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[NolanVoyd]

I just read a review of a book called "the unexpurgated code", by JP Donlevy, from 1975.

I hadn't heard of it. I guess it's funny.

It got me thinking about humorous books. What are your favorites?

I will nominate "A confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. That book was emberassing to read in a public place, it would get me laughing so hard sometimes, sitting by myself, that people would look at me like i was crazy.

Honorable mention to anything by Douglas Adam's.

Any suggestions.

 

[Loulit01]

Catch 22.
Portnoy's Complaint.

 

[NolanVoyd]

Catch 22.
Portnoy's Complaint.

I read Catch 22 maybe 30 years ago, I remember it being funny but not much else about it. May be time for acre read.

I haven't read the other.

 

[Loulit01]

I read Catch 22 maybe 30 years ago, I remember it being funny but not much else about it. May be time for acre read.

I haven't read the other.

Portnoy's Complaint is a novel by Phil Roth. He has an excellent reputation for works of literary merit.

Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation.[6] He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty.[7] Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo.
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He's worth trying if you've never read him.

He grew up in what was a Jewish neighborhood in Newark, NJ, less than a mile from where I lived in Hillside. I recognize many of the places he writes about.

 

[NolanVoyd]

Portnoy's Complaint is a novel by Phil Roth. He has an excellent reputation for works of literary merit.

Roth was one of the most honored American writers of his generation.[6] He received the National Book Critics Circle award for The Counterlife, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation Shylock, The Human Stain, and Everyman, a second National Book Award for Sabbath's Theater, and the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 2001, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize in Prague. In 2005, the Library of America began publishing his complete works, making him the second author so anthologized while still living, after Eudora Welty.[7] Harold Bloom named him one of the four greatest American novelists of his day, along with Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo.
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He's worth trying if you've never read him.

He grew up in what was a Jewish neighborhood in Newark, NJ, less than a mile from where I lived in Hillside. I recognize many of the places he writes about.

Sounds good.

I will give it a try.

 

[aociswundumho]

I will nominate "A confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole.

Me too, that was the funniest book I've ever read.