Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 20:43     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
A year in The Merde …older but awesome…
I literally laughed our loud on the plane from France to UK
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 20:42     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

This is far and away the worst book I have ever read and it's not the least bit funny.


You beat me to it. It's awful.

Bill Bryson's early work is great, particularly "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", a compendium of a British weekly newspaper column, about coming back to live in the US after many years in Britain.
I fell off my chair when reading the passage about snowmobiling through the woods, and explained what "jettisoning weight via my bladder" meant to my 8 year old. Now it's a household phrase. Equally hilarious are the passage about his experience ice-skating and the one where he carries the Christmas tree into the house.



Well, the overwhelming majority of people disagree with you humorless people. You probably hate New Orleans too.


I’m joining in with the group that couldn’t get through Confederacy of Dunces. I think NO is great though.
I’m also joining in with those who recommend Born a Crime.

No other titles come to mind, so I’ll return to add to the list the next time I read something appropriate.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 20:29     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
The Jeeves and Wooster series. Best ever.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 20:24     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
The Bible
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 20:06     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
Carl Hiasen, Dave Barry
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 20:03     Subject: Re:Please recommend a laugh out loud book
You'll Grow Out of It - Jessi Klein
Look Alive Out There - Sloane Crosley
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 19:57     Subject: Re:Please recommend a laugh out loud book
CivilWard Land in Bad Decline by George Saunders. I had to suppress my laughter reading it on the Metro...
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 19:49     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
Honeymoon with my Brother
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 19:47     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
Pretty much anything by David Sedaris
Stiff by Mary Roach
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 19:37     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
If you’re open to audiobooks, I always listen to a David Sedaris book read by the author when I’m in a funk and need a good laugh.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 19:06     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
Do This For Me by Eliza Kennedy
Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 18:13     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
Anonymous wrote:Bridget Jones's Diary made me laugh out loud constantly when I read it 20 years ago. If you can put Renee Zellwegger out of your mind; she completely ruined it for me once I had to picture her face as the main character. It lost all wit and charm for me.


+1 Yes! Agree w/Born a Crime and Thank you for not Smoking are v. funny.

P.S. Thank you to the person who set up this Forum.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 16:31     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
A Dirty Job. Christopher Moore.

The Lightening-struck Heart. TJ Klune.

The Stephanie Plum books. Janet Evanovich. One for the Money is first.

Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 16:20     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

This is far and away the worst book I have ever read and it's not the least bit funny.


You beat me to it. It's awful.

Bill Bryson's early work is great, particularly "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", a compendium of a British weekly newspaper column, about coming back to live in the US after many years in Britain.
I fell off my chair when reading the passage about snowmobiling through the woods, and explained what "jettisoning weight via my bladder" meant to my 8 year old. Now it's a household phrase. Equally hilarious are the passage about his experience ice-skating and the one where he carries the Christmas tree into the house.



Well, the overwhelming majority of people disagree with you humorless people. You probably hate New Orleans too.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2022 16:19     Subject: Please recommend a laugh out loud book
The Guncle. So funny.