I reckon I could do with reading a bit more humour. I haven't read much in that genre other that Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams and a Red Dwarf or 2.
Can anybody recomend me something funny to read?
Thanks,
Posted by Silver3 (Member # 2174) on :
To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis Hilarious timetravel romp through Victorian Times.
Posted by Jeraliey (Member # 2147) on :
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Posted by rustafarianblackpolarbear (Member # 2638) on :
thats the guy i was thinking of. anything by terry pratchett is funny.
Posted by EricJamesStone (Member # 1681) on :
The Space Willies by Eric Frank Russell.
The Myth-Adventures series and the Phule's Company series by Robert Asprin.
Posted by HSO (Member # 2056) on :
Are we limited to fiction only? If not, consider Bill Bryson's books. They always make me laugh.
Posted by wbriggs (Member # 2267) on :
The funniest book I ever read was Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome. It's on gutenberg.org, so you won't even have to pay for it.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 1563) on :
For delightful and heartwarming, not to mention hilarious at times, try James Herriot's books on his vet practice in rural England: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful. (Although the last book, The Lord God Made Them All was a bit weak, IMO.)
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Posted by Lord Darkstorm (Member # 1610) on :
Harry Harrison wrote the Stainless Steel Rat series, they are quite funny as well.
Posted by autumnmuse (Member # 2136) on :
I love any book by Dave Barry or Erma Bombeck if you want humor about real life. And Dave Barry has also written a couple of fiction novels that are Miami crime-thrillers which are absolutely hilarious as well, I really enjoyed Big Trouble. It was also made into a movie starring Tim Allen, but unfortunately came out just after 9/11 and some of the subject matter was a little too raw for the time, so the movie didn't do well in theaters.
If you want fiction check out The Thin Woman series by Dorothy Cannell (starting with a book called, funnily enough, The Thin Woman). Ostensibly they are murder mysteries, but in no way are the murders the most important or interesting part of the book. The characters are what make me laugh out loud each and every time I read them.
Posted by Elan (Member # 2442) on :
Tad Williams, "The War of the Flowers." fantasy genre.
And for general guffaws, "America: A citizen's guide to democracy inaction" by Jon Stewart & the crew of the Daily Show (seen on Comedy Central)
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Posted by Troy (Member # 2640) on :
Funniest. Book. Ever:
A Confederacy of Dunces.
Posted by Gwalchmai (Member # 1807) on :
Much of what Tom Holt has written, in particular his historical fiction.
Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on :
What do you want to read? The answer is much different if you want dirty limericks than it is if you want slapstick.
Posted by Ray (Member # 2415) on :
Thoughts From the Commode by Michael Domis. It's a mini-book, so it's rather short, but downright hilarious.
Posted by Minister (Member # 2213) on :
Outdoor humor: Patrick McManus -- absolutely hilarious; I laugh until I cry every time I read one of his books.
Scifi: It's been quite a while since I read them, but there were some books about the Hoka, a species of intelligent teddy bears, that were extremely funny. Sadly, I don't remember the authors (it was a collaboration by a pair of pretty well known writers), but I'll bet someone here does.
Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on :
I'm not entirely sure, but I think the Hoka were from the pen of Alan Dean Foster.
Posted by rickfisher (Member # 1214) on :
If you just want funny, and aren't concerned with genre or even whether it's fiction, try Anguished English by Richard Lederer. Find someone you know and read it aloud to them. If you can get through the first section without having the other person snatch the book from you, because you're laughing too hard to continue reading, you're a better man than I am.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
The Hoka were creations of Gordon R Dickson and Poul Anderson.
Posted by Jeraliey (Member # 2147) on :
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
This one had me rolling, and is good for grammar brush-ups.
Posted by Kalvin (Member # 2630) on :
Why has no one posted about The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Series!?
Posted by goatboy (Member # 2062) on :
Try any of the MYTH books by Robert Lynn Asprin.
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
No one has mentioned HGTTG, because Benskia said except Douglas Adams among others.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
I've laughed out loud a time or two in Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan books.