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Recommend a laugh out loud read!

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danahnahnahnah · 19/04/2019 04:30

I am in need of a good laugh!

Any good suggestions for a funny book?

I recently read 'This is Going to Hurt' which was fab! But need a new recommended read...

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ednclouda · 11/05/2019 18:06

'Driving over lemons' hilarious

MargotMoon · 09/05/2019 19:36

Also just finished The Tent, The Bucket...(VERY FUNNY) and thanks to PP for the warning not to bother with the follow up!

BreconBeBuggered · 09/05/2019 19:30

I thought it was okay, but as a follow-up, it's not in the same league.

5foot5 · 09/05/2019 16:35

BTW - to other fans of "The Tent, The Bucket and Me" - Emma Kennedy has written another book of travel memoirs called "I Left Mt Tent in San Francisco." However, I cannot say that I recommend it. I was glad I had borrowed it from the library rather than bought it IYSWIM. I suspect her publisher said, after Tent & Bucket, "Oh that was great have you got any more funny stories?", hence this book. Not in the same league as her first book at all - very thin material.

5foot5 · 09/05/2019 16:31

Another for The Tent, The Bucket and Me! Great fun

Ha! I came on this thread to recommend that. I have been re-reading it this week having read it once before. Even second time round I was guffawing at things I had forgotten about. DD and DH also love it too.

floraloctopus · 07/05/2019 19:53

Love, Nina was dire. I really wanted to like it but it was dreadfully dull.

Sandi Toksvig the chain of curiosity
Adam Fletcher very British problems
Hugh Dennis Britty Britty bang bang - don't read this on a train
Dara O'briain - tickling the English

dingit · 04/05/2019 10:00

Nick Spalding books, especially the earlier ones

TeaMeBasil · 04/05/2019 09:56

Another for The Tent, The Bucket and Me! Great fun 😄

BreconBeBuggered · 04/05/2019 00:19

Second a pp's recommendation of The Tent, the Bucket and Me. Very very funny.

bellinisurge · 02/05/2019 11:36

Red Dwarf. Maybe it was a "right time, right place" thing but someone left me a copy on their way to somewhere else- they stayed overnight with me. I had been reading Dickens before hand and needed a change. Some shit was going down too.
I nearly pee-ed myself laughing when I read it.

AllOuttaIdeas · 02/05/2019 11:23

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
Caitlin Moran - How to Build A Girl
Dear Lupin - Roger Mortimer

And of course - the Adrian Mole books!

katseyes7 · 24/04/2019 20:52

l'm with Bittern11. Anything Bill Bryson, but especially The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. l wouldn't dare read it on a train.

Upthepong · 24/04/2019 20:52

Clive James Unreliable Memoirs
Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals

Georgiedoyle92 · 24/04/2019 20:49

Show them a good time by Nicole Flattery
Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
Wilful disregard by Lena Andersson

AzraiL · 22/04/2019 04:42

The Adrain Mole books.
Anything written by Douglas Adams.

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danahnahnahnah · 22/04/2019 04:34

Wow loads of great suggestions! Thank you.
I'll get my kindle on charge ready!

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HaroldsSocalledBluetits · 21/04/2019 02:38

Diary of a nobody

The collector collector

Three men in a boat

1066 and all that

Tolleshunt · 21/04/2019 02:06

David Lodge books, especially 'Therapy'.

Dontfuckingsaycheese · 21/04/2019 01:32

Starter for Ten had me guffawing 😉

Time40 · 21/04/2019 01:31

Diary of a Provincial Lady

Cold Comfort Farm

The Mapp and Lucia books

(all 1930s, but still hilarious)

pinkginplease · 21/04/2019 01:28

This is going to hurt by Adam Kay
I second the Adrian mole books also my 11 year old son is now reading them which gives me such joy they are amazing!

BluntAndToThePoint · 21/04/2019 01:19

I second the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. They've had me cackling to myself like a madwoman on the plane a fair few times.

drigon · 21/04/2019 01:01

It's Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004)

Tunt · 21/04/2019 00:59

Nina Stibbe really makes me laugh. Love, Nina is fab but her novels really make me belly laugh.

drigon · 21/04/2019 00:57

The one with him living in a warehouse apartment with the swans outside is very good.

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