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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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chevre · 17/06/2009 20:56

anything by marian keyes

twoluvlykids · 17/06/2009 20:56

Marley and Me

8oreighty · 17/06/2009 20:59

Anything by David Sedaris, had me in fits while waiting in casualty once...actually finding that Slummy Mummy book funny, but you prob. already read that one?

myfeethurt · 17/06/2009 21:20

starter for ten by David Nicholls

ActivityApple · 17/06/2009 21:23

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UnquietDad · 17/06/2009 21:25

I was about to say the same as myfeethurt!

Humour is very personal though. Some Christmases I'd be in the corner choking with laughter to Pratchett, and would read a chunk out to my mum and sister to stony silence.

Last couple of books which really made me laugh were non-fic - Bill Bryson's Down Under and Stuart Maconie's Pies & Prejudice.

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Kayteee · 17/06/2009 21:26

thanks so far ladies...rofl @ rofling like a loony!!

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janeite · 17/06/2009 21:27

Gotta be Bryson.

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Kayteee · 17/06/2009 21:27

oh, ehem, should be thank you ladies and gentlemen...

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yappybluedog · 18/06/2009 10:36

Janet Evanovich, very easy reads & lol funny

TsarChasm · 18/06/2009 10:40

Just came on to suggest Starter For Ten but beaten to it! V funny tho.

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

TsarChasm · 18/06/2009 10:41

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

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

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.

UnquietDad · 18/06/2009 11:03

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

Bucharest · 18/06/2009 11:05

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 11:05

Got it, just started it!

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.

EachPeachPearMum · 18/06/2009 11:13

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

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).

Jux · 19/06/2009 22:00

Jasper Fforde - anything by him.

pickyvic · 19/06/2009 22:24

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

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.

cornsilk · 20/06/2009 20:45

The Timewaster Letters.