Lazarus_Long is offline Lazarus_Long Post #11  September 3,2009, 12:44pm
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I love Terry Pratchet, he is one of Britain's best political satirists.

I personally loved the book he and Niel Gaiman wrote called Good Omens.

A good story about the end of days and how a demon and an angel try to sabotage Lucifer's plan to bring it about because they have become so fond of "life on earth"...
 
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meri75 is offline meri75 Post #12  September 5,2009, 11:18pm
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I don't usually find books to be funny.

I love the Footrot Flats comic series! When I was in my teens, Dad banned me from reading it in bed, because I would laugh so hard I wouldn't sleep! They are playing cricket in the snippet below.

 
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Dysfunctional Family Christmas Song Book.
It is a song book, but they re-worked all the orginal christmas carols. Very relatable to the everyday american family, and super funny. With songs like Grandpa's Drunk and O Holy Fight.
 
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Jacquesne is offline Jacquesne Post #14  November 3,2009, 10:03am
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I think one of the funniest books I've ever read primarily because it was the first of his books I'd read and was totally not expecting it was The Complete Guide to Guys by Dave Barry. I saw the title and immediately thought "Hah! Like anyone knows everything about guys..." and I couldn't put it down once I started reading it. Truly hilarious. His other books are likewise funny and Big Trouble is a fantastic novel. It does help that I lived in Miami for 4 years and am familiar with most of the areas but his description of sports talk radio makes me laugh every time. Oh, and when the guy gets poisoned by the frog and sees a demonic Elizabeth Dole head on the dog I was completely cracking up. Good times.

I've read a lot of humor out there including Pratchett and there are lots of different types of humor. Pratchett is great at satirical humor and I do think Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite comic series. But for straight up laughing-out-loud-until-your-coffee-comes-out-your-nose guffaws Dave Barry is my favorite.

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I'm new to the reading field except for the scores of books I read in college, but I am really enjoying this book on Philosophy by Ed Feser called :"The Last Superstition." He goes on the attack about how Secularism has become everything it says it hates. He is uber funny. I didn't think you could blend humor with philosophy, but apparently you can. worth the read.
 
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You can't have such a list and not include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
 
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I'm SHOCKED that no one mentioned the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy! The short chapter dealing with the falling whale was the funniest (and saddest) thing I think I've ever read!
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Please read the Nursery Crime books. They are OFF the wall!

Here is the description of the first book and I’m openly plagiarizing it from Amazon ...
Det. Jack Spratt, the dedicated but underappreciated investigator in the Reading, England, Nursery Crimes Division, is depressed because the court finds the three little pigs "not guilty of all charges relating to the first-degree murder of Mr. Wolff." Working with an ambitious young detective, Mary Mary ("Quite Contrary"), Spratt later takes on the case of "fall guy" Humpty Dumpty. Fforde crafts a police procedural out of this bizarre alternative universe that prizes, as The Eyre Affair does, literacy (detectives, for example, garner recognition less for solving crimes than by writing articles about cases for the likes of Amazing Crime Stories or Sleuth Illustrated). While it can be charming to encounter Mrs. Hubbard or Tom Thomm or to hear Spratt bemoan "illegal straw-into-gold dens" in this unusual context, the novel's broad satire overshadows elements like plot, conflict and characterization. The result is unusually clever but not compelling in the least.

This is a quirky series that lets you escape for a moment. Just go with it!!
 
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legend29 is offline legend29 Post #19  February 13,2010, 11:18am
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Hands down..."Catcher in the Rye"!

I read mostly non-fiction but I had to read the book in 8th grade and never forgot the ramblings and adventures of Holden Caufield!!!!...a truly funny book...

Rest in Peace J.D..... I for one hope there are loads of maunscripts just waiting to be read in that safe!
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gcoleman99 wrote :
I'm SHOCKED that no one mentioned the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy! The short chapter dealing with the falling whale was the funniest (and saddest) thing I think I've ever read!
Yes! I was waiting for that, thanks coleman.

I have never read a more hilarious, ridiculous and outlandish trilogy in all my life. To be honest, I got so burned out on Douglas Adams' bizarre journey, that I put down "Life, the Universe, and Everything" when I was only half way through, but it remains on the top of my list for sheer humor value.

If you havent' read book 2, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", I would highly recommend it.
 
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