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What's the funniest book you have ever read? Calvin and Hobbes or David Sedaris? Who makes you laugh?





Most of the threads in this section are serious so thought I would lighten things up.





- April 1st, 2009, 07:05 am
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John Dies at the End by David Wong


I don't know any other author who is able to blend comedy, horror, and philosophy quite like David Wong does.


A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole


Has another comedy novel ever won a Pulitzer Prize? I also recommend The Neon Bible by the same author.
- April 10th, 2009, 04:16 pm
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EugeneDammrod wrote :

John Dies at the End by David Wong


I don't know any other author who is able to blend comedy, horror, and philosophy quite like David Wong does.


A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole


Has another comedy novel ever won a Pulitzer Prize? I also recommend The Neon Bible by the same author.
A Confederacy of Dunces is on my list of to be read books!


Will have to look into the David Wong book. Never heard of him.


Love David Sedaris and Stephen Colbert's I Am America cracked me up.


Just got an audio book of short stories by Mark Twain from the library. An oldie but goodie.
- April 10th, 2009, 08:33 pm
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I liked the cofederacy of dunces as well. The one I am going to recommend is "Freddy and Fredericka" by Mark Halprin. It's one of the funniest books ever--I listened to it on audiobook and I think it was even better that way.


It's a parody of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. He's very well meaning but always screws things up. She's very stupid and shallow. Through a stange test to prove his fitness to become king, they both end up dropped into New Jersey, wearing animal skins, with no money and Freddy's assignment is to "recapture the former colony" within one year. They have the most amazing and bizarre series of adventures as they travel across the country. They begin to bond through their hardships and actually learn to love each other. By the end of the book, Freddy is in a position where he could actually accomplish the task. I'm not doing justice to it by my description, but I got my sister listening to it as well and she told me she had to pull over to the side of the road as she was laughing too hard to keep driving....
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Dave Barry's "Book of Bad Songs" is one of the funniest books I've ever read. You'll be nodding your head either agreeing or disagreeing with the music from your past. I let my son read it and I never got it back!
- April 13th, 2009, 08:04 pm
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Got to read "The Baby in the Bag, A Politically Incorrect Tale". This totally cracked me up. It's about how groups use political incorectness to push their agendas, in this case, the dwarf community.


Second is "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon - Tyrone Slothrop is a very strange character!
- April 25th, 2009, 06:59 am
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"The Baby in the Bag, A Politically Incorrect Tale"


"Gravity's Rainbow"


"Give War a Chance"


"Parliment of Whores"
- April 25th, 2009, 07:01 am
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vedalisa wrote :

Dave Barry's "Book of Bad Songs" is one of the funniest books I've ever read. You'll be nodding your head either agreeing or disagreeing with the music from your past. I let my son read it and I never got it back!
So true! I was going to post this, and then saw that you'd beaten me to it! My favorite part is where his son asks him about the lyrics to MacArthur Park" and Barry quotes the chorus, "someone left the cake out in the rain...I don't think that I can TAKE it cause it took so long to BAKE it", etc. The kid is rolling off his chair laughing and then finally says, "very funny, Dad. So, what does the song really say?"


Anne Lamott's "Traveling Mercies" is very funny and very serious in equal parts; but in all parts wonderful. If you know anyone who thinks that their life is so screwed up that they cannot ever find their way to faith, buy them that book.
- April 26th, 2009, 09:24 pm
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Any of the Terry Pratchett's Discworld series


The Curse of the Concullen's by Florence Stevenson ( humorous tongue-in-cheekGothic Romance)


Household by Florence Stevenson (similar to the above but spans several generations of the same family and their trials and tribulations)


Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
- April 27th, 2009, 01:47 am
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