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Looking for something funny.
Fiction, Non-fiction i'm not worried.
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Posted : 29/03/2012 9:18 pm
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I don't read many books tbh. But the above had me hooked from the first to last page. Very funny in places with a few shocks thrown in too.


 
Posted : 29/03/2012 9:26 pm
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Wilt or The Throwback. by Tom Sharpe.


 
Posted : 29/03/2012 9:27 pm
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Got some tom sharpe. The girlfriend has banned me from reading it in bed as I keep her awake with laughing. ๐Ÿ˜†
Sweepy that one looks good, is it worth starting with the first one?


 
Posted : 29/03/2012 9:28 pm
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Bluebear is good, but not everyone gets it. Rumo is a better one to start with IMO, its a better story, and when you get into his humour you will enjoy Bluebear more.


 
Posted : 29/03/2012 9:32 pm
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Try a little Jasper Fforde.

Oddball, witty, clever, funny and more.

I suggest starting with The Eyre Affair, then working through the Thursdays. The Nursery Crime books are excellent, especially "The Big Over Easy", a really well written crime thriller.

Am now re-reading "Shades of Grey" - Clever stuff. A skewed look at what society [i]could[/i] be, after the [i]"Something that happened"[/i]


 
Posted : 29/03/2012 9:42 pm
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Didn't like curious incident one bit myself.

How about Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?


 
Posted : 29/03/2012 9:42 pm
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Ok will try rumo then, have ordered 'how I won the yellow jumper' aswell.
Any good biographies that are funny?


 
Posted : 29/03/2012 9:57 pm