2006-08-01 09:01:03 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Mine was a Tom Sharpe book - Blott on the Landscape! I remember the first time I read it as a teenager - I was on a bus and burst into fits of laughter. I looked very odd!
2006-08-01 09:14:26 · update #1
Roger Mellies Profanisaurus Rex. It might broaden your Vocabulary Geekie!
2006-08-02 01:11:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Right now, I am reading a hilarious novel by Caroline Cooney called HIT THE ROAD. I just started it less than an hour ago, but I've never laughed so hard....it is just the first three chapters...but I can tell this book is going to be one of the funniest I've ever read. It's about a sixteen year old girl, who has had her license less than a month, who ends up on a wild car trip with her grandmother and her grandmother's college friends on their way to their 65th reunion.
I also like The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck. And I do love the Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison...which begins with Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging.
2006-08-01 09:15:35 · answer #2 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh gosh, there have been tons of books that I've read that just made me burst into giggles. The Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series are one group that I cannot read without screeching with laughter (it's either laugh or burst, and I'd rather laugh). "Wicked: The Untold Story of The Wicked Witch of The West" is another book that has those kind of moments. Another author that seems made to make people have awkward laughter moments is Jennifer Cruisie. I don't think I've ever read one of her books without doubling over in laughter.
2006-08-01 10:47:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jessica H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There have been a lot of books I have had a good giggle or bellow of laughter at. Two of my favourite this year were Having a Lovely Time by Jenny Eclair and A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. Both have odd plots as they deal with extreme themes: adultery and suicide. Yet you end up laughing. The characters are terrific and you can really sympathise with them. I am not a Hornby fan but I loved his book and have passed it round all my pals.
2006-08-01 09:15:02 · answer #4 · answered by mairimac158 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Def Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the other four books in the trilogy of five!! ;) Hehe!! In fact anything by Douglas Adams! 'The Long Dark Teatime of The Soul'!! =D OH! Was that the one with the electric monk looking down on the valley he thought was pink!?? Jeeeez that was funny!! =D
Oh and another one but its OLD OLD OLD is 'Warriors Paraded' - it's a family favourite, belongs to my grandma officially and my dad just cant read it out loud cos he cant help laughing!! It's extremely British humour and may not appeal to all tastes though - oh so funny though! =D
2006-08-01 09:16:02 · answer #5 · answered by dot254 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to choose between:
Red Dwarf - Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (by Grant Naylor, 1989)
and The Hitchhiker's Quartet (the collection of the hitchhiker's four books by Douglas Adams, 1986).
I think the latter is more accomplished, although both hilariously funny and paranoid. So my vote goes to the latter.
2006-08-02 01:20:23 · answer #6 · answered by FAINOMENON 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are books that make you laugh out loud, and then there are books that make you laugh inside. the test for both of them is whether they are still just as funny when you read them the third time.
for the laugh out loud books i don't think 'the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy' can be bettered. i've read the cycle three times - so it certainly lasts.
some of the stories in dylan thomas' 'a prospect of the sea' certainly come close though. when i used to teach i once set dylan's 'memories of christmas' as a comprehension exercise in an end-of-year exam. as soon as my students read the piece (in the exam hall) they started to giggle, and then roar with laughter. it was the silliest exam i ever set (and unmarkable - they were all laughing too hard to answer the questions).
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for the other sort - the quiet smile books - i think jaroslav hasek's 'the good soldier svejk' (which is mainly about smuggling forged dogs) is unforgettable - though i also love bohumil hrabal's 'i served the king of england' and laurence sterne's 'tristram shandy'.
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i don't usually read the harry potter books for their humour, but i think dolores umbridge is one of english literature's great comic parodies.
2006-08-01 21:57:06 · answer #7 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three Singles To Adventure By Gerald Durrel;
There is a passage in there about a man riding a horse and how from behind it looked like they were performing "....an intricate Rhumba of the more Latin variety." I don't know why but imagining that always cracks me up so much when I read this book. (My family thinks I need my head examined)
2006-08-02 08:40:43 · answer #8 · answered by DreamFlyer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three Men in a Boat by J K Jerome makes me chortle and so did Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe. Also loved The Wimbledon Poisoner
2006-08-02 00:27:20 · answer #9 · answered by Charlottestar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - how can you resist a farm where the cows are called Feckless, Pointless, Graceless and Aimless.
The Discworld books of Terry Pratchett - especially anything involving the NightWatch.
The Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde - crazy name, crazy guy.
2006-08-01 09:42:23 · answer #10 · answered by UKJess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't rank them but here are a few that have made me laugh out loud over and again.
The Confederacy of Dunces - Ignatius is unforgettable
Don Quixote
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain -- makes traveling and tourism seem hilarious
I am even going to be bold and put Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar here. It is dark and shocking at turns but her observations on the society around her are witty and fantastic.
2006-08-01 09:22:02 · answer #11 · answered by Lambert 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋