Books that made you laugh out loud.
 

Not many books actualy make me laugh out loud and embarass myself in public kinda thing. they might be humorous with witty stuff etc, but no snorting my drinks out.

One I did with though is The Van by Roddy Doyle.

Any other nominations I can go spend my Borders gift card on..?

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--Hunter Thompson

Anything/Everything by P J O\'Rourke...
 

...but it's all in your local library.

Also Dave Barry, Patrick McManus. YMMV.

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The Bible

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invisible man by ellison

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All of HTS books, particularily Fear and Loathing
and of course Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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The Bible

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hahaha. I agree

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the movie made my stomach hurt. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Johnny Depp is the king!

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Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson

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"The Van" is one of my favorite books as well.

You may already know that it is part of a trilogy, including, "The Snapper" and "The Commitments."
"The Van" was the best of the three.

All three were movies as well. If you haven't seen "The Commitments", check it out, hilarious, my favorite movie ever.

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A Confederacy of Dunces

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Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy O'Toole) is a good suggestion. Anything by Nick Hornby as well, with the exception of Fever Pitch.

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The Great Shark Hunt is easily the funniest thing ever written. (The piece, although some of the Nixon articles in the book are really funny as well.)

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Cervantes describes Quixote’s growing obsession with knight-errantry, saying, “he so immersed himself in those romances that he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason” (Book 1, Part 1).

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Home Land by Sam Lipsyte has some great lines.

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I highly recommend A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, by David Foster Wallace. The title essay alone is worth the price of the book. Hysterical, and the guy's a great writer to boot.

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Theory Of Poker.

That David S. is one crazy cracker.

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Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle and Hocus Pocus specifically.

EDIT: also Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. For a small sample check out his short story "Guts" (linked below) - not for the squeemish (but definitely funny... sort of).

He also wrote Fight Club.

GUTS

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Off the top of my head...

Eat the Rich and Parliament of Whores by PJ O'Rourke.

Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley

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Anything by David Sedaris

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American Psycho - Easton Ellis
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Thank you for Smoking

I have a bunch more, but i can't remeber them right now

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No. You have to listen to David Sedaris. You are missing out if you read him.

The same is true of Bill Bryson (combining an English accent with a Midwestern US one). I'm not nominating him for laugh out loud writer, but he is pretty clever.

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Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley

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This is also a good book, same author as "thank you for smoking"

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TPFAP where sklansky goes apeshit

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Can't believe I'm the first one to this....

Play Poker Like the Pro's by Phil Hellmuth

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Choke was funnier (though Survivor was better)

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Agreed. I want to get his new book that just came out, but from what I have read I may not like it. It sounds like it is more a gross out book than a good read.

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The Boomer Bible by R.F.Laird
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
anything George Carlin

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John Stewart's "America: The Book" is goddamn hilarious.

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so is Naked Pictures of Famous People.

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My old Eng Comp prof used to say that Comedy was the toughest genre. That seems true, as not very many people laugh out loud too often while reading. That being said, I remember being on a packed bus in rush hour through downtown, reading one of the wack off scenes in Portnoy's Complaint. I started spontaneously laughing so hard that the old lady next to me switched seats. I didn't care though. Hadn't had a good laugh in a while.

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All of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. These are in a league of their own in the lol department, even if you're not normally a fan of fantasy fiction. The other books in this thread are good but these will have you laughing until you're sore and the best thing is he just keeps writing them each just as funny as the last. And no, you don't have to read them all or in any order, dip in and out as you see fit. In fact I would skip the first few ones until you get a taste for them.

Don't let the Fantasy label put you off. They're as much of a parody of various other things as they are actual fantasy fiction - Phantom of the Opera, organised religion (not in a sacriligious way before all the happy clappies jump on me), Australia, Death, detective fiction, vampires, silent movies, politics, journalism, the opst office, and the list goes on.

I like them anyway.

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here's a reminder of a hilarious quickie to read between games - http://www.wbrucecameron.com/columns/chilijudge.htm

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All of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. These are in a league of their own in the lol department, even if you're not normally a fan of fantasy fiction. The other books in this thread are good but these will have you laughing until you're sore and the best thing is he just keeps writing them each just as funny as the last. And no, you don't have to read them all or in any order, dip in and out as you see fit. In fact I would skip the first few ones until you get a taste for them.

Don't let the Fantasy label put you off. They're as much of a parody of various other things as they are actual fantasy fiction - Phantom of the Opera, organised religion (not in a sacriligious way before all the happy clappies jump on me), Australia, Death, detective fiction, vampires, silent movies, politics, journalism, the opst office, and the list goes on.

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HELL YEAH. Pratchett is hands down the best for laugh out loud. It's amazing how few Americans have read him.

Krishan

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--Hunter Thompson

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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

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I found this had some strange similarities to one of the other suggestions: "Confederacy of Dunces" (John Kennedy O'Toole). If you liked the comedic style of one, you will probably appreciate the other (although they are utterly different books.....)

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No one has mentioned Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy? Wow...

That, and the Discworld series by Pratchett.

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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

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Anything by Ben Elton,

his early stuff is good (stark, this other Eden) but I loved popcorn.

He is English so many of you may not of heard of him, he also co-wrote the young ones.

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The dice man. - Luke Rhinehart