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Didn't like "HitchHikers Guide..."!!! It was recommended to me by numerous people, and it did nothing for me.
I think a lot of people read it as a teenager, and have a special fondness for it because of that.
I tip onto the nerdy side of the scale too: no Cosmo or Vogue in my magazine rack (substitute Science News and Design Engineer)
 
Lint said:
Didn't like "HitchHikers Guide..."!!! It was recommended to me by numerous people, and it did nothing for me.
I think a lot of people read it as a teenager, and have a special fondness for it because of that.
I tip onto the nerdy side of the scale too: no Cosmo or Vogue in my magazine rack (substitute Science News and Design Engineer)
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I read it as an adult - and also qualify as nerdy (substitute Chemical Engineering news for your Design Engineer) - and LOVED it. My husband also did not read it until an adult, and found it funny, as well.
 
I guess part of it is that my expectations were pretty high. The people who recommended it were people I generally "clicked" with.
 
Jeremy Leven: SATAN.
The devil undergoes psycho-analysis because he has this chip on his shoulder about God always getting all the credit.

Douglas Adams, anything. I read is all as an adult, too, without actually knowing very much about it or having particular expectations. I have re-read everything about 5 times - still think it's the bees' knees...

Stephen Fry: The Hippopotamus.
Indecently funny.

John Barth: The Sot-weed factor.
Has changed my perception of Isaac Newton, for one thing.
 
Billy Oblivion said:
Back on page 1 Tom Sharpe got a mention for Wilt but I'd reccomend any of his books. My first wife banned me from reading them in bed because the laughter was a bit disruptive to her sleep patterns.
David Nobbs: A Bit Of A DO, Reginald Perrin, Second To Last In The Sack Race. A wonderful, very british author.
And I recently read a biography of Anthony Burgess that made me laugh out loud but I suspect that that was just me.
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Following numerious Tom Sharpe advices in this thread, I read Wilt...

I do not understand why people here advise his books so warmly. Actually, I found his sence of humor rather "low". Well, if one laughs at every f**ck word, than it might be funny, but as I do not, I found it rather annoying. I am not an extremely moral, or moralizing person (if at all...) - but, it was a rather vulgar book - not really made me laugh.

So after being dissatisfied with Wilt, I re-read "Good Omens" (by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman), and my good sence of humor was restored.

Are all of Tom Sharpe books vulgar like Wilt or shall I give him one more chance?
 
Terry Pratchett's Discworld books always make me laugh out loud. As do Tom Sharpe's books (apologies to The waveguide).

The most recent laugh-out-loud book that I read, however, was Gore Vidal's Live from Golgotha, which prompted several loud guffaws.
 
lol

very few do,at least to the point of 'out loud'
however,a book i just recently read did so
i started a thread about it somewhere in here

the diceman

luke rhinehart
 
The Darwin Awards Omnibus - Wendy Northcutt

Combines three Darwin Awards books,
The Darwin Awards 2: Unnatural Selection
The Darwin Awards 3: Survival of the Fittest
The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design

These books are compilations of stories from the Darwin Awards site. Really funny accounts of indivduals who ensure the long-term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion.
 
Without reading all thirteen pages of postings, I would have to say:
A walk in the Woods *Bryson
Ex Libris *Fadiman
and many of Kurt Vonneguts books!
 
Books that make you laugh out loud

I will start this off

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger (saligner?)

Of course there are more but I am really drawing a blank here D:
 
Got another one

Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck, for a light easy read I really enjoyed this book.
 
And this will be my last post before someone else kicks in.

God Bless you Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut

More of a novella then a real novel I found it very humorous.
 
Some of the Stephanie Plum books
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In a Sunburnt Country (Bill Bryson)
 
Isabell said:
Some of the Stephanie Plum books
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In a Sunburnt Country (Bill Bryson)
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Definately the Stephanie Plum books... between Lula and Grandma Mazur, laughs are guaranteed.

I love Bill Bryson, but he's even funnier on audio.
 
Apart from a few Harry Potter scenes, I really laughed out loud when reading "Owen Meany" by John Irving and "Making History" by Stephen Fry.

The audio version of "Life of Pi" is not bad either.
 
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