can you recommend a funny book?

Question

I like to read and Im reading Martina Cole the runaway. very good but not a funny book. I'd like to read something that makes me laugh? What book would you say was funny and why? thanks.

Answer 1

hitchiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams that book is sooooooo funny and it has a lot of other books after it

Answer 2

If you like books at all, you might appreciate Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. They're these satire/mysteries set in an alternate universe where literary characters interact with the outside world and time travel causes all kinds of headaches.

The first one is called "The Eyre Affair" and it's about someone kidnapping Jane Eyre from the pages of her novel while the world anxiously waits for the ending of their favorite book to be restored.

There's some funny stuff in there - and the more you paid attention in English class, the funnier they get.

Answer 3

I loved Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed as 42, they were forced to build a more powerful computer to work out what the Ultimate Question actually was, but their plans never come to fruition. (Later on, referencing this, Adams would create a puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.)
The computer, often mistaken for a planet (because of its size and use of biological components), was the Earth, and was destroyed by Vogons five minutes before the conclusion of its 10-million-year program. Two of the race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings, who turn out to be Trillian's mice, want to dissect Arthur's brain to help reconstruct the question, since he is the last remaining survivor from Earth at the moment when it was destroyed. Trillian is also human but had left Earth six months previously with Zaphod Beeblebrox. Our protagonists escape, setting course for "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". The mice, in Arthur's absence, create a phony question since it is too troublesome for them to wait 10 million years again just to cash in on a lucrative deal. Their new question was "How many roads must a man walk down?"

Answer 4

A Dog's Life by Mayle
Marley and Me by Grogan
Consider Lily by Dayton
A Long Way From Chicago by Peck
The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax
Emily Ever After by Dayton

Answer 5

Couples by Paul Reiser is funny and cute but I wouldn't call it hilarious. Easy to read.
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel is charming and has some delightful moments, full of insight but not a downer at all. Easy to read. After I read Zippy I had to gobble up all of Kimmel's stuff...most of it not so light.
Being There, by Jerzy Kosinski, is a delightful novel, also thought provoking, about the life of a man who is raised by television, and what happens to him in his life is really funny, but also a statement by the author. I have read probably all of Kosinski's stuff, but this was the lightest, easiest yet thought provoking book.

Answer 6

As others have said, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is hysterical. Also, read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Anything by Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman, actually.

Answer 7

Rally Round the Flag, Boys, by Max Shulman

Answer 8

Bras and Broomsticks is soooooooooo.... funny. Then there is the second book called Frogs and Frenchkisses. I forgot the author but I'm sure if you look it up on the local library's website they will know what you are talking about.

Answer 9

beloved dearly. i cant remember the author, but it was about a 12 year old tycoon. he once sold mcdonald hamburgers in the school cafeteria. but then he came up with the idea for a pet cemetary. he even hired a cryer. her name was Swimming Pool and her job was to cry at the funerals. actually, i think he might have been 13.

Answer 10

What's So Funny?
Cherie Kerr