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whatausername · 2023-10-31T20:47:18+00:00

I'm particularly melancholy tonight. Hit me with some funnies!

coolmum123 · 11/11/2023 13:27

MammaM23 · 11/11/2023 13:07

Aw thanks again so much. I've looked in all my cupboards but I have no spare copy of e to send you to replace the one you lost :(. If you're still looking for a laugh, I have a new novel out this week on Amazon called How to be a Most Excellent Parent. Nothing like e but it might raise a few smiles :) xxx

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Ah no worries, I'll look out for your one 😊

MammaM23 · 11/11/2023 13:07

coolmum123 · 11/11/2023 07:52

Thanks to Matt for writing it!!!
I read the book back in 2003 and I was laughing so hard my OH was dying to read it! My copy went to so many people and unfortunately I never got it back, but the story has stuck, so many funny moments. I'm laughing now thinking about it 🤣🤣🤣

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Aw thanks again so much. I've looked in all my cupboards but I have no spare copy of e to send you to replace the one you lost :(. If you're still looking for a laugh, I have a new novel out this week on Amazon called How to be a Most Excellent Parent. Nothing like e but it might raise a few smiles :) xxx

Soozikinzii · 11/11/2023 08:18

Anything by BillBryson or Dolly Alderton.

Roystonv · 11/11/2023 07:56

I love Chronicles of St Mary's but feel they do have some difficult/emotional times in between the fun.

coolmum123 · 11/11/2023 07:52

MammaM23 · 11/11/2023 00:50

I can't tell you how happy your post made me. My husband wrote e. We're both authors and it was the first time either one of us had been published. Such happy days. Thank you for the reminder. It means a lot.

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Thanks to Matt for writing it!!!
I read the book back in 2003 and I was laughing so hard my OH was dying to read it! My copy went to so many people and unfortunately I never got it back, but the story has stuck, so many funny moments. I'm laughing now thinking about it 🤣🤣🤣

nocoolnamesleft · 11/11/2023 01:32

Most of Pratchett's books.
Chronicles of St Mary's.

WhoWants2Know · 11/11/2023 01:30

coolmum123 · 09/11/2023 23:50

It's an oldie but the funniest book I read was e:a novel. Can't remember who the author is
It's a story about an advertising company pitching for the coca cola account and it's all written in the form of emails. I was in stitches reading it as some of the characters reminded me of my work colleagues at the time.

That's "E" by Matt Beaumont. I bloody love that book, it makes me cry laughing every time.

MammaM23 · 11/11/2023 00:50

coolmum123 · 09/11/2023 23:50

It's an oldie but the funniest book I read was e:a novel. Can't remember who the author is
It's a story about an advertising company pitching for the coca cola account and it's all written in the form of emails. I was in stitches reading it as some of the characters reminded me of my work colleagues at the time.

I can't tell you how happy your post made me. My husband wrote e. We're both authors and it was the first time either one of us had been published. Such happy days. Thank you for the reminder. It means a lot.

SleepPrettyDarling · 11/11/2023 00:45

A bit dated now but I still find Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis very funny.

MammaM23 · 11/11/2023 00:43

I can't tell you how happy your post made me. My husband wrote e. We're both authors and it was the first time either one of us had been published. Such happy days. Thank you for the reminder. It means a lot.

evtheria · 10/11/2023 23:17

The Maze (Panos Karnezis)

stayathomer · 10/11/2023 23:15

Anything by Rich Amoii, Keris Stainton, Tracy Bloom, B R maycock (all rom coms) or there’s a book called how self help didn’t change my life

TraumatisedatChristmas1986 · 10/11/2023 23:10

The TimeWaster Letters. Silly but brilliant.

GimpMasksAndWagonWheels · 10/11/2023 23:06

'In at the deep end' has recently properly made me laugh out loud. My username is one of the chapter titles

Tessisme · 10/11/2023 22:57

I loved Tom Sharpe's novels. I read them a long time ago, so not sure how well they've aged, but Wilt, the Wilt Alternative and Riotous Assembly were all favourites of mine.

Sittingintheshade · 10/11/2023 22:56

I know it’s a teen type book but

angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging.

i still find it hilarious

LightSpeeds · 10/11/2023 22:53

The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

It's about a group of (fairly posh) British blokes who decide to climb the mountain Rum Doodle in Nepal? But they're all totally incompetent, especially at the jobs they've been assigned to (which are supposed to be in their areas of expertise).

Recommended by Bill Bryson. Look up the reviews on Amazon.

TuneInThisTimeNextWeek · 10/11/2023 22:36

Jasper Fforde’s ‘Thursday Next’ series. The Eyre Affair is the first one - completely bonkers!

OliveHenry · 10/11/2023 00:09

coolmum123 · 09/11/2023 23:50

It's an oldie but the funniest book I read was e:a novel. Can't remember who the author is
It's a story about an advertising company pitching for the coca cola account and it's all written in the form of emails. I was in stitches reading it as some of the characters reminded me of my work colleagues at the time.

e by Matt Beaumont - it's very funny.

Matt Beaumont e: A Novel https://amzn.eu/d/g4SbbDU

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minipie · 09/11/2023 23:52

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. And her second one, not quite as funny but still good.

Hitchhiker’s Guide series.

coolmum123 · 09/11/2023 23:50

It's an oldie but the funniest book I read was e:a novel. Can't remember who the author is
It's a story about an advertising company pitching for the coca cola account and it's all written in the form of emails. I was in stitches reading it as some of the characters reminded me of my work colleagues at the time.

PermanentTemporary · 01/11/2023 19:05

A bit dated I suppose but I loved French Revolutions by Tim Moore.

CheesePleaseLoueese · 01/11/2023 19:01

Pretty much anything by Pratchett

JaneyGee · 01/11/2023 18:57

The first half of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. John Betjamen said that when Waugh read it out loud to him, he knew he'd never read anything funnier.

Also, Right Ho Jeeves, by P G Wodehouse, which is as close to perfection as any work of art I know. The prize giving speech is pure genius. Read Wodehouse out loud. There is literally nothing like it in all literature. Better than Prozac.

I'm very fond of Bill Bryson, Douglas Adams, Oscar Wilde, Dickens, etc. But they are merely witty or amusing. None of them hit the heights of Waugh and Wodehouse.

CatChant · 01/11/2023 10:12

Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men on a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel,
EF Benson’s Mapp and Lucia series,
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series,
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey and Maturin series,
Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm,
Bill Bryson’s The Lost Continent, A Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Small Island.