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Post by novastar6 on Aug 22, 2017 21:20:10 GMT
Which books made you laugh the longest or hardest?
Freaky Friday, so different from the movies, and so hilarious, conducting a head count over the telephone with the police department, I love it.
Time Flies, and I Am What I Ate and it Scares Me by Bill Cosby
My Wonderful World of Slapstick by Buster Keaton
House Calls by Patch Adams (moreso for the illustrations than his actual advice)
Undercover Cat, (and its sequels) by The Gordons
Why Me?, and Bad News by Donald E. Westlake
Bad Move by Linwood Barclay
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Post by mmexis on Aug 22, 2017 21:43:35 GMT
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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Post by Captain Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 1:16:36 GMT
The Black Marble by Joseph Wambaugh.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 23, 2017 14:35:52 GMT
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the one that immediately comes to mind. I read it at a time when I used public transportation to go to work, and I remember being sometimes unable to control my laughter right in the middle of subway rides.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 23, 2017 16:13:52 GMT
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Woody Allen wrote funny essays in two books – Getting Even and Without Feathers.
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Post by koskiewicz on Aug 23, 2017 18:17:26 GMT
Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout (AKA Phillip Jose Farmer)
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Post by Bargle on Aug 23, 2017 22:36:16 GMT
Any of the short story collections by Patrick F. McManus. Favorite title is "Real Ponies Don't Go Oink".
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 0:20:58 GMT
Shocked that no one has mentioned A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. I am sure I have never read a funnier novel. Although Catch-22 is up there, too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2017 9:28:06 GMT
I can`t really think of any book that made me laugh long and hard.
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Post by mrdanwest on Aug 29, 2017 17:19:15 GMT
I would second the earlier mention of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Huck Out West by Robert Coover is another one that I've read recently that had me laughing throughout.
There are also probably 4 or 5 Kurt Vonnegut novels that I could include.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 29, 2017 21:54:41 GMT
I second the replies of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide and Woody Allen's Without Feathers.
Then, I'm going to recommend a completely forgotten author from 50+ years ago: Max Schulman. If Schulman is thought of at all, it is because he was the original creator of Dobie Gillis in his novel The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1951) which became a classic TV series of the same name which ran from 1969 to 1963. He also wrote the novel Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1956) which became a 1958 film with Paul Newman. There are also these hilarious tales:
Barefoot Boy With Cheek (1943)
The Feather Merchants (1944)
Sleep Till Noon (1950)
Potatoes Are Cheaper (1971)
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Post by Ass_E9 on Aug 30, 2017 2:58:17 GMT
All My Friends Are Still Dead - Jory John & Avery Monsen
Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh
The Internet Is a Playground - David Thorne
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 30, 2017 3:08:06 GMT
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome is one that comes immediately to mind and anything by Irma Bombeck and Dave Barry. novastar6 agree about the Keaton book. Very funny !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 30, 2017 3:09:42 GMT
I can`t really think of any book that made me laugh long and hard. That may be because you keep reading those long and ultra - serious Russian novels.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 8:27:28 GMT
I can`t really think of any book that made me laugh long and hard. That may be because you keep reading those long and ultra - serious Russian novels. I don`t only read that. I also read literature from many other countries. But i will admitt that most of it is litterature from between 1700 and 1900. Of course i guess i could check out books people here have said have made them laugh long and hard. To see if i also will laugh long and hard when reading them. |
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Post by lunda2222 on Sept 7, 2017 15:52:32 GMT
Probably Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Sept 19, 2017 7:07:22 GMT
The Sot-Weed Factor, by John Barth
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Post by Marv on Sept 20, 2017 1:57:20 GMT
Catch 22 by joseph heller
Its hilarious!!! and sad....then hilarious again!!!
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 22, 2017 3:17:49 GMT
Wodehouse. Anything by Wodehouse.
I'm also fond of any of the collections the great Garrison Keillor wrote.
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Post by Nalkarj on Sept 29, 2017 16:00:48 GMT
Two more that I cannot believe I've forgotten:
Anything by Benchley or by Perelman.
As for the former:
As for the latter:
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