Good Omens is the funniest book I’ve ever read. If I’d tried it after gallbladder surgery I might have literally perished.
But I have not come across a single book that could hold the faintest candle to it. It’s peak comedy for me.
The next closest I can recall is The Hitchhiker’s Guide series, and while they’re great, they’re orders of magnitude lower than GO for me.
So what books are so full of laughs that one might end up hospitalized either from hyperventilation, terminal hiccups or severe abdominal disruption?
Would prefer fiction, stand-alone or short series (I keep hearing Discworld, but I don’t want to start such an undertaking, and if I started it I would want to go whole hog). But if the answer is Discworld, it’s Discworld.
by FaceOfDay
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Hate to say it but I do think the answer is discworld 😂 But while they are connected they pretty much all stand on their own just fine so you can just read as many or as few as you want, it’s not necessary to read them all
Red dwarf is hilarious and one of my favourite books. If you liked hitch hikers guide you’ll probably like it
A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Moore
Anything by David Sedaris and he often narrates all his books so the audiobooks are just as good if not better
The hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared
Lamb by Christopher Moore
Edit: I see someone else already recommended this, so I second that recommendation
The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
Wake Up, Sir! By Jonathan Ames trust me
A walk in the woods- Bill Bryson