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Joined: 6/7/2013
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Novel, not memoir! 
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Joined: 4/28/2014
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I'd have to say the funniest novel I've read is, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. It's filled with plenty of quirky characters that land plenty of laughs and chuckles. Sometimes it will just have you scratching your head.
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Joined: 9/9/2013
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Homeland, by Sam Lipsyte is probably the funniest novel I've ever read.
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Joined: 10/7/2013
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I can't think of a novel, but I've read a collection of essays by David Sedaris, "Me Talk Pretty One Day", that made me laugh out loud.
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Joined: 6/7/2013
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@Theresa--David Sedaris is the best. I think ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY was the first book I ever read where I was literally crying from laughing. Also, there is an essay in that one that does actually make me cry, too--"The Youth in Asia," the one about having to put his cat down. So many feels.
I distinctly remember shopping for a new Sedaris book at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in the summer of 2002, and was surprised to find him shelved in the fiction section. When I asked the bookseller about it, he just raised his eyebrows at me.
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Joined: 9/12/2015
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Marlin55 wrote:"I'd have to say the funniest novel I've read is, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. It's filled with plenty of quirky characters that land plenty of laughs and chuckles. Sometimes it will just have you scratching your head."
I agree. It is rare to find a book funny enough to make you laugh out loud, but Confederacy of Dunces does just that. Sad to think of the fate of the author, however. To think he was unable to find a publisher for such a great book. Had his mother not been so determined after his death to see it published, we'd never know of it.
--edited by Steve Merrill on 9/19/2015, 4:00 PM--
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