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Hi all!

 

I just finished Christopher Moore's "Island of the Sequined Love Nun", "Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" and "Practical Demonkeeping". I tried out "Coyote Blue" but found it doesn't have the same fast paced style as the other books and quit reading it half way.

I love the way the other books skip from character to character real fast and how in the end all the characters come together in forming the plot and ofcourse I love the humour and absurdistic style of the books.

 

So if you have any suggestions please tell me!

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Jasper Fforde. Initially give his Nursery Crimes Division books a go; 'The Big Over Easy' and 'The Fourth Bear'. If the style suits you, then you can make a move on his Thursday Next series of books; 'The Eyre Affair', 'Lost In A Good Book', 'The Well Of Lost Books', 'Something Rotten', and 'First Among Sequels'.

 

Tom Sharpe has written some funny books, although I'm not sure if they are what you are thinking of. Julian Rathbone is another that I found able to write about the historical absurd in a compelling way.

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I'll fourth Jasper Fforde, and point you in the direction of his predecessors in learned funnyness while I'm at it:

 

- Douglas Adams, [The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Trilogy of Five] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- Terry Pratchett, Discworld series (they can be read in pretty much any order; my personal favourites are Wyrd Sisters - a parody of Shakespearean tragedy; Maskerade - a parody of The Phantom of the Opera; and Soul Music - about Rock'n'Roll).

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Hi all!

 

I just finished Christopher Moore's "Island of the Sequined Love Nun", "Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" and "Practical Demonkeeping". I tried out "Coyote Blue" but found it doesn't have the same fast paced style as the other books and quit reading it half way.

I love the way the other books skip from character to character real fast and how in the end all the characters come together in forming the plot and ofcourse I love the humour and absurdistic style of the books.

 

So if you have any suggestions please tell me!

 

oh... that's great

 

At times when I'm stressed out, I do like to read books that are full of humour, in fact some fast paced books.

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Erlend Loe's books are absurd and easy and most of them are fun.

 

Same goes for Douglas Coupland, especially All families are psychotic, it's easy to read, fast paced, definitely absurd and funny.

 

I think I have to find some of Jasper Fforde's book myself now :)

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