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What is the funniest book you've ever read? Or what is a funny book you're looking forward to reading?

I am looking for a good book that is about something important, expresses the wide gamut of what it means to be a human, and most importantly will make me laugh. I have been wanting to read Ernest Hemingway (I've never read any of his stuff) and I want to laugh out loud. A setting in New York City or Paris would be ideal but please throw all suggestions at me!
Only thing: No British humor!! I think I just don't get it...

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Have you read Confederacy of Dunces, noob?

Squirrel Meets Chipmunk made me laugh put loud, but I have a quirky sense of humor. I think the bunnies are hilarious as well.

David Sedaris makes me want to pluck my eyelashes out.

Please don't.

Maybe Tender Buttons?

The change the dirt, not to change dirt means that there is no beefsteak and not to have that is no obstruction, it is so easy to exchange meaning, it is so easy to see the difference. The difference is that a plain resource is not entangled with thickness and it does not mean that thickness shows such cutting, it does mean that a meadow is useful and a cow absurd.

Synedoche or metonymy

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I don't get that author.

Yeah, Christopher Moore doesn't do it for me. But most good funny fiction that I can think of is British.
I'm not sure how Hemingway fits in with the funny.

Charly wrote: "Books that make you laugh and Hemingway? He makes me cry. In a way maybe makes me laugh but not humor.

Funniest book I think I've ever read is [book:Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's C..."

I agree Charly....I chuckled out loud a few times.

I wonder if Mary thinks Hemmingway would be intersting to read and is just tossing his name into her query hoping that he might have something that pleases the funny bone?

I wonder if Steinbeck could do the trick? How about Mark Twain?

Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, Christopher Buckley... they're all hilarious.

I love David Sedaris, too... even if he does make Sally want to pluck her eyelashes out.

Confederacy of Dunces is one of my top three favorite books of all time.

I love David Sedaris too.

The only authors that have honestly made me laugh out loud might be Augusten Burroughs and that guy who wrote Sex Lives of Cannibals. Oh and Sean Condon.

Augusten Burroughs is great, but I generally laugh while cringing when reading him. All my other favorite funny books are British, though. So, not much help from me.

I laughed a little while reading Mary Roach's work.

Was it more of a chortle?

Oh, I won the thread, bitches! Mary put Tender Buttons on her to-read list.

That's how it's done.

Thanks so much everyone for your fabulous suggestions! I've added a few things on my to-read list and am looking forward to them! As far as Hemingway goes...I think A Moveable Feast will be delightfully entertaining and I think that is what I will read first once I'm done with my current book.
Keep the suggestions flowing as you feel compelled!
Satire might also be in order. I don't necessarily want to be laughing the whole way through, but to be struck by funny moments/characters.

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove has everything and is my favorite. Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings is delightful.

Nothing funny about Steinbeck for me but I love Twain's satire, especially what was published after his death: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

Lg called us bitches.


::gleams::

With pride?

Nope. There was an unfortunate Bedazzling accident. We try not to bring it up, as it's a touchy subject.

You Bedazzled Sally?

I hope you didn't Vajazzle her.

Ok he is British, but you should give him a try anyway, Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair, I LOVE that book, and it's really funny :-)

::de-vajazzles self::

There is Bill Cosby though I didn't read the books we had that he had done.

I have read an inspirational book by a songwriter/comedian called Out Of Control. It was by Mark Lowry.

Sally wrote: "::de-vajazzles self::"

I think you liked that a little too much.

Maybe The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-aholic would be LOLerific? It's where Jennifer Love Hewitt talks about the joys of vajazzling oneself.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Maybe The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-aholic would be LOLerific? It's where Jennifer Love Hewitt talks about the joys of vajazzling oneself."

That sounds more like a horror story than anything else

Mary's avatar looks like Lg lite.

Focus, Mynheer Peeperkorn.

Focus on what, dear Liza, dear Liza?

Anything.

OOOOOO!



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I think you put your batteries in wrong, Sally. It's usually +|-

:-D

Sally wrote: "Mary's avatar looks like Lg lite."

should I be offended? I don't even have an avatar...?

Avatar just means the picture you have associated with yourself.

I think Sally is calling me fat, is what is going on here.

Could it be Sally means the picture itself is light coloured and looks similiar to your other avatar Lg?

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