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i had a similar experience with this. more dread than fun

it's perfect

Major Major Major Major

timeless

About to start this. What can I expect?

Give me some insightful thoughts about this book that I can parrot as my own.

*puts postmodern prose to shame by proving that truly clever writing has no need of excessive verbosity or obfuscation*

>everyone goes on about how funny this book is
>nobody mentions how sad this book is
>nobody mentions how enraging this book is
>nobody mentions how uplifting this book is
Does Dunces evoke the same breadth of emotion or is it absurd comedy throughout?

Opinions on this book? Is it worth reading or is it complete trash?

What do you guys think about this book? Is it any good?

Isn't there good literature about communist russia paranoia? Something with fear to NKVD and characters in prison camps and fun politics talk and artists that are forced to change their pieces for the party etc etc? Something like Gulag Archipelago but well written and with a fun mood, like pic related or GR.

Insightful take on the inconsistencies of modern society or just some scrambled pseudointellectual Tarantino bullshit? Talk about it

>>11347960
THERE WAS A TURTLE BY THE NAME OF BURT

AND BURT THE TURTLE WAS VERY ALERT

Comedy is the hardest form of writing to do. Especially in the digital age when the pool of original ideas is shrinking smaller and smaller. Why are there never any comedy literature or comedy writing threads on /lit/?

itt: shit cover arts

>>10748852
The humor wasn't doing anything for me.

This book

Holy shit finally finished this book. Amazing how it applies to any period of time. Any other warkino aside from Slaughterhouse 5?

>>10139870

Catch-22 may be my favourite book. It is definitely the funniest book I have read. I recently learned there is a sequel, Closing Time. Is it a good read? For that matter, what lesser known Heller books are worth a read?

>Yossarian jumped. Nately's whore was hiding just outside the door. The knife came down, missing him by Catch-22 inches, and he sped off.
What WAS Heller thinking?

Books that have made you laugh out loud like a retard in public.

>Here was God’s plenty, all right, he thought bitterly as he stared — liver, lungs, kidneys, ribs, stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch.

I've been reading this on trains and it's been a while since a book made me laugh. I know that the book is classified as a satire and it's funny as hell, but I can't help but think of it as realism. If you read about the russian grand fleet during the russo-japanese war you get a similar bizarre description of events, and honestly weird stories like this are the things people remember when they come back home from the war. I'm just thinking that reality itself is so strange that portraying it accurately can come off as satire. Does anyone else get this impression from reading satire?