Books that make you laugh?

I love books that make me laugh, since I am a hilarious person in general. These are my personal favorite comic masterpieces:

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Fierce invalids home from hot climates by Tom Robbins
Another roadside attraction by Tom Robbins
Penguin Island by Anatole France
Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe
Wilt by Tom Sharpe
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
Bigger than Hitler Better than Christ by Rik Mayall
Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
A Dirty Job by christopher moore

These are only books I have read recently. I reread A Dirty Job last week actually, thinking of rereading Fluke after I finish The Dubliners

Kurt Vonnegut (may he rest in peace) is one of the funniest authors I have ever read, and he is definitely my favorite American writer.

Laurie Notaro - any book. I especially love her The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club and There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day. I can totally relate to his hell of trying to learn French as an adult. I can speak dirty French flawlessly. Ask me to introduce myself and I'm a blank. It's like I have French tourettes. Holidays on Ice is also a good read, especially between Thanksgiving and New Years. A family that denies together can celebrate together.

I also enjoy Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels and his nursery crimes.
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these authors you should check out are:
Scott Carpenter
Robert Tacoma
Nicole del Sesto

and L.P. Bowman
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anything by AG and the sedaris family will crack me up (amy's party book is my inspiration for hosting parties now). and several of the discworld books have made me laugh out loud.
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Gravity's Rainbow made you laugh????
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Anything by Douglas Adams.

Nevermore...
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Notdeadyet wrote:

Gravity's Rainbow made you laugh????

Not the book so much, more the idea of the story made me laugh in a good way.

"Crooked Little Vein " by Warren Ellis
in fact anything by warren ellis. he's like ag on methamphetamine.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is a classic, as well.
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dude girlegirl i JUST finished that book! it was funny! that rat in his office was great!
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"protestant heaven is in the basement of catholic heaven."
my dad

"there's just one more thing.... it's been emotional." lock stock and 2 smoking barrels

walk wrote:

dude girlegirl i JUST finished that book! it was funny! that rat in his office was great!

DUDE!

"Transmetropolitan" {even if your not into comic books and watnot, this series by warren ellis is; if you will pardon the overused outdated venacular "DA BOMB" !}
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girlEgirl wrote:

"Crooked Little Vein " by Warren Ellis in fact anything by warren ellis. he's like ag on methamphetamine.

Found it at the library yesterday-
I like the cover & so did the librarian...

girlEgirl wrote:

walk wrote: dude girlegirl i JUST finished that book! it was funny! that rat in his office was great! DUDE! "Transmetropolitan" {even if your not into comic books and watnot, this series by warren ellis is; if you will pardon the overused outdated venacular "DA BOMB" !}

i'm currently working on the fell vol 1, going quickly.
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"protestant heaven is in the basement of catholic heaven."
my dad

"there's just one more thing.... it's been emotional." lock stock and 2 smoking barrels

One of the things I "inherited" from my Dad when he emigrated to a tiny island in the Med was a huge book of the original radio transcripts of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Why is it so funny (apart from being by Douglas Adams, of course)?

Well, every couple of pages or so he talks about where he got the ideas from and tells little stories of funny and bizarre things that happened to him. Bloody hilarious.

Other authors that make me laugh with their books:

Carl Hiaason (especially Skin Tight),
Terry Pratchett (especially the Night Watch books),
Janet Evanovich.
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walk wrote:

girlEgirl wrote: walk wrote: dude girlegirl i JUST finished that book! it was funny! that rat in his office was great! DUDE! "Transmetropolitan" {even if your not into comic books and watnot, this series by warren ellis is; if you will pardon the overused outdated venacular "DA BOMB" !} i'm currently working on the fell vol 1, going quickly.

"Fell" is good but "Transmetropolitan" is freak heaven. make sure to read them in order.
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clowns are people too...people who want to hurt you.