It sometimes comes across that literature is a serious business. I don’t know why it has that particular label when there are such wonderful funny writers out there.
My personal faves (being the ones I’ve actually read) include: Terry Prachett (whose Discworld series turned me on to reading (is that what teachers call it?)), Robert Rankin (though I’ve not read anything my him since The Sprout Mask Replica (has it really been 10 years?)), Joe R Lansdale (though I’ve only had a few chances with his Hap Collins suspense novels – the rest aren’t so funny from what I can find – still a writer I want to read more of), and then I’m a little stumped from my own reading history.
Oh there is Mark Gatiss’s The Vesuvius Club though that isn’t laugh outloud funny unlike Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Philips, which I’m about halfway through. And boy am I enjoying it!
Speaking of funny I do have a couple of humorous novels waiting on the shelves. Sam recommended The Diary of a Nobody so I’ve got that. Matt bought me The Princess Pride for Christmas or was it my birthday? And I got The Eyre Affair from Readitswapit.co.uk. And then I’m stumped are there other humorous novelists that I really should be checking out?
Edit: I meant to say that the other reason funny books where on my mind, apart from GBB, is that the one and only Julian Clary has his debut novel out called Murder Most Fab with a bright pink cover and looks like a laugh.
All this has made me think of funny people who write novels and one I’d make you read if I could would be Flying Under Bridges by Sandi Toksvig.
But that’s my limit on comedians who are also novelists.
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