Have we had a thread about very very funny books lately?

[Pruners]

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Oh Pruni, you poor thing. Do you want to drop him off here tomorrow while you go book shopping? It would be absolutely fine, you know

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Bags, I loved Are You Experienced, what an excellent book. He peaked young I fear
And am honour-bound to agree that the mighty JC has some wonderful moments, as cited, but also the swimming pool fiasco in The Rotters Club had me weeping and incoherent with laughter
No mention yet for Jeeves and Wooster, or Blandings , or The Diary of a Nobody

OK, have a good time (will try and remember the Quincunx when I go in on Friday...)

Zoinks pruni, bad luck about the widdle. He'll end up reviewing books for the Times at this rate though
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon had some good moments too

I read Quincunx recently. Couldn't quite see what the fuss was about - but then I did fail to see the hidden plot.

Its appearance on a thread discussing seam-poppingly funny books is quite amusing in itself

The Stork Club....highly entertaining!

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It was pruners. The books is even funnier, I promise. The extended opening scene with the transsexual friend and the hateful party is a classic.
Also one of the few films Michael Douglas has made lately where he doesn't try to play 20 years younger.

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Don't forget Three Men in a Boat even though it is 19th Century - it still makes me laugh (e.g. opening the tin of pineapple, description of papering the parlour and the famous trip to Hampton Court Maze).

life and times of the thunderbolt kid..bill bryson...nearly popped my piles out

can't remember what it is called but the childhood one of clive james autobiographies (?unreliable memoirs)is funny in a similar way

may contain nuts by john o'farrell tickled my funny bone

how to murder your husband and other handy house hold hints kathy lette...plot not very taxing but lots of one liners that tickled me

And to anyone who loves him, new book from Woody Allen is out. I'm going to order it on amazon NOW.

Unreliable Memoirs is ace "the resident choir coloratura warbling away like a dingo with its paw caught in a trap", wonderful book
And Joe Queenan's "If you're talking to me your career is in trouble" is good too, as is Giles Smith's "Lost in Music".

more please