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decky1 · 03-10-2018 2:02pm #1

can anyone recommend some books that are genuinely funny. Thanks.:D:):cool:

fryup · 03-10-2018 2:05pm

alan partridge books - i partridge and nomad

both hilarious

Guy:Incognito · 03-10-2018 2:05pm

https://www.easons.com/1001-cool-jokes-glen-singleton-9781743520703?gclid=Cj0KCQjw0dHdBRDEARIsAHjZYYDe2fiWlTKmHWIk5qUQQlboDqjd1ef5iJWYovW10Z8HJmRumZiMB2IaAj7fEALw_wcB

Conall Cernach · 03-10-2018 2:08pm

PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books.
Most of Terry Pratchett.
I will second I, Partridge and Nomad.

Autecher · 03-10-2018 2:10pm

Woody Allen's books Without Feathers & Getting Even. A collection of mostly very short stories with guaranteed laughs on every page.

MonkeyTennis · 03-10-2018 2:15pm

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330919.Adolf_Hitler

Spike Milligan

Roger Hassenforder · 03-10-2018 2:25pm

Tom Sharpe

Try "Wilt" to whet your appetite.

Lord Glentoran · 03-10-2018 2:39pm

MonkeyTennis wrote: »

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330919.Adolf_Hitler

Spike Milligan

All seven war books from “Adolf Hitler - My part in his Downfall” through to “Peace Work”. Utterly brilliant.

benjamin d · 03-10-2018 2:41pm

Catch 22 is the only book that genuinely had me laughing out loud. Hilarious and a great read too.

biko · 03-10-2018 2:41pm

Anything by Douglas Adams

Boom_Bap · 03-10-2018 2:42pm

There's a new book out recently about how people thought a magician died, but it was all a trick and he reappeared a few days later. Hilarious, a bit bulky though. Can't remember the name of it though.

chakotha · 03-10-2018 2:55pm

James Herriot's vet books. I've never laughed so much while reading.

Shenshen · 03-10-2018 2:59pm

Anything by Terry Pratchett, and the Hitchhiker's series by Douglas Adams.
Those are the only books that ever made me laugh out loud.

GBX · 03-10-2018 3:02pm

The bible ?

zanador · 03-10-2018 3:06pm

The World According to Garp is fantastically funny.

i71jskz5xu42pb · 03-10-2018 3:09pm

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

jiltloop · 03-10-2018 3:13pm

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is a great book and a funny read.

I Partridge is definitely the funniest book I've ever read.

I would also second Catch 22 and there is also another very funny book which is has similar quirkiness that I found very funny, The Third Policeman by our own Flann O'Brien, fantastically strange!

Another funny series of books once you get past the first few pages and get a sense of the main character is The Enderby Series by Anthony Burgess, 3 brilliant books with a very funny main character!

Porklife · 03-10-2018 3:27pm

jiltloop wrote: »

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is a great book and a funny read.

I Partridge is definitely the funniest book I've ever read.

I would also second Catch 22 and there is also another very funny book which is has similar quirkiness that I found very funny, The Third Policeman by our own Flann O'Brien, fantastically strange!

Another funny series of books once you get past the first few pages and get a sense of the main character is The Enderby Series by Anthony Burgess, 3 brilliant books with a very funny main character!

A Confederacy of dunces is my favourite book of all time. There's a statue of the main character in his home town cos he's such a legend. So funny!

WhatsGoingOn2 · 03-10-2018 3:33pm

The Superchick trilogy by Stephen Martin is very funny

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006VWR63A/

WhatsGoingOn2 · 03-10-2018 3:36pm

And the Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LB4O01I/

Not as funny, but a good mixture of crime, suspense and humour

Mint Sauce · 03-10-2018 4:00pm

Ronald Dahl, most are for kids, but still some funny moments. Or any of the Red Drawf books by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

BeerWolf · 03-10-2018 4:03pm

Discworld novels.

Absolutely loved Terry Pratchett's narrative and dry humour.

Morpork · 03-10-2018 4:06pm

Another vote for Discworld!!!!!

Dick Swiveller · 03-10-2018 4:07pm

Many Charles Dickens books. And it's real humour; not lots of shouty swear words.

JohnnyFlash · 03-10-2018 4:30pm

benjamin d wrote: »

Catch 22 is the only book that genuinely had me laughing out loud. Hilarious and a great read too.

One moderately funny joke spread out over 400 pages. The most overrated book ever printed. It’s like you have to say it’s hilarious.

The Flashman books are very funny. Loads of riding, cheating on cards, racism, drunkenness, cowardly behaviour, and being a rich cad in 1800’s London. Extremely politically incorrect, so not for sensitive types.

The Tetrarch · 03-10-2018 4:35pm

Rodney Dangerfield's biography
It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

jiltloop · 03-10-2018 4:44pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

One moderately funny joke spread out over 400 pages. The most overrated book ever printed. It’s like you have to say it’s hilarious.

The Flashman books are very funny. Loads of riding, cheating on cards, racism, drunkenness, cowardly behaviour, and being a rich cad in 1800’s London. Extremely politically incorrect, so not for sensitive types.

Many people disagree with you there, in fact you're the first dissenting voice I've come across, most people I know who've read it found it hilarious. It's all subjective of course, it's all just a matter of opinion but I'm not sure how you think it's just one joke spread out. What may I ask is the joke you're referring to in it?

Ipso · 03-10-2018 4:45pm

The first five Ross O'Carrol Kelly books are great (the rest are readable). Great satire for Ireland in the early 2000's.

JohnnyFlash · 03-10-2018 4:47pm

jiltloop wrote: »

Many people disagree with you there, in fact you're the first dissenting voice I've come across, most people I know who've read it found it hilarious. It's all subjective of course, it's all just a matter of opinion but I'm not sure how you think it's just one joke spread out. What may I ask is the joke you're referring to in it?

War is terrible and I’ll pretend I’m mad. I don’t like most of those ‘great American novels’ written in the 60’s and early 70’s though.

03-10-2018 5:01pm

While Pratchett was indeed very funny his Wizards and Witches world where most of his books were set is not really for everyone.

He co-wrote some books in a fantasy vein (called good omens) and a science vein similar to Bill Brysons "Short history of nearly everything" (called the science of discworld) which might be more up the street of anyone who wants humor but not magic and wizards.

benjamin d · 03-10-2018 5:13pm

jiltloop wrote: »

Many people disagree with you there, in fact you're the first dissenting voice I've come across, most people I know who've read it found it hilarious. It's all subjective of course, it's all just a matter of opinion but I'm not sure how you think it's just one joke spread out. What may I ask is the joke you're referring to in it?

I started rereading it for five minutes the other week because I saw a copy lying around somewhere and the bit about censoring the letters while in hospital in the first chapter had me almost in tears laughing again. That's within the first couple of pages. The on-going thread about what constitutes Catch 22 may be what he's referring to, but even that is brilliantly done.

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