Funny Books

[frizzytwig]

I like reading funny books, have read Tom Sharpe, Carl Haaisen, Stephen Fry, Janet Evanovich and Ben Elton. Can anybody recommend any other good comic authors.

[janelle_ire]

i'd say you'd have to be irish to fully appreciate this books but they are from paul howard. the ross o'carroll- kelly books- the teenage dirtbag years, the mis-education years, the orange mocha- chip frappuccino years and ps, i scored the bridesmaids. pure class!

[frizzytwig]

Thanks jannelle, will give it ago. May appreciate the humour as I'm married to a Dubliner and spend a fair amount of time there.

[cook1254]

Hi Frizzy, how about trying Roddy Doyle? There is his trilogy The commitments, Snapper and The van. Then there is Paddy clark Ha Ha Ha  and The woman who walked into a door .Both the last two are sad as well as being hilariously funny too.

[LeMarchand]

If you like humorous crime novels, try "Cross Dressing" and (especially) "Pest Control" by Bill Fitzhugh, though his other novels aren't quite as good IMHO.

[pixi]

Have you tried Marianne Keyes?  I always go for horror/sci fi but got a free book by M Keyes on a magazine.  I gave it a go and laughed all way through so much so that I read another one of hers.  Sorry can't remember titles.

[spudqueen]

Not novels, but Bill Bryson always makes me chuckle.

[shivvy]

I have read a few Ben Elton novels but no matter how hard I try - I cannot find them funny.  Is it just me?!!

[queen bee]

Shopaholic books by Sophie Kinsella always make me chuckle.

[splange]

 a confederacy of dunces. A laugh out loud read.

[Aschenbach]

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby made me laugh out loud a couple of times.

Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K Jerome or Diary Of A Nobody - Arthur Goldsmith, were written a long time ago but are still funny to me in a different way - also PG Wodehouse. 

[jamesy boy]

If you like black humour, try Chris Brookmyre: Action thrillers that are also hilarious!

(You may remember the recent TV adaptation of "Quite Ugly One Morning" with James Nesbitt as Jack Parlabaine.)

[RogK]

I've never laughed as much as I did at "Three Men in a Boat". And try the books of Stephen ******* - completely bonkers!

[RogK]

The word I tried to type above was "Lea" followed by the male version of a hen(!)_

[Trillipse]

Have you ever read anything by Tibor Fischer?

The Collector Collector is excellent. As is The Thought Gang. Under the Frog, though slightly less accessible and a good deal more melancholy, is wonderful too.