Funniest Book

[MarkS]

What books have made you actually laff out loud? Not just go 'hmmmrpph thats clever' but laugh to the point that you have to try and stop yourself so you dont look mental on the train.

For me the funniest book ive ever read is Tony Hawks' Around Ireland with a Fridge. Almost read it in one sitting and my ribs hurt when i was done.

Aside from that i think only Terry Pratchett has made me genuinely LOL, so what else should i be trying for a giggle?

 

[Cullhaven]

Pratchett, always makes me lol. I've laughed out loud reading Gaiman too. Jack Vance, especially Cugels Saga, Cugel is such a turd, always putting himself and his needs first, always coming a cropper.

Spike Milligan, Puckoon and his War memoirs. Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willanns Molesworth and St Trinians stuff. (Mat Groening puts Searls cartoons as one of his influences). P.G Wodehouse is funny sometimes - Bertie Wooster stuff. Douglas Adams is LOL stuff.

Tom Holt can be funny, best is Who's afraid of Beowulf, vanload of resurected vikings running round England in a similar fasion to the knight in le Visiteurs(SP), thinking that the london underground map is some mighty heroes family tree

I loled at some of Jonathan Stranges exploits with The Iron Duke in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke.

Cant think of any more atm.

 

[Guy]

Real, actual lol moments have been few and far between. I'd say prolly Pratchett, but not read anything from him for 10 years or so. Couple of things in books I've read recently have made me snicker - A Year in the Merde, for example - but no real lol stuff.

 

[Janie]

I don't find the written word a very good way of expressing humour, so never really laugh out loud when reading in the same way as I would watching the TV. But on saying that 'Wilt' by Tom Sharpe gets me smiling, the 3 sequels are mostly awful though

For non fiction 'If Chins Could Kill' Bruce Campbells autobiography was funny

 

[Agravaine]

Pratchett generally makes me laugh and some of Robert Rankin's stuff is funny.

 

[Cullhaven]

Robert Rankine! The Brentford Triangle stuff with Pooley and O'Malley is very funny. And in his world, Mornington Crescent is the home of the ministry of Serendipity

 

[Chick]

1984.

By Miles.

 

[Sharra]

Bill Bryson has made embarress myself in public a few times, i love his dry humour.

And Chick, 1984?? That confused me!

 

[Ky]

Bill Brysons - Letters from a Big Country is hilarious.

 

[McHoff H. McChrist]

I don't think that was the kind of laughing he meant, Chick.

 

[Pictelf]

Pratchett and a more recent discovery Christopher Brookmyre. He is a scottish writer who does really black humour. Tongue in cheek plots that you are kinda waiting to see exactly how spectacular a death the next character is going to have.

Though my most recent laugh out loud reading, was strangely enough Dawkins' God Delusion.

 

[Medivac]

Make love the Bruce Campbell way (audio book) he reads it too

Grunts!, Mary Gentle excellent book (Dark truimphs over light

Pratchet well most of them.....

 

[Dareos]

Tom Shields goes Forth, its nto a novel, its a lot of cuttings from The Heralds diary column, filled with some anecdotes and apocraphyl tales. its funneh.


The Bigot is also damn funny, cant recall the author right at this moment, but it was the same guy that did Parras over the Barras