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Shandyleer · 02/03/2009 14:57

Have just been re-reading the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, and had forgotten how much they made me giggle. Tried to explain to DH what was so funny but he just looked bemused. Which books have made you laugh?

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Molesworth · 02/03/2009 14:59

Lucky Jim made me snort out loud on the tube

Julian Barnes' The Pedant in the Kitchen is also very funny.

March's book club book (What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn) made me snigger on the first page.

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ComeWhineWithMe · 02/03/2009 15:03

Adrian Mole all of them.

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Sazisi · 02/03/2009 15:07

David Sedaris (any of his books ) I re-read him about once a year

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Sazisi · 02/03/2009 15:08

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, I could do with some levity right now. I feel a trip to Waterstones coming on

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Molesworth · 02/03/2009 15:10

Oh yes, Adrian Mole and David Sedaris: both brilliant!

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 02/03/2009 15:11

Geoff Dyer - out of Sheer Rage, bloody hilarious.

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NellieTheEllie · 02/03/2009 15:29

Anything by Bill Bryson.

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WowOoo · 02/03/2009 15:35

Magnus Mills - The Restraint Of Beasts.
Quite dry humour and then sudden, unexpected hyseterical bits.

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christywhisty · 02/03/2009 16:05

Derec Longdens autobiographies the are very sad but also very funny.

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JFly · 02/03/2009 16:08

A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. A modern epic. I laughed, I cried. It's a BRILLIANT BOOK.

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steamedtreaclesponge · 02/03/2009 16:09

India Knight's two novels - v silly but also v funny
Anything by Gerald Durrell
How to be Topp and Back in the Jug Agane

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dorothygale · 02/03/2009 16:10

Tony hawks- round Ireland with a fridge and playing the moldovians at tennis

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FlorenceDaphne · 02/03/2009 16:11

Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson. Although it's set in the 70s, it's so reminiscent of university life that it makes me HOWL with laughter. I totally recommend it.

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jobschmob · 02/03/2009 16:12

I second Bill Bryson.

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MrsJamesMartin · 02/03/2009 16:14

All of the Adrian Moles, Diary of a middle aged woman most things by Sue Townsend

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francagoestohollywood · 02/03/2009 16:14

PG Wodehouse.
And 3 men in a boat
Even bits of most of Bret Easton Ellis books

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geminigirl · 02/03/2009 16:14

Rachels Holiday by Marian Keyes....all emotions covered here!

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deanychip · 02/03/2009 16:15

i second Tony Hawks...Hillarious book,
also 2nd anything by Bill Bryson, brilliant.

the fat ladies club is funny...(until the end!)

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DeeBlindMice · 02/03/2009 16:17

Anita and Me by Meera Syal

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear and Volokhonsky trans.), although I bet the original Russian is also funny if you can read Russian.

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Lio · 02/03/2009 16:18

dh laughed out loud a lot at Catch-22. I didn't even realise it was funny

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rookiemater · 02/03/2009 16:18

I heartily embarassed myself at the poolside of a ritzy hotel in New England by completely rolling hysterically round on my beach chair at least 10 times reading The Thunderbolt Kid.

A random stranger came up to ask me what I was reading.

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Ivykaty44 · 02/03/2009 16:20

Christy - I so agree, I giggled and laughed out loud at all of them, from the rose on the tray at breakfast to the vets that wasn't a vets at all They are das but so very funny.

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muffle · 02/03/2009 16:20

Lucky Jim definitely
Fiona Gibson the Fish Finger Years - there is a bit about a crap holiday that just made me completely incapable with laughter.

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jumpingbeans · 02/03/2009 16:23

Marian Keyes, - Is their anybody out there, some bits very funny.

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cornsilk · 02/03/2009 16:24

The Timewaster letters.

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