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Subject: What's the funniest book you've read?

Posted by: alaspooryoric
Date: Dec 16 10

I would have to say a tie between Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Tim O'Brien's "Tomcat in Love." A close second would be John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces." If one could count a play as a book, then I might say Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."

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lesn
wow I honestly thought he had died. Thanks for that!

Reply #61. Feb 06 19, 3:19 AM
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1066 and All That
How to be Canadian
You Know You're from Manitoba If....

Reply #62. Apr 08 19, 5:42 PM
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Catch 22 by Heller

Reply #63. Aug 26 20, 5:15 PM
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Even Cowgirls Get The Blues by Robbins. You can't stop laughing out loud. Very very sharp satire.

Reply #64. Aug 26 20, 5:17 PM
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Any one of Carl Hiaasen's early novels.

Reply #65. Sep 06 20, 12:36 PM
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker books, especially the first two, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" are unsurpassed IMO. I have read other funny books though. One that comes to mind is "Asimov Laughs Again," which is a compendium of limericks, anecdotes, jokes and the like. Guaranteed to give you a smile.

Reply #66. Sep 14 20, 2:50 PM
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"The World's Most Honest Politicians"-a VERY quick read:-)

Reply #67. Jan 29 21, 12:30 PM
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Most of Marian Keyes' books. She's really comical.

Reply #68. Feb 10 21, 2:36 AM
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“Never Stand Too Close To a Naked Man” by Tim Allen

Reply #69. Feb 16 21, 11:35 PM
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Tom Sharpe. Blott on the Landscape and the Wilt series.

Reply #70. Jul 10 21, 10:47 PM
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'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy. The parts with Constantine Levin make me laugh so hard.

Reply #71. Jan 06 23, 12:45 AM
lordprescott
"The Golden Ocean" by Patrick O'Brian. Pure, classic humor.

Reply #72. Jan 12 23, 3:31 PM
David_M
Anyone of Spike Milligan books.

Reply #73. Feb 15 23, 7:19 PM
Philip_Eno
^ Me too

Reply #74. Feb 17 23, 1:57 AM


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