What’s the funniest book you’ve read recently?
This is an easy question. This month I just so happened to read Bonk by Mary Roach. I didn’t expect it to be as funny as it was, but I certainly giggled my way through the book. I’m not sure why I didn’t realize that it would be funny, given its subject matter, but Mary Roach is a hilarious writer. Probably the second funniest would be First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria by Eve Brown-Waite. It wasn’t laugh-out-loud funny (books rarely are for me) but I was certainly amused. In a different month, I would have had a much more challenging time answering this question, because I don’t normally read laugh-out-loud funny books. Bonk is actually the funniest book I’ve read all year. Sometimes they are amusing, but rarely that amusing.
What about you? Do you read books that make you laugh?
Diary of a Madman – Gogol
Also, Candide by Voltaire was pretty funny.
Bonk? That title alone is hilarious! Here is my response.