Which is the funniest book of all time in your opinion?
It might be Decline and Fall, Scoop or A Handful of Dust but it might be this unjustly obscure (and oddly modern) masterpiece by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson.
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If short stories or essay compilations are allowed, let the short Jeeves and Woosters fight it out with Robert Benchley. If it has to be a novel: A Confederacy of Dunces. Matthew Coniam
ReplyDeleteI have not got far with Confederacy. If short stories are allowed it has to be this one. http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/british/6/greene/accident.htm
DeleteI have tried a score of times but I do not like Wodehouse much except for his non fiction which makes me laugh aloud.
DeleteDead Souls. I love Waugh's novels deeply, but at his peak Gogol was in another league entirely
ReplyDeleteI looked at Dead Souls last night in the shop and reflected that aged 12 I thought Taras Bulba the best book of all time but never tried Dead Souls.
DeleteLove AN Wilson and think Noel Coward as an author is vastly under-rated but probably THE funniest belongs to Love in a Cold Climate. Jane Woolley
ReplyDeleteI couldn't like LIACC. I loved Coward when 13 but now not very much. AN Wilson is fun - not sure he will live. I like much more Angus Wilson's short stories. Barchester Towers is funny and Jane Austen much more so.
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ReplyDeleteAnd Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doesn't even make it on the list to compete? It's much more political satire than Gibbon and his wacky Romans ever were. Dan Teodor