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What are the funniest books you've read?
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>>25627071
Confederacy of Dunces, Gravity's Rainbow, Catch-22, Princess Bride, and Alice in Wonderland which is shockingly good and clever in its wordplay for a Victorian children's book.
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>>25627071
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Everytime that they talk about that guy Jim
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>>25627087
Alice is Wonderland is so entertaining
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>>25627071
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Don Quixote, unlimited funnies and jests especially in the second half
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>>25627223
What’s funny about it?
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Well, just about anything from Wodehouse or Pratchett.
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>>25627071
>What are the funniest books you've read?
The first part of Job.
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>>25627902
>Wodehouse

THIS
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Sot Weed Factor
Assisted Living
Last Exit to Brooklyn
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Catch-22 is simultaneously the funniest and probably the most tragic book I've ever read. It's quite a feat.
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>>25627071
The Jeeves and Wooster books
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A Dance to the Music of Time
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>>25628522
If you like sci-fi you should check out the 1965 sarire Bill the Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison. Basically catch-22 in space with pisstaking at Starship Troopers and Foundation.
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This had funny parts.
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>>25630566
He doesn't die at the end though
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>>25627902
>>25628295
>>25628659
Agreed. Its Wodehouse. The answer to so many of life's problems.
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>>25627071
Kind of a weird one, Treasury of New England Folklore, in the section of the book covering rhymes. After that probably Flashman.
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American Psycho
Notes From Underground
The Magic Mountain
nothing quite as funny as a good portrait of mental illness and degeneracy
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>>25627071
Autumn in Peking
The Skin of Dreams
The Dead Father
The Anti-Death League
White Noise
Woodcutters
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The End of the Road
Today I Wrote Nothing
G.
Moscow-Petushki
Adios Scheherezade
The Great American Novel
Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories
Crash by Ballard
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana
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>>25627071
The Decameron
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>>25627071
I've laughed myself to tears with two books: a play by Tchekhov that takes place in a bank, I think it was called The Anniversary or something like that, and Master and Margarita, when someone falls down a staircase.
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The wimpy kid version of Elliott Rogers diary
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Flashman
Canterbury Tales
Bill Bryson's stuff (albeit I was young)
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>>25627071
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas is fucking hilarious, I don't give a FUCK if pussyassed /lit/ psueds disagree.
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>>25632424
It is hilarious. Thompson truly didn't give a fuck about who he offended.
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>>25632424
It is weak and the piss dribbling down his leg in anticlimax meant he didn't know what the fuck he was doing. Needed a free helicopter ride.
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^ cuck
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cyclops episode of Ulysses has some hilarious scenes, specially with the dog
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>>25627839
>explain why that joke is funny
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>>25630876
This.
>“Good evening, Jeeves.”
>“Good morning, sir.”
>This surprised me.
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>>25632424
It's full of the most inauthentic, normie-oriented accounts of drug use ever committed to paper. Thompson was a fake.
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>>25632501
You've never done drugs in your entire life Timmy.
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>>25632515
I've done LSD, and it's nothing like how Thompson describes.
I've done mescaline too, and ditto.
Admittedly, I've never chewed on an adrenal gland, because the whole idea is fucking retarded.
Once again, Thompson was a fake. But he fooled a lot of normies, including you apparently.
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>>25627071

The Onion's Our Dumb Century is easily the best. Nothing has topped it since I came across it while young. It even has a Finnegan[']s Wake blurb in one page.
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>>25632520
You're the exact same schizophrenic that tears down any and all Thompson threads. The exact. same. fucking WACKO.

Get a fucking LIFE you goddamned L O S E R.
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>>25632533
>not an argument
Surrender accepted.
Try drugs. They'll broaden your mind.
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>>25632539
I've done:
LSD once
Salvia three or four times
Psilocybin at least a dozen times
Cocaine once
And one failed attempt at making tea out of a peyote cactus.

Suck. My. Dick.
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>>25632547
>and you're still convinced by Thompson
Get yourself checked for retardation.
As for your need to get your dick sucked by other men, I can't help you with that.
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>>25632553
I said it was a funny book, retard. That's literally it. Deepthroat a shotgun, Tardzilla.
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>>25632557
>You've never done drugs in your entire life Timmy
My, what a short memory. Retardation check: positive.
>Deepthroat a shotgun
You mean like Hunter?
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>>25632595
LMAO
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my diary desu
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>>25627071
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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good soldier svejk
the twelve chairs
at swim two birds
molloy
three men in a boat
christie malry's own double entry
the petty demon

and ofc confederacy, gargantua, don quixote

>>25630924
good list

seconding bernhard, de assis, erofeev



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