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Anonymous Thu May 27 09:56:07 2021 No.18329588 [Reply] [Original]

What are the funniest books you have ever read?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 09:58:01 2021 No.18329598 >>18329588 Moliere's Don Juan and Dostoïevski's player both made me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 10:16:29 2021 No.18329710 >>18329588 Wolf of Wall Street

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 10:32:57 2021 No.18329811 >>18329588 Ratner's Star The Sot-weed Factor Molloy At Swim-Two-Birds Notable American Women

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:07:02 2021 No.18330465 Hitchhiker's Guide series. Some of the lighter books by CS Lewis and GK Chesterton. Something about the dryness of British humour seems to work very well in writing. Are there comparable American books/authors?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:20:07 2021 No.18330543 Great Expectations, it's my first Dickens but it's hilarious. I remember The rules of attraction and American psycho, both being hilarious as well.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:36:07 2021 No.18330652 >>18329588 Is this a good book?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:43:31 2021 No.18330691 >>18330652 it's the best book

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:44:27 2021 No.18330695 >>18330652 I read about 40 pages of it back in February and found it aggravatingly self-referential and mind-numbingly boring. Of course the right thing to do is to read it yourself and come to your own conclusions.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:45:28 2021 No.18330701 >>18329588 DQ

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:52:12 2021 No.18330739 Gravity's rainbow Hitchhikers guide Riders of the purple wage

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 12:53:21 2021 No.18330745 >>18329811 >At Swim-Two-Birds Fantastic. You're the only anon I've ever seen mention Beckett and O'Brien in the same post. I'm curious: how would you compare them?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 13:07:27 2021 No.18330834 >>18330695 >self-referential Can you elaborate on this?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 13:09:29 2021 No.18330851 File: 288 KB, 800x420, The-Good-Soldier-Švejk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18329588

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 13:12:17 2021 No.18330871 >>18329811 I thought The Third Policeman was funnier than At Swim Two Birds

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 13:51:33 2021 No.18331082 >>18330851 This A Confederacy of dunces The sellout Based on a true story Catch 22 The Trial Bartleby the scrivener

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 14:17:40 2021 No.18331257 >>18329588 The Decameron

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 14:23:58 2021 No.18331293 The Importance of Being Earnest

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 14:35:13 2021 No.18331382 File: 157 KB, 750x1029, 1100DB26-679A-45B8-A17F-777DC59D99FC.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Call of the Crocodile. “The Room” of literature.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 14:39:52 2021 No.18331415 >>18329588 Ulysses and >>18331257

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 15:23:33 2021 No.18331654 >>18329588 This book had far too much details on noses, and not enough on button holes.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 15:31:20 2021 No.18331699 File: 29 KB, 313x500, 8mned7hkvp621.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18329588 This book's pretty funny, albeit a tad crass.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 27 15:59:40 2021 No.18331860 >>18329811 Seconding The Sot-Weed Factor and At Swim-Two-Birds, will also add Three Trapped Tigers and Amerika.