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FNAWrite
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Re: Favorite Funny Author?

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Currently Tim Dorsey. Black humor but laugh out loud in spots.

Christopher Moore can be hilarious. "Sorry, Couldn't be helped" (from Sacre Bleu)

Never heard of Augustin Burroughs.
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I Think Carl Hiaasen is more funny as compared to other.
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Jennifer Cruisie is a lot of fun if you want to read a lighthearted mainstream fiction/romance. She has quirky characters with creative circumstances. I always enjoy curling up with one of her books when I just want to relax and unwind.
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I love the Charley Davidson by Darynda Jones. I consistently find myself laughing out loud at her approach to life and the way she sees the world.
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Post by SPasciuti »

I love this thread. I'll have to go through it and see about reading some of these. I, ironically enough, haven't spent an excessive amount of time reading books that specifically belong to the Humor genre, but I have found a few that I've really enjoyed. The most recent one I've read happens to be a comic/graphic novel sort called Heart and Brain: Body Language. Heart and Brain is perhaps one of the most relatable comics I've ever read and manages to be amazingly hilarious simply by drawing on things that we experience almost regularly.
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An author who really makes me giggle is Jasper Fforde with his Thursday Next Series, as well as his Nursery Crime Stories. His grammatical puns are great and he really knows how to turn an ordinary, even sad situation, into something insanely witty and classy.
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awelker wrote: 06 Feb 2007, 16:52 i love janet evanovich. her books are so funny. for anyone that hasn't read them i highly recommend you do so. i mean seriously they are wicked awsome
they are great! her books aren't exactly high brow literature but they're always sweet and funny. a perfect read for when you just want to relax and enjoy yourself.
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Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Anything from them and I am basically rolling on the floor. I also liked Hardison and his Fish Wielder. Wrote a review on it. It has similar quality and it picked up my day.
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I enjoyed a few books by Tara Sivec and Alice Clayton. Tara especially had several scenes that made me laugh til I cried!
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While parts of her novel are heartbreaking, Tiffany Haddish always has me cracking up!
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Janet Evanovich always cracks me up. I love her character, Grandma Mazur in the Stephanie Plum series. It's basically a Lucile Ball does Jersey bounty hunter type deal with a little sex tastefully thrown in. For a more dark humor, you can't go wrong with Christopher Moore. Even in person, he's amazing!
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uyky wrote: 04 Feb 2018, 05:32 Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Anything from them and I am basically rolling on the floor.
Yes indeed.
lifelongreader wrote: 27 Apr 2007, 06:36 Bill Bryson makes me laugh out loud - and makes me want to share his funny turns of phrase with others, which can be a bit odd when you are on public transport.
Yes, me too: my favourite is the one about the British and their puddings, which I won't repeat here.
JodyVamp wrote: 02 Mar 2018, 13:36 Janet Evanovich always cracks me up. I love her character, Grandma Mazur in the Stephanie Plum series. It's basically a Lucile Ball does Jersey bounty hunter type deal with a little sex tastefully thrown in.
Yup, another favourite – though I stopped hunting them down after five or six, I think – I would still read one if I stumbled across it.

Another laugh-out-loud one for me is Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (didn't like the sequel quite so much)

I also like quiet, understated humour, as in Jane Austen, especially perhaps Emma, though Northanger Abbey, her skit on Gothic novels is also very amusing.

I love P.G. Wodehouse. One of my favourite lines concerns the character Psmith (pronounced “Smith”) so what he says to people is: “My name is Psmith – the P is silent.” That creased me up when I was a teenager. :lol: Then there's the (Bertie Wooster &) Jeeves stories, of course – but not too many at once. I love the Blandings Castle books. Finally, there's a great bit about the town where I grew up
In my early touring days I have sometimes arrived at Southport on a rainy Sunday morning. Gussie gave me that same sense of hopeless desolation. 
it's quite a nice place, really. :)
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Post by Irene C »

I don't really seek out humor in novels, but I love Kristen Gore's novels Sammy's Hill and Sammy's House.
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Janet Evanovich always has me laughing. Her Stephanie Plum Series is one of my favorites for a lighthearted read.
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I love Jasper Fforde and Terry Pratchett. For a gentler laugh, I love Stella Gibbons and her Cold Comfort Farm.
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