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Anonymous Sun Sep 28 17:13:20 2014 No.5499255 [Reply] [Original]

What is the funniest book you have read /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 19:34:36 2014 No.5500117 >>5499255 Ulysses probably

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 19:35:41 2014 No.5500122 The God Delusion

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 19:37:13 2014 No.5500139 >>5500117 >have read >Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 19:38:03 2014 No.5500151 >>5499255 Don Quixote

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 19:40:20 2014 No.5500174 Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, easily.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 19:42:41 2014 No.5500199 >>5499255 Catch-22. If anybody else loved the humor from the first half please rec me books of the same quality, humor wise!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 20:09:39 2014 No.5500384 >>5500199 White Noise A Confederacy of Dunces The Third Policeman

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 20:23:51 2014 No.5500504 Schindlers los

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 20:27:03 2014 No.5500530 >>5499255 Catch 22 any day

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 20:27:53 2014 No.5500537 One Hundred Years of Solitude The part with the mirror had me on the floor.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:01:33 2014 No.5500738 The Bible

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:08:43 2014 No.5500786 seconding Don Quixote

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:09:07 2014 No.5500787 >>5499255 Jpod A walk in the woods Some Pratchett Chariots of the Gods for "bad/funny"

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:11:03 2014 No.5500795 >>5500738 2 much edge 4 me

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:11:52 2014 No.5500799 hitchhikers guide lads

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:11:57 2014 No.5500800 >>5499255 Honestly? The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:12:44 2014 No.5500806 Gulliver's Travels or Gravity's Rainbow. Also my favorites.

>>	Anonymouse !7tLDpBrPEk Sun Sep 28 21:13:27 2014 No.5500808 >>5499255 Oof. Don Quixote is up there. Underworld and Catch-22 are also good answers. In terms of literal laugh-out-loud moments, however, it's gotta be Cannery Row

>>	FiRez !!tndrCZJHE+I Sun Sep 28 21:13:47 2014 No.5500813 El Quijote tied with Candide

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:18:17 2014 No.5500842 >>5500808 I only read the chapter about the gopher, but it was one of the funniest sections of a book I've ever read. Fuck, gotta read more Steinbeck.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:24:30 2014 No.5500893 Cat's Cradle

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:41:56 2014 No.5500980 Definitely Pratchett. Men at Arms RIP Cuddy

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:45:20 2014 No.5500994 >>5500893 Agreed

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:54:45 2014 No.5501045 File: 31 KB, 409x409, 1385374541084.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5500893 >>5500994 teenagers detected

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:55:31 2014 No.5501047 >>5500537 same actually, I LOL'd unexpectedly many times reading it

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:56:43 2014 No.5501053 Taipei

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 21:57:03 2014 No.5501054 Anyone finds Fyodor Karamazov hilarious or is it just me?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 22:02:40 2014 No.5501084 >>5501054 There's a scene in Crime and Punishment that is pretty hilarious but it's been years since I've read it. Portnoy's Complaint has so many luls. Catch 22's chapter about Major Major had me busting a gut on the bus

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 22:03:28 2014 No.5501090 >>5500139 >you >not a pleb

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 23:20:22 2014 No.5501390 EYES OF THE OVERWORLD by Jack Vance

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 28 23:25:50 2014 No.5501409 >>5499255 I read Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman because anon told me it was funny. That lying motherfucker.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 04:01:58 2014 No.5502332 >>5501054 i wouldn't call it not funny but the law of excluded middle doesnt really apply here it has funny parts but i wouldnt post it in the thread i guess

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 04:27:10 2014 No.5502397 >>5499255 all of kharms

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 06:49:50 2014 No.5502916 >>5502397 mah nigga

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 07:37:34 2014 No.5503088 File: 23 KB, 313x500, 529646[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gravity's Rainbow and V. were really funny in places, but there are long stretches in between. Pic related is incredibly funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 08:53:28 2014 No.5503357 >>5503088 Reading The Time Machine Did It and I confirm

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 09:29:57 2014 No.5503506 Comici spaventati guerrieri by Benni

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 29 09:33:15 2014 No.5503517 If short stories count, then it's probably some of Gogol's stories like the nose or the overcoat. A hundred years of solitude was also quite funny sometimes.