Genre :: Comedy (10 books)

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  #72

  Finnegans Wake

  by James Joyce

  (4 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

  

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  #136

  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  (4 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on..."

  

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  #152

  Life

  by Georges Perec

  (3 Reviews)

  130 Points

  " PreambleTo begin with, the art of jigsaw puzzles seems of little substance....PART ONE, CHAPTER ONEYes, it could begin this way, right here, just like that, in a rather slow and ponderous way, in..."

  

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  #243

  The Code of the Woosters

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  (5 Reviews)

  86 Points

  "I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves."

  

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  #309

  Cold Comfort Farm

  by Stella Gibbons

  (5 Reviews)

  70 Points

  "The education bestowed upon Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of influenza or..."

  

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  #316

  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  by Neil Gaiman

  (9 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "It was a nice day."

  

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  #317

  Three Men in a Boat

  by Jerome K. Jerome

  (7 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "There were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency."

  

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  #332

  The Diary of a Nobody

  by George Grossmith

  (3 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "My dear wife Carrie and I have just been a week in our new house, "The Laurels," Brickfield Terrace, Holloway -- a nice six-roomed residence, not counting basement, with a front breakfast-parlour."

  

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  #454

  Mort

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  36 Points

  "This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for ever living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past."

  

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  #466

  Guards! Guards!

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  32 Points

  "This is where the dragons went."

  

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