one literary funny book i like is Comemadre by Roque Larraquy.
it is about a machine that cuts peoples' heads off.
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 16 March 2024 20:41 (three months ago) link
"Simply THE funniest science fiction book ever written"
John Sladek is forgotten, I guess, but The Reproductive System is really funny.
― alimosina, Saturday, 16 March 2024 23:31 (three months ago) link
Not forgotten by me, although I haven’t read that one yet.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 March 2024 23:38 (three months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:01 (three months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:01 (three months ago) link
Grebt turnout!
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:07 (three months ago) link
Huh, I've read a couple of Baker's novels but not that one. Guess I should give it a shot.
― o. nate, Friday, 22 March 2024 19:16 (three months ago) link
I'm definitely going with the first Alan Partridge novel, I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan. Maybe the humour's too British for American audiences, but it had me laughing like a lunatic for hundreds of pages. I don't suppose I'd find many of the books in the NYT list very funny at all.
And what about Thomas Bernhard? Or Michel Houellebecq?
― gravalicious, Sunday, 24 March 2024 11:27 (three months ago) link
Ah, it says the funniest novels in English. So that rules out Thomas Bernhard and Houellebecq.
― gravalicious, Sunday, 24 March 2024 11:29 (three months ago) link