What's the funniest book you've ever read?

[Hadiqa]

Hmm, The Nightmare Affair and Attachments

[suzy1124]

Any Woody Allen or Joan Rivers book............also Fran Leibowitz ( Social Studies and Metropolitan Life )

[jjones3841]

A great many. Most recently, the Charlie Davidson series by Darynda Jones.

[Redlegs]

Someone else mentioned it - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Totally brilliant - what a pity he took his own life before the book was published and achieved the success he had always coveted.

Any book by Matthew Reilly also makes me laugh out loud because the plots are so ridiculous - but I don't think that is an intended response.

[lovablegeek123]

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt. There's a part where she takes a woman's bra and poses it places and proceeds to take pictures of it and then mails it to the woman. OH my gosh I wish I had experienced that in real life!!

[dhaines429]

There are so many to choose from but I've got to go with "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. The whole series was just zany fun. Some close runners up come from Vonnegut, I just like his off the wall style of writing.

[atalayamonia 18]

One book comes to mind as one of the funniest books I have ever read. Confucius Lives Next Door by T.R. Reid. His insightful and witty comments on the Japanese culture are too funny.

[jillyshub52+]

"When You Are Engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris. For me it was the funniest.

[HotchPotch]

"Boom!"

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"

both by Mark Haddon

It was funny because of witty, honest to goodness, downright making sense

[Himmelslicht]

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, probably.
Or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

[steveallen1981]

My Booky Wook by Russell Brand. Although it touches on serious issues such as alcoholism and drug addictiin, some of the stories of the scrapes Russell got into are hilarious.

[AJMartin]

The funniest book I have ever read is "I Want to Go Home" by Gordon Korman.

[Meehan_Connor]

"This Is a Book" by Demetri Martin is one of my favorites--just an unorthodox look into a quirky(but hilarious) mind. As far as novels go, anything by Justin Halpern is hysterical(of "S*** My Dad Says" fame).

[gmarie122]

Lamb by Christopher Moore was excellent. The character Biff was one of my favorite fictional characters.

[perception99]

I fell out of bed laughing at Tom Sharpe's "Indecent Exposure". Several of his other novels have had me laughing like a loon.