Noo wrote: » I read this on holiday 13 years ago (oh crap that makes me feel old) and remember really enjoying it. I cant remember any particulars so i must give it another read.
mud wrote: » Most of Kurt Vonnegut's books are hilariously dark.
Living in Berlin just before the second world war, everything goes wrong for Egon Loeser, and it has nothing to do with the Nazis. In Ned Beauman's terrific second novel, longlisted this week for the Booker, his protagonist, a German set designer, is too sex-starved, self-pitying and, usually, hungover to notice that history is happening all around him.
Zaph wrote: » It's already been mentioned, but Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is the funniest book I've ever read. And obviously The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is a work of genius. But if you decide to read all the Hitch Hikers books, do not under any circumstances go near the one written by Eoin Colfer. It's the biggest streaming pile of sh*te ever committed to paper. Douglas Adams was probably spinning at high speed in his grave after it was published.
‘So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?’ I asked. He blinked at me as if I were stupid. ‘Well what do you think you do?’ he said. ‘You die of course. That’s what deadly means.’
El Weirdo wrote: » I, Partridge. The audiobook version.
holy guacamole wrote: » Although they tend to deal with quite serious subject matters Irvine Welsh's earlier works are some of the funniest books I've ever read. From Trainspotting through to Ecstasy, The Maribou Stork Nightmares and Glue, he creates worlds and characters that'll have you laughing out loud every few pages.
holy guacamole wrote: » Although they tend to deal with quite serious subject matters Irvine Welsh's earlier works are some of the funniest books I've ever read. From Trainspotting through to Ecstasy, The Maribou Stork Nightmares and Glue, he creates worlds and characters that'll have you laughing out loud every few pages. Another hilarious book which follows a similar style of humour is Kill your Friends by John Niven. Again, the comedy is as black as coal but so long as you'e not easily offended you should love it.
the evasion_kid wrote: » “The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist’s pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter.” Think this was the opening sentence of the book,Tony hawkes travels around Ireland with a fridge has that same kind of situational humour
Birneybau wrote: » The Charlie Brooker collections of articles, both on t.v. and general life, are pretty damn funny.
Howard the Duck wrote: » So i'm going away for a week soon and i'm looking for funny books to read. If you go into a book shop and go to the humour section it's normally full of joke books and cartoon strips. I'm more into novels or non-fiction. Some of my favourites are Frank Skinner's autobiography and David Sedaris books. What are some of yours?
harry Bailey esq wrote: » Filth,penned by Irvine Welsh.Ive re-read it countless times, the film doesn't do it justice at all
No man is taken till a black hole is hollowed in the world to the depth of his two oxters and he put into it to gaze from it with his lonely head and nothing to him but his shield and a stick of hazel. Then must nine warriors fly their spears at him, one with the other and together. If he be spear-holed past his shield, or spear-killed, he is not taken for want of shield-skill. No man is taken till he is run by warriors through the woods of Erin with his hair bunched-loose about him for bough-tangle and briar-twitch. Should branches disturb his hair or pull it forth like sheep-wool on a hawthorn, he is not taken but is caught and gashed. Weapon-quivering hand or twig-crackling foot at full run, neither is taken. Neck-high sticks he must pass by vaulting, knee-high sticks by stooping. With the eyelids to him stitched to the fringe of his eye-bags, he must be run by Finn's people through the bogs and the marsh-swamps of Erin with two odorous prickle-backed hogs ham-tied and asleep in the seat of his hempen drawers. If he sink beneath a peat-swamp or lose a hog, he is not accepted of Finn's people.
applehunter wrote: » Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Klapka Jerome is the earliest book I can remember that really made me laugh out loud.
