I dont really laugh when reading ..do you?

[Sidebeforeself]

Ive read so many “funny”books but I rarely laugh out loud. Im always disappointed when being told books are funny. Books by Woodhouse and Jerome K Jerome dont raise a smile even though I like them.

I think Ive only ever laughed at two books - Love, Nina and Where D’You Go Bernadette . I did laugh at Adam Kays first book but that was because real life is funny not because of his writing.

Anyone else like this?

@katseyes7 you’re very welcome. Yes, just thinking about the crow in the exhaust had been giggling all over again.

mind you, an early memory is of my mum crying with laughter when reading me ‘Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf’ so it obviously runs in the family!

Tom Sharpe and Bill Bryson made me laugh out loud.

Sometimes I do. I also once burst into tears on the bus at the ending of ‘the road’

My family and other animals made me laugh out loud.

Rarely. I do remember laughing at Bill Bryson some years ago. Now I read something and often think, hmm, I can see that is MEANT to be funny, but it isn't. Mostly too contrived I guess.

Yes, sometimes. Funny is hard to do though, so but as often as I'd like.

Yes often.

Another Bill Bryson fan here. I have read his books several times over, and still am in stitches. I choose to read them specifically if I need a pick me up 😊

The Bridget Jones books had me actually laughing out loud so much, my normally history/war/autobiography reading DH couldn't wait to read them after me.
They, and Garfield are the only books to have done that.

There are some laugh out loud moments in ‘Travels with my Aunt’ (I don’t recommend reading this book on the 07:50 commute to London Bridge!).

Yet another Bill Bryson shoutout. Snorting out loud on the train and tears of laughter.

Usually a chortle but I've laughed alot at Terry Pratchett, and its always so hard to explain why its funny when someone's asks, just met with a blank look back when I describe what's funny. Some things just tickle me, I cracked up at "see a pin, pick it up, all day long you'll have a pin" but it needs context and my husband just didn't find it funny at all when he asked what inwas laughing at 😆

Also laughed aloud at Bill Bryson :)

Occasionally. But it's more like a 'snort' or a little 'titter' escapes, or I'll be grinning whilst I'm reading it. I don't really properly laugh out loud when reading books.

A few posts on here by very funny people making quips have made me snigger, but not in a raucous proper laugh out loud way.

I read Down Under by Bill Bryson lying poolside in Kefalonia. I was crying with laughter. I mean I could barely read a line without cracking up. It was worse trying to hold it in, I had tears running down my face and was wheezing like Steptoe. When the last person packed up I was finally able to let go.

Yes Sue Townsend's books. Remember reading Adrian Mole as a teenager and lending it to my brother afterwards, and lying in bed hearing his laughter from the next room!
Also found Morrissey's autobiography really funny. He's hilarious.

Yep JD Kirk has made me crack up many times!

@TonstantWeader Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf! I used to feel so sorry for the
wolf but I still laugh (to myself) when I remember the one with the ear trumpet.

Reading funny books to children is lovely. My DNephew and I had a good laugh at The Tale of Tom Kitten by Beatrix Potter a couple of years ago.

James Herriot’s books made me laugh and cry . I laughed out loud reading Windswept and Interesting by Billy Connolly . Bill Bryson is funny too .

The passage in Neither Here Nor There where Bill Bryson imagines a man having a dinner date with a blow-up doll made me literally weep with laughter.

The passage in Peter Kay’s first book about being shown The Terminator on a school coach trip did the same.

Wodehouse makes me chuckle, as does The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

But some of the old threads on Mumsnet have made me laugh more than anything else I’ve ever read. I used to be unable to breathe for laughing. Women are so funny.

Some of my fondest memories are of reading Mr Grim books to my boys. We used to howl, and still quote them to each other to this day 😀

Woody Allen, David Sidaris, wry smile Jane Austen.

The 'Jennings' books made me laugh out loud when I was a kid too.

reading the thread with the "sweaty bum hole" had me laughing and im still laughing thinking about it

Irvine Welsh books have made me laugh out loud, but I come from Scottish family so brought up with Scottish humour.

I like it when I hear people giggling when they're reading!!