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What is the funniest book you’ve ever read? (lemmy.world)
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Or a few of the funniest if you just can't choose.

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[-] Audalin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Some candidates:

  • Calvino's The Non-Existent Knight;
  • Nabokov's Pale Fire;
  • Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor.

I don't know whether Finnegans Wake is funny (and I don't know whether I'll be able to know that after finishing it), but I certainly extract quite a bit of fun from reading it.

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