I need to read something that will make me laugh, any recommendations?

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cadelaide · 25/08/2011 00:21

Too much doom and gloom on my bookshelf.

Jonathan Coe makes me laugh in "House of Sleep" (well he did 15-odd years ago anyway).

Any ideas?

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FreddoBaggyMac · 25/08/2011 19:19

I second The Tent, The Bucket and Me. In terms of a book to make you laugh out loud it's probably my all time Number 1. Some mumsnetters despise it but personally I think that's because they're treating it as something that it was never meant to be! If you think of it as a good story which is a somewhat exaggerated version of the truth you can't fail to love it imo!

I'm currently reading the sequel and it's just as good, but so far not quite so laugh-out loud funny.

BooBooGlass · 25/08/2011 13:05

I'm reading The Tent, The Bucket and Me, and it really is very funny. I needed it, I've just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and it depressed the hell out of me.

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cadelaide · 25/08/2011 13:03

OK.

Which Sedaris?

Never heard of him, this should be ineteresting.

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 25/08/2011 12:45

Think I need to get some Sedaris too. Have heard him on R4 and thought he was hilarious then heard him interviewed on the radio and loved that as well.

PenguindreamsofDraco · 25/08/2011 08:41

PG Wodehouse, no contest. If you can read the account of the prizegiving in Right Ho Jeeves without crying with laughter, you're probably dead

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cadelaide · 25/08/2011 00:35

Read Jasper Fforde, but very much along the right lines, thanks.

Will investigate Sedaris, never heard of.

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AlfalfaMum · 25/08/2011 00:32

Have you read any David Sedaris? All autobiographical (but - I suspect - embellished for comic effect), I swear his books can cure depression. Naked was the funniest imo, also Me Talk Pretty One Day

niccibabe · 25/08/2011 00:29

Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair

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