what are the funniest books ever?
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Catch-22, Confederacy of Dunces, and this are my top 3
My big three: Wodehouse, Swartzwelder, and Norm's book.
>Norm's book
I liked it, but expected a tad more, given its reputation
maybe it was due to having heard a lot of its material being told by him on his show and his standup routine before
I can see where you are coming, his book is a bit like a compendium of his greatest works, but I still love how he trashes Adam the whole way through.
Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones, though Heller and Toole were good too.
does the comedy in these old works actually ring true today?
Not one of them but I read Roughing It by Twain and that holds up as funny
tom jones is more of a pleasant comfy read. its more like two books in one: a picaresque adventure story and essay relating to theater; which I think his opinions on theater can still be adapted for cinema. not totally hilariously but its a fun read.
Tristram shandy is a proto post modernist book. if you like mason and Dixon and sot weed factor, I think you'll enjoy this book, it has a more earthy tone for its humor
damon runyon
I'd put The Poor Mouth pretty far up there, but I suspect you need to be at least vaguely familiar with Irish History and culture to get the humour.
The Flashman series is also good for a few laughs.
Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had me dying when I was 14
I read it as an adult, and it was too reddit for my taste
felt like a scrapped Futurama script
Yeah, it's really unfortunate how the original works that ended up molding every tumblrina and reddit sweatlord's sense of humor get dragged down by that legacy.
I still really enjoy the series, but I get turning your nose up at it for that reason.
I remember our school had a field trip to a renaissance faire. walking though it, I passed this kid; wearing German flecktarn, those thin rectangle glasses, and he was carrying this thick volume that contain all books in the series. he was just walking around with passing by knights and people with pointy ears
The Bible
There is some truth to this; the Bible certainly gives a man a sense of humor better than any other 'book' I know. Maybe the pure can see the humor in its stories better than I can, too.
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_claus.html
Not my favorite translation but this is up there.
Yes but not this translation
Which one is better?
Guerney is the best. I own Maguire, that one's good too
Moby Dick is surprisingly hilarious
I think the point is to find books that are actually comedic stories, not just books that have a sense of humor or some funny moments in them. many books have that.
this, thank you
there is a lot of comedic production in most media, but not so much in literature
most stuff you'd find categorised as comedic books is written by comedians, who aren't always the best prose writers, and most of them are biographies
Parts (admittedly not all of the book) of Suttree were very funny. Harrogate was a great comic character
theres a lot of black comedy in blood meridian if you could view it as that. i was amused by when the boy was talking about the weather and the judge accused the preacher
"Combination grocer and prostitutehouse"
I like Mathematics made difficult, by linderholm. It's the best of its kind.
Wilt.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Gulliver's Travels yet. That shit is hilarious
>what are the funniest books ever?
Greek tragedies.
Euripides' Bacchae was kinda funny I guess, I dunno about the other ones. Not a greek but Lucian's True History actually holds up as quite funny to this day.
You should read this.
Alcestis is one of the strangest things I’ve ever read. I don’t know what to make of it
Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
The Good Soldier Svejk
the author of catch-22 was inspired by it
A Horse's Head by Evan Hunter (1967).
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut