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.
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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.
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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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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.
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What do you want to read? The answer is much different if you want dirty limericks than it is if you want slapstick.
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Thoughts From the Commode by Michael Domis. It's a mini-book, so it's rather short, but downright hilarious.
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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.
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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.
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