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Can anyone recommend any seriously funny reads please?

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JuanPotatoTwo · 14/03/2014 20:30

I've recently read The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams which I thought was very funny. I'd forgotten quite how satisfying a book that can make you laugh out loud could be, so on the back of The Wimbledon Poisoner I read two other books by the same author but found them a bit disappointing.

Have you read anything properly funny that you would recommend? TIA?

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DuchessofMalfi · 15/03/2014 08:19

Definitely Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island made me howl with laughter.

contortionist · 15/03/2014 06:40

The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (now a series)

runawaysimba · 15/03/2014 06:37

Skippy Dies. Forget the author, but that was the last novel that made me proper laugh. Second Bill Bryson for non-fiction

hellokittymania · 15/03/2014 06:13

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up (forgot the author)

Sand in my Bra (Collection of travel stories)

DuchessofMalfi · 15/03/2014 06:04

The Rosie Project - lots of laugh out loud scenes in there. Appealed to my sense of humour. And Non fiction - Love Nina by Nina Stibbe. Made me laugh. It's very light-hearted.

Others - Cold Comfort Farm, James Herriott's vet books, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

That's off the top of my head. Will try to think of more later Smile