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Hilarious Reads

I recommend:
"Night of the Avenging Blowfish" and "Begin to Exit Here" by John Welter. Very funny, very subtle.
 
StarChild42 said:
Most recent thing I read that made me laugh out loud was Jerome K Jerome's Three Men In A Boat. Which really surprised me!
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Right there at the top of this page :rolleyes:

Phil :D
 
Those who like Bill Bryson and Tony Hawks might also want to check out Australian writer Peter Moore, especially his guide "No Sh*tting in the Toilet", which is certainly enough to put the virgin backpacker off. He has a pretty good website here .

Although not related to the above, Brit Tim Moore has written similar books. I've only read one, a trip around the British Monopoly board called "Do Not Pass Go" by "Continental Drifter" and "French Revolutions" sound good.

For a bit more blarney for "Round Ireland..." fans, there's Pete McCarthy's books "McCarthy's Bar" and "The Road to McCarthy" too.

On a related subject, but fiction, is William Sutcliffe's "Are You Experienced?" which sounds to me like a far more realistic account of what backpacking in India is really like than the romantic notion that is often put across.

I also gave as a gift to a hardened traveller friend a wicked mickey take of the "Lonely Planet/Rough Guide" type book, the Jetlag Guide to Molvania - the land that dentistry forgot, which he said was spot on.

For funny crime, check Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series and the novels of Carl Hiaasen.
 
Grammath said:
I also gave as a gift to a hardened traveller friend a wicked mickey take of the "Lonely Planet/Rough Guide" type book, the Jetlag Guide to Molvania - the land that dentistry forgot, which he said was spot on.
Oo! I'd forgotten about this one! I second that - very humourous, either as cover-to-cover read or a 'bathroom' reader. You can pick it up anywhere in the book and be entertained!

Another one I thought of is John Stewart's America, which contains a fair amount of hilarity. Although I think his show 'The Daily Show' is only screened in the US and Canada, this book stands alone as a sardonic look at American politics. And not just to one party or leader, either!! The way it is set out makes it look rather like a magazine in parts - lots of colour, little tit-bits here and there. And it's a little like the website 'The Onion' in it's writing. Even if you've never given a damn about American politics, the writing of this one makes it well worth a look at in your local bookstore. Sorry, it's difficult to describe beyond that!!
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Plum Series - Evanovich

Janet Evanovich's series about Stephanie Plum is HILARIOUS. Stephanie is a flailing female bounty hunter with a penchance for blowing up cars! The series has ten novels and a novela. The eleventh novel is coming out this summer. The first book is called One For the Money.
 
The 'Ronan the Barbarian' series by James Bibby is great.
Its a bit of a middle earth piss take -with elves that get hammered by drinking sea water, hence their love of the sea!
There are plenty of humerous plays on words -One character travels up a mountain called Tor y Amos!
 
Halo said:
Forgot about Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, that's really funny. Some of Ben Elton's books aren't bad either.
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Recently found and read Cold Comfort Farm - indeed a funny book, probably a lot more funny if you remember all those required reading dreary English lit rural novels that the book is sending up. Seems to strike at the heart of a problem I have with a lot of drama or literature, i.e. the fact that many plot problems could be resolved in 15 minutes or less by anyone with a 3 digit IQ.
 
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