Comedy books?

[Anonymous No.15256908]

What are some books that are actually funny or at least lighthearted enough that even a failure at humor doesn't make you drop the book?

[Anonymous No.15256931]

[Anonymous No.15256947]

The sequel to that, Three Men on a Wheels,
is pretty good as well.

[Anonymous No.15256963]

>>15256908

[Anonymous No.15256992]

Catch 22

[Anonymous No.15257017]

*blocks your path as the single most humorous book ever written*

[Anonymous No.15257080]

>>15256963
>>15256992

These two are the funniest I've read

[Anonymous No.15257110]

>>15256908
>three men in a boat

[Anonymous No.15257430]

Lolita and the novels of Raymond Chandler.

Lolita deals with a terrible subject, but Humbert Humbert is funny as hell.

[Anonymous No.15257786]

Don Quixote
Pickwick Papers

[Anonymous No.15257800]

>>15257430
I jacked off to the sex scene LOL

[Anonymous No.15258925]

>>15256931
this shit+Masters of Atlantis,Big Blondes by Jean Echenoz

[Anonymous No.15258934]

>>15257110
what did he mean by this

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15259014]

>>15256908
You want P.G Wodehouse, I suspect.

This title reminds me of the Willowdale Handcar

[Anonymous No.15260236]

>>15256908
just found this

[Anonymous No.15260258]

>>15259014

Don't you ever sully the great Edward Gorey ever again by indicating your personal apprecaition for his work. Leave good things alone.

[Anonymous No.15260306]

>>15256908
Not sure if this will float your boat *badum tis* but a book that's so dry and boring that I found it funny was The Compleat Angler. It's all about fishing. And that's it. No hidden meaning. Just. Fishing.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15260333]

>>15260258
I ooze good things

[Anonymous No.15260621]

>>15260306

i see your angler and raise you this

[Anonymous No.15260649]

<Picture attached> is an account of a "Grand Tour" (trip round Europe). It's great.

It has an appendix "On The Awful German Language" which is sometimes published separately because it proved so popular. It helps if you know even a bit about German because it's all true.

An extract:

The Germans have another kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at the beginning of an exciting chapter and the other half at the end of it. Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that? These things are called "separable verbs." The German grammar is blistered all over with separable verbs; and the wider the two portions of one of them are spread apart, the better the author of the crime is pleased with his performance. A favorite one is *reiste ab*, which means departed. Here is an example which I culled from a novel and reduced to English:

"The trunks being now ready, he DE- after kissing his mother and sisters, and once more pressing to his bosom his adored Gretchen, who, dressed in simple white muslin, with a single tuberose in the ample folds of her rich brown hair, had tottered feebly down the stairs, still pale from the terror and excitement of the past evening, but longing to lay her poor aching head yet once again upon the breast of him whom she loved more dearly than life itself, PARTED."

[Anonymous No.15260740]

>>15260236
Fitting as always. Wordsworth are the masters of good bad covers

[JagiThePretender No.15260762]

Funniest by a mile.

[Anonymous No.15260806]

>>15260762

That's on my "to-read" list. Norm is a clever and funny guy.

[Anonymous No.15261133]

>>15260306
In the same vein of unintentional comedy. I always laugh whenever he says "White can't mate" or "Black Queen is pinned"

[Anonymous No.15261219]

https://softcartel.com/2018/08/16/morus-by-william-guppy/

[Anonymous No.15262088]

The adventures of a atonal novelist by Alberto Laiseca.