sawyer/ Huck Finn based writing. Innocents Abroad and Roughing It are both good depending on your subject preference
>>25276377I have run into people like this on this website quite a bit
>>25276366Patrick F. McManus. He writes about outdoorsmanship and childhood in rural Idaho in the early 1900s. Not only is he very funny, he can be very evocative and comfy.
>>25276366A Confederacy of Dunces
>>25276366Pretty much anything by Terry Pratchett
>>25276587This is probably the only book ever to consistently have me in tears
>>25276613Same, I rarely laugh out loud while reading but that book got me over and over again.
>>25276610Can confirm, Ignatius' insults are pure gold
>>25276402Where should I start with him? The Jeeves series ran for 60 years apparently
>>25276622The first Jeeves novel, obviously
>>25276366Gargantua and PantagruelConfidence-Man: His MasqueradeUlyssesGravity's Rainbow
>>25276622>>25276623I would say to start with the short stories predating the novelshttps://www.amazon.com/World-Jeeves-Wooster-Omnibus/dp/0099514230
>>25276591I don't even have a GED and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
>>25276591Read Ratner's Star
>>25276366https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVjJRDjfXTk
>>25276366books just aren't a good medium for humor
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>>25276680man, shut your dumb ass up
