2007-03-23 09:15:15 · 27 answers · asked by shy_voo 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Tom Sharpe's The Throwback. His other books are good too, but this one made me laugh out loud.)0(
2007-03-26 04:36:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You Can Get Arrested for That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree by Rich Smith
Basically these two English guys go on a road trip across America breaking all those stupid laws that are still on the books like no fishing while in your pajamas and stuff. SO funny!
2007-03-27 08:31:16 · answer #2 · answered by Sa-Ba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Big Trouble', by Dave Barry. It takes a very good book to make me laugh out loud, and I looked like a lunatic whilst reading this book on the train, I was in stitches. And bits of it kept coming back to me at work, and I kept laughing for days after. A very funny book.
Amazon describes it as 'A humorous crime caper, which brings together a schoolboy prank, a corrupt businessman, the Mob, a couple of Russian arms dealers, the Miami police and a very strange toad, in one very strange day that will change the lives of all of them forever.'
Hysterical.
2007-03-25 09:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by iwatchedthestarsfallsilently 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first book which I remember making me literally cry with laughter so I could not see the page to continue reading was "Next of Kin" by Eric Frank Russell. I read it (yet again) a couple of years ago to my teenage son and had amazing difficulty in reading those same passages out loud to him, even though I knew what was coming, so it has definitely stood the test of time.
2007-03-23 10:14:29 · answer #4 · answered by LadyOok 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The funniest book I've read in a long time is "Pest Control" by Bill Fitzhugh. It's about a bug exterminator who gets mistaken for an assassin.
2007-03-23 10:46:09 · answer #5 · answered by David7118 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Bill Bryson stuff, especially notes from a small island. Also, Starter for Ten. Read this book a few years ago before the film came out, and it was genuinely laugh out loud funny.
2007-03-23 09:24:00 · answer #6 · answered by myfavouritelucy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Grumpy Old Mens Christmas' by Stuart Preeble - all very funny and strangely true about what people get up to in the run up to the festivities!
And I've heard 'The Lamb' by Chritsopher Moore is supposed to be good. It's the story of Jesus Christ's missing years from age 10 - 30, as told by his best friend Biff. A bit in the style of a Mel Brooks movie - so if your easily offended by somone taking the mickey out of the bible, prob best to miss this one.
2007-03-24 06:04:33 · answer #7 · answered by beausbreeches 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just about anything by Terry Pratchet- Feet of Clay and Interesting Times had me in stitches.
The Road to Omaha and The Road the Gandolfo by Robert Ludlum about some bungling attempts to kidnap the Pope, both made me laugh till I cried.
2007-03-23 09:31:55 · answer #8 · answered by lokai1701 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flashman - By George Macdonald Frasier
Or - Mort, By Terry Pratchett
2007-03-23 09:25:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Without Feathers" by Woody Allen. Not the Woody Allen you'll be familier with through his films, but a younger, absurdist Woody Allen.
How funny? I was reading it while travelling on the last tube train of the night and - literally - fell off my chair laughing and didn't give a hoot that people were staring at me..
That funny.
Happy reading.
2007-03-24 04:12:55 · answer #10 · answered by monklane79 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists" by Gideon Defoe is one of the funniest books I've read recently.
2007-03-23 11:13:49 · answer #11 · answered by Athene1710 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋