/lit/ - Literature

>>6883880

>>6883889
And I would say Catch 22 but that gets somewhat dark at times so I wouldn't say it's consistently funny. The first half is hilarious, though.

>>6883866

>>6883920
no jokes, that is a pretty hilarious book. I read it last year and I laughed out loud, imagining her saying it in her raspy voice. RIP in peace sweet princess.

>>6884273
>no jokes

>>6883866

>>6883866

>>6883866
Moby Dick
Heart of a Dog
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>>6883880

>>6884047
I really like that title

>>6883866
Sedaris--Me Talk Pretty One Day and some others I forget the titles

Kingsley Amis--On Drinking

Irving--A Prayer For Owen Meany (the final two chapters excluded)

>>6883895
yes to Catch 22 but Quixote failed to capture me.

I know Thurber had that effect on me, but it was so long ago, i don't specifically remember what I was reading.

>>6883920
goodnight, sweet princess. you were one of the greats.

>>6883880
Yep
>>6884554
+1 Me Talk Pretty One Day

Attempting Normal by Maron was funny, too.

>>6884506
How the hell did Moby Dick have you laughing?

>>6884047
That scene where he wants to get wedding bracelets instead of wedding rings because he thinks it would look more prestigious had me on the floor.

>>6884651
He must be a sperm whale.

>>6884730
your mom is a sperm whale

>>6884743
laughingspermwhales.png

>>6884673
That's a great scene. I think Peredonov is the most comical character in Russian lit, even beating out Akaky Akakievich from the Overcoat. Every leap of illogic he makes is hilarious, like when Rutilov tricks into the logic of two times two equals four, therefore it follows that he has to get married.

>>6884651
Not OR, but I do remember Moby-Dick was dotted with a lot of jabs at philosophical types which were funny, I mean it had a ton of comic moments and sarcastic, caustic lines aimed at intellectuals. Those "jokes" were the ones I remember best. It's the kind of humor that leaves you smiling inwardly though, laughing out loud sounds a little... manic.

When I was 16 I remember laughing out loud at a lot of Fear and Loathing.

'—But this book is about religion, said a sub-editor, standing aside for the tall man in the black Homburg to pass. —It’s Buddhism.
—But it’s by a Jew, said the other, standing aside.
—Well, I’ve told him if he’ll change his hero from a Jew to a homosexual, we might accept it.
—But that’s the way it was in the first place.'

>>6883866
im reading don quixote now and its made me giggle a few times. im loving it so far

>>6884839
I love Gaddis' dry humor
>—Is that what you want? That's what you want is it? she cried, and as she did gripped the hem of her dress, and it became immediately apparent that it was the only garment she had on

>>6883866

Oblomov struck too close to home for me to laugh. I'm a debt free college grad and I work full-time with a decent job my degree got me but in so many areas of my life I am a complete fucking sloth.

>>6884483
I love that whole series.

>>6884937
Oblomov hit me close too but I still laughed. Don't pity yourself.

>>6884923
This is sexual without context so it's some angry drunk woman who was just insulted on the subway

>>6884704
this.

"Dear Mr. I. Abelman, mongoloid, esq..." Basically anything Ignatius wrote was gold

>>6885006

"Go dangle your withered parts over the toilet!" Ignatius screamed savagely.

That book was absolutely hilarious. I've never loved and hated a character at the same time before.

Woody Allen- Without Feathers is absolutely hysterical. World's funniest child molester

>>6885487
i read a short story of his--cannot remember the name for the life of me--but many lulz were had.

Lolita. The only book to have done so for me.

Please give me some recommendations for more like this if you have any (aside from Nabokov's other works). The closest analogue I've come across might be Kubrick's screen adaptations, funnily enough...

>>6883866
Not consistently funny as a whole, but I have to say Stepan Arkadyitch's sections in Anna Karenina were hilarious.

I love the section while waiting on the Jewish Bolarinov as a petitioner, he spends his time "devising a pun he inteded to tell about how he had much ajew with a Jew"
Then, while feeling troubled, he can't figure out if it's because"nothing came of the pun, 'I had much a-jew with a Jew' or for some other reason"

Something about that scene always has me laughing out loud.

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

sure it is your typical harem novel,but it still made me laugh out loud

>>6884047
Seconding this.

>>6885820
Seconding this.

Also adding Pale Fire.

Not even halfway through it but god I laughed

>>6886269
forgot pic

>>6886414
but why???

>>6886514
Did you read it?

>>6886522
Yeah. I just thought it was a depressing read. Man goes from war to Africa to France and consistently fails in his endeavours. I didn't see the absurdity, and he never slipped on a banana peel in Africa. I don't know what level of humour I was meant to find here.
Maybe my memory's just wonky... Could you name an event that made you laugh?

>>6886531
Well the "tirade" of Princhard is really funny and the manner how Céline insist on the selfishness of Ferdinand is ridiculously amusing. Plus the overall style is both touchy and funny I think
In which language did you read it ?

I think (although I haven't finished it yet) that focusing only on the depressing part of the book is a sort of mistake
Céline makes me think of Kafka somehow, there's a bit humor here and there, very dark, but still laughable

>>6886577
I suppose... Eh. Not really. I believe you, but it still doesn't ring clear with me. I guess I'll just have to let it slide.
Journey is the only one I read in Danish, actually. Normally I just buy the English versions of international works because they're dirt cheap compared to the Danish translations.

So he's Kafka-funny... I do sort of get that. Kafka is a comedic genius. I might have to re-read Journey to the End of the Night to see the relation!

Funniest book I've read. It's a shame Toole died before seeing any real success.

>>6883920
RIP funniest woman to ever live.

>>6883866

>>6886531
Are you serious? The book is a comedy. How on earth did you finish it without realizing this

>>6883866
catch 22

Was in tears from laughter during the meeting with his friends, and the officer who bumped into him on the street

Was in tears from start to finish

I'm always caught between laughter and amazement how people actually kill tress of this shit when I read this one

>>6886462
For some reason this made me laugh too

>>6887304
it was good until he talks about the jews.