Have you ever read a book that made you laugh out loud, and if so, what was it?
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The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series. The absolute funniest group of books I've ever read in my life ^_^ It's teen fiction from a British writer named Louise Rennison. True brilliance- one more reason to love England XD
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The Moon is a Balloon, David Nivens Autobiograpy
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There have been many, but the first ones that come to mind are, "Running With Scissors" and "America: The Book">
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The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks by Nancy McArther. It's a children's book but I've read it so many times and everytime it makes me laugh to the point of tears. Read it, it's a quick read and it will make you practically pee your pants. It's about two kids who get these weird plants that eat socks and all the troubles that ensue - like the expense of socks, and what they eat when there's no socks, and what happens when their parents find out because there are no socks!
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"A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving is the first one that comes to my mind.
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The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot. I loved those books!
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oh! and Pure Drivel, by Steve Martin. There's a section in there where he writes an imaginary warning label for a drug. Starts off: Take two for back pain. May cause: back pain, and on and on - some hilarious stuff.
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Actually it was a Amish murder mystery by Tamar Myers. She writes about an Amish woman, Magdelana Yoder, from Pennsylvania Dutch country that solves murders that "happen" in her Penn Dutch Inn. Quite funny!
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Not that its really a book, but Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes collections are hilarious
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"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. It's a hilarious book about the life and times of Ignatius J. Reilly and a cast of assorted misfits and boneheads that takes place in New Orleans. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces
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All the books in the Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella. I love the main character, Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood).
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A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine by Marina Lewycka. It is a very unusual, but hilarious story. I totally recommend it.
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Just this week I've been reading a book called Lost Worlds by Michael Bywater. I read on the (crowded) train going into work in the morning and people were looking at me funny as I tried to stifle a chuckle at: "Safe sex? As absurd as the tabloid's "sex romps". Has anyone ever had a "sex romp" - presumably where everyone bounces on the bed a lot, and makes little witticisms, and remains good chums afterwards with no recriminations?" You maybe have to be British to see the humour.... :)
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The Organ Grinders by Bill Fitzhugh. I laughed til I cried!
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Most recently, My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki.
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happyslapped by a jellyfish - karl pilkington.
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"The Bully of Barkham Street." I think the authors name was Mary Sholtz. The book follows the life of a sixth grade bully. It is very comical. I have read the book several times and I still laugh out loud sometimes. +5
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Yesss!!! It's one of my favorite Japanese comic book. Called The Wallflower or "Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge: ヤマトナデシコ七変化", a.k.a Perfect Girl Evolution, is a manga series written by Tomoko Hayakawa. The individual chapters have been serialized in Bessatsu Friend since its premiere in 2000, and in 24 tankÅbon volumes in Japan by Kodansha. The series was licensed for an English language release in North America by Del Rey Manga and in Singapore by Chuang Yi — under the name My Fair Lady. I guess that most of u guys would like it!? It's so COOL, CRAZIST AND FANTASTIC Comedy but there were also many things that can learned about life and etc.
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Yes, 182 Hilarious Jokes! Author: D. Thompson
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Shantaram. Its really rather a sombre book, however the funny parts are so freaking funny that I roared laughing. The best book Ive ever read.
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Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey - actually it was a first in a series of his books. every one is LOL funny. and strange.
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Yes. http://www.hotmagazine.es/
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Many, but the most recent one was 'Slam' by Nick Hornby. I had to put the book down at times becuase I was laughing to much. The other one that springs straight to mind is 'The Wrong Boy' by Willie Russell. It's years since I've read it by the thought of it still makes me smile. Also, all of Tony Hawks's books, but especially 'Playing the Moldovans at Tennis'.
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Yes, Kathy Griffin's new book
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"CITYBOY: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile" by Geraint Anderson Obscene, sexually explicit and LOL funny. BUT It tells you more about why we had a worldwide financial collapse than anything you will see or read from more serious authors. Although it is set in London England, it could equally be New York. It would make a great movie. I would pitch it as "Wall Street" meets "East of Eden". The star should be a new Irish actor called Aidan Turner - not some big established Hollywood star. (Cityboy is a 20 year old financial analyst who starts out as an innocent and then sells his soul.) http://www.amazon.com/Cityboy-Beer-Loathing-Square-Mile/dp/B002CIBVGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259317818&sr=1-1 Aidan Turner http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2636108/ If you ever get a chance, watch Turner in the brilliant BBC series "Desperate Romantics" It's not suitable for kids or the easily offended. You can get it on on dvd. The background is the pre-Raphaelite artists. He also stars in the silly but popular vampire series "Being Human" that is coming to the US soon, which should be avoided.
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OMG! Yes!! All of the Janet Evanovich books! They are hillarious!
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my bank statements... :-(
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The Bible
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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan. Just a setion of it about a girl who is psychic and ends up getting insttutionalized for it. She gets est and her hair goes curly from the shock. Her converstions with the dead are sometimes very funny.
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"Australia" by Bill Bryson. It probably helps to have some idea of what Australians are like, and it is a very British type of humour (although he's American or Canadian, I can't remember which). Along with the side-splitting humour there are some amazing facts. For example that in 1939 there was a heatwave in Victoria which was so intense the heads of mannequins in the stores melted. There's a ton of really interesting stuff and poignant comments about Aboriginal history and the situations Aborigines are in today.
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Yes it was called I have a bannana in imy asss and I cant seem to get it out. Really good book
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Revenge Techniques by George Hayduke.
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Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus
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Weirdoes Wineos and Defrocked Priest...Lundow Porch. I was in the public library when I read something that got a LOL. http://www.terrificspeakers.com/html/ludlow_porch.html
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