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I reeeeeaaaallly need a good lol-book

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Kayteee · 17/06/2009 20:55

I could do with something very very funny atm. You know the tear-producing kind.
Any suggestions please?
TIA

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LyraSilvertongue · 01/07/2009 22:38

Starter for 10 had me crying with laughter. The film was a real letdown, not funny at all.

Tamasin · 26/06/2009 22:00

Trendy But Casual by Paula Morris is just fantastically funny. I started it while I was on bedrest at 8 months and had to stop because it was giving me serious contractions. It is just brilliant - not chicklit but intelligent humour comedy. It's called a comedy of manners. She is a really fantastic writer. You can get it from Books New Zealand - It's published by Penguin New Zealand or from normal amazon.

IrritableGrizzly · 25/06/2009 15:08

James Thurber "The Thurber Carnival"

Clive James "Unreliable Memoirs"

Also agree with India Knight "Don't You Want Me" - the bumsex film titles game is brilliant! And 'raaaah, hot lady!'

Maria2007 · 23/06/2009 14:08

I mentioned 'Any human heart' as funny. I take it back: NOT funny, very sad actually.

pocketmonster · 22/06/2009 22:15

I second India Knight 'My Life on a Plate' and also 'Don't You Want Me' - I was literally LOL.

Babbity · 22/06/2009 22:08

The Mortdecai Trilogy by Kyril Bonfiglioli is hysterical.

Agree re Adrian Mole + WMD (is that the one with the swans...?)

HeliumBee · 22/06/2009 22:06

Adrian Mole - esp Weapons of Mass Destruction - my husband has been belly laughing at Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawkes - it is quite funny!
Three Men in a Boat - good one and a classic too.
Avoid Cold Comfort Farm - touted as hilarious - but was actually quite dull (though I may have missed the point!) - Timewaster Letters is OK - but a bit short for my liking and gets a bit samey.
I liked This is Your life by John O Farrell.
Good luck!

meridian · 22/06/2009 10:36

anything by bill bryson.. especally his biography one the thunderbolt kid ... had me howling anyway and thats not soemthing i do often.. but that might have something to do with my reading alot of horror and urban fantasy

hocuspontas · 21/06/2009 20:03

Bill Bryson Down Under - or any really. No one mentioned P G Wodehouse yet? Some of the non-Wooster ones have left me helpless

MissM · 21/06/2009 19:52

Fotherington-Thomas. He is a wet and a weed.

I read them as a kid too, then found an anthology in Waterstone's recently after I'd been reading a tribute thread on here. I was laughing at the thread, so had to buy the book. It's sublime.

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Kayteee · 21/06/2009 00:32

oh, MissM,

I remember reading the Molesworth stories when I was a kid..wow, I had forgotten them.

Fotherington Smythe or something...he was a weed, if I recall!!

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cornsilk · 20/06/2009 20:45

The Timewaster Letters.

MissM · 20/06/2009 20:44

Down with Skool. One of the Molesworth books. DH is getting irritated by me cackling at it in bed.

pickyvic · 19/06/2009 22:24

oh im just reading lost in a good book jux! i concur!

Jux · 19/06/2009 22:00

Jasper Fforde - anything by him.

Maria2007 · 18/06/2009 22:39

I second (actually, I third) 'starter for ten'.

I also seem to remember I laughed out loud quite a lot with 'Prayer for Owen Meany' (mind you, I also cried a lot with that).

The book I'm reading now is, I think, very very funny: 'Any human heart' by William Boyd. Hilarious! (and a very good read in many other ways).

EachPeachPearMum · 18/06/2009 11:13

Lou - certainly one of the best titles I've ever seen!

LouLovesAeroplaneJelly · 18/06/2009 11:10

'Don' tell mum im working on the oil rigs.She thinks I am a piano player in a whore house' by Paul Carter
The FUNNIEST book I have read. Had to get off the bus to find a loo I thought I was going to wet my pants.

UnquietDad · 18/06/2009 11:05

Got it, just started it!

Bucharest · 18/06/2009 11:05

Have you read the Middle England one yet? I'm back in the Uk in 2 weeks and it will be the first thing I buy!

UnquietDad · 18/06/2009 11:03

Disclaimer: I'm not northern but I thought Maconie's P&P was hilarious.

Bucharest · 18/06/2009 11:01

Are you northern? Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie....like Bryson, but more relateable as it's about Brits.

Theimperialcharliecat · 18/06/2009 10:57

India Knight - My life on a Plate made me bark with laughter and I concur with 8oreighty, anything by David Sedaris

TsarChasm · 18/06/2009 10:41

Also 'Are You Experienced' by William Sutcliffe was funny too.

namechangerforareason · 18/06/2009 10:41

Anything by Christopher Brookmyre, always made me laugh quite loud and get many many stares from folks on the bus to work