At the bookstore, occasionally a customer will ask if I can recommend a funny book “one that will make me laugh.” My go-to is, at the moment, P. G. Wodehouse, but, at times, I also recommend Tim Dorsey, Gergory Maguire, Christopher Moore (none of whom I have read), or–of course–Douglas Adams (by whom I have read everything). One of my favorite Steinbeck novels is Cannery Row (or it’s sequel, Sweet Thursday), because they are comedies.
What would you recommend? Are there books that make you laugh?
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I would say “A Confederacy of Dunces” without reservation, but I have one reservation – and that is that I have handed this book to at least four friends over the last five years, all of whom have disliked it and found it horribly unamusing. Fortunately, they are wrong, and this is one of the best and funniest books of all time. So, please cancel my reservation.
I figured sooner or later somebody would say that.
I should read it sometime.