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Laugh Out Loud Funny

drmjwdvm said:
Also "A Walk in the Woods" Bill Bryson. The scene when he purchases the back pack and finds out he needs a backpack cover in case it rains nearly made me pee my pants.:D
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That sounds hilarious! I might give it a try, I have 'Notes From A Small Island' waiting to be read as well.
 
Pinecones360 said:
i just finished reading small gods. i loved it, but it's not for those that are devoutly religious though, or so i would think. it makes fun of religious dogma. it's by terry pratchett btw.
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If you enjoyed the fun poking at the religious dogma then can I recommend Good Omens by by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, if you haven’t already read it. A damned good read and a particularly good time to read it with The Omen being re-done.
 
The Kid by Dan Savage. It's the story of Dan and his boyfriend trying to adopt a child. The funniest part of the book, had Dan worrying that no one would pick them (they were doing an open adoption) because he had a hard time picturing a girl who would choose to give their baby up for adoption (his theory was that any girl that would choose him and his boyfriend to adopt her baby would be more likely to have an abortion). Anyway, he's talking about the kind of girl that seem to go through this agency and how he can't imagine that type of girl turning the page, seeing Dan and Terry's picture and saying "That's it, fags! I want to give my baby to FAGS!!!!" which i think is hilarioue just as a stand alone, but in the context of the book it made me laugh so hard I scared the cat.
 
Carrot said:
If you enjoyed the fun poking at the religious dogma then can I recommend Good Omens by by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, if you haven’t already read it. A damned good read and a particularly good time to read it with The Omen being re-done.
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thanks. i have been meaning to read it, but i went to get it from the library and alas it was checked out. so i await may 31st when it comes back.:(
 
Can You Keep A Secret? S. Kinsella...the shopaholic series (4 books in all) are funny too, but secret, made me laugh so hard, woke my hubby up!
 
Vonnegut, Foer, Heller

for me, i would say Kurt Vonnegut... I love his way of interpreting the Third Law of Motion in Slaughterhouse five... :D

Everything is illuminated made me laugh very badly... at the end of the book, i was both crying and laughing... oh my gosh...

Catch-22 didn't work for me... yes, there were laugh-out-loud moments but i had trouble finishing it because i just don't really enjoy his kinda writing style...
 
A Spot of Bother

I just finished Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother, and it ranks right up there with [Franzen's I]The Corrections [/I]with me.

I laughed out loud in several places, and I'll be reading this one again.
 
The works of Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris have made me laugh out loud. More than once, even ;).

Terry Pratchett's books are funny, and I chuckle a bit, but I don't think I've laughed out loud at anything he's written.
 
Book that made me laugh

The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, by J.P. Donleavy. It's hard to pick one because I'm in it for the laughs.
 
The hitchhikers guide was probably the best but A few others make my list, most were pretty unexpected

Stephen King & Peter Straub | Black House
The part with Henry saying. Only two people smell like reefer in the morning on tries to cover it up with scope the other (thats you) just lets it rip. (not an perfect quote but if you read it you know what I am taking about)

It was either The Three Musketeers or Man in the Iron Mask
the part where Athos has barricaded himself in the cellar of some Inn and is totally smashed I remember falling out laughing at work While I was reading that on Gutenberg.org

Also I read Whale Season by N.M Kelby
this was a surprisingly good book with lots of chuckles in it not bad for a random grab at the library most of those turn up disappointment
 
Jasper Fforde is funny and original!

Did I miss it or nobody mentioned here the hillarious Gerald Durrell? I read almost all of his books on his work in wildest corners of the world, and it was always soooooo funny! And of cause I read twenty or so times his book My Family and Other Animals . I can't stop laughing!

I laughed also when I read A woman in Berlin. She somehow kept her writing extremely cynical and thus I was laughing in unexpected places.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! the autobiography of Richard Feynman, the Nobel-Prise winner in Physics, made me grin thoughout the reading. I have much in common with him in many situations - especially i share his dislike of psycologists...
The book is very amusing, though.

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer was funny and weird at times.

Mark Twain also makes me smile at times.

The cynicism of Josef Heller in Catch-22 and in God knows was very amusing.

Well, I am also looking for a funny book right now. I saw that there was "Angela ashes" suggested here, but the movie depressed me so much that I just can not overcome it. Is there anything similar to Gerald Durrell and Josef Heller (fiction but not SF) that anybody can recommend?
 
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Hi, most funny book is A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving, one of the best books your ever read. Didn't enjoy his others, though haven't read the cider house rules.
 
I usually don't look for books aimed to be funny, since they tend to border on boring and dull, but two books that had me snorting and giggling are listed below:

The Bartimaeus Trilogy (I loved the guys wit, at least in the first book: two and three had it, but veered more towards plot than humor, which is fine: the book is fucking awesome, if you haven't read it, then you better)

The Alphabet of Manliness (I loved the guys website when I was younger, gave the book a whirl, the jokes were very dry and adolescent, but that didn't take away the fact that me and my friends loved them)
 
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