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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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mrsjavierbardem · 20/03/2014 13:22

Decline and Fall is a tea spitter I agree, lucky jim made me laugh too but I wonder whether it hasn't dated?
Also Pride And Prejudice is very funny too I think.

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Swoosg · 21/03/2014 17:26

P. G. Wodehouse is laugh-out-loud funny.

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OBface · 06/04/2014 22:34

Jenny Eclair novels are the only books I have genuinely laughed out loud at. Highly recommended.

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iseenodust · 07/04/2014 15:05

Wilt by Tom Sharpe.
Sick puppy by Carl Hiaasen (don't be put off by the title).

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Lemongrab · 07/04/2014 18:20

I just came on to recommend P.G Wodehouse but Swoosg beat me to it! Jeeves and Wooster books in particular always have me in stitches.

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