![]() Books that will have you laughing with and cheering on characters you’d probably be caught dead with in real life. Point is, there’s often a fine line between humorous and heinous, laughable and lurid, funny and frightening.įollowing are 15 novels that will grip you with their grit while you bust a gut. For instance, I found Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground to be a riot, and I nearly peed my pants perusing Kafka’s The Trial. I’d even laugh while reading dark fiction that wasn’t at all intended to be funny. ![]() Places like hospitals, funerals, public school cafeterias.Īfter I learned to read… correction… after I learned to like to read-which didn’t happen until after college-I found myself drawn to books brimming with grit, grime, and crooked grins. My love of both humor and illicit behavior started at a very young age, ignited by watching my two older brothers try to kill one another over the rights to whatever toy came in the box of Trix breakfast cereal my mother had just bought.Īs I grew up, I’d often find myself laughing in places that typically unsettle or disturb normal people.
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