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Post by soggy on Sept 29, 2017 21:36:07 GMT
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams immediately comes to mind, as it's one of the funniest things created by a human.
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett is another great one. It's book 5(?) in his Discworld series, but it is a great place to start in the series, and is a great improvement over the first few books.
Fool by Christopher Moore is an absolute blast, but it requires knowledge of Shakespeare's plays to appreciate the jokes.
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer series by Jonathan L. Howard. This is an underrated gem of a series about an academic necromancer with little in terms of a sense of humor for himself, and he's literally soulless after selling his soul for the powers of being a necromancer... only for the devil to laugh and explain that one needs a soul to raise the dead. As the book describes the plot: "Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn." The figure of Cabal dressed like a well-to-do undertaker, and his cheerless personality running a carnival is true comedy gold.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Oct 2, 2017 15:31:36 GMT
Terry Pratchett
Lots of Tom Wolfe makes me laugh.
R.A. Lafferty, the madman!
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