"Gillkerson (sp) On War".
It's a picture book.
I like pictures.
 
 
edit: Sorry; missed the 'novel' part.

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UB makes a good point about humor being an individual thing. I never cared for the Three Stooges, but the Marx Brothers crack me up. An alien visiting earth would have trouble differentiating the two.
 
So with that caveat, I'll say that I am a fan of Terry Pratchett's novels. Not everybody to whom I've recommended them has appreciated their sly and bizarre humor. Start with The Color of Magic  or Going Postal (both of which have been made into movies, which, along with HogFather, didn't rise to the novels' quality).

Carl Hiaasen has written some delightfully funny crime novels with casts of extremely whacky characters.  For anyone wanting to check this author out, I'd suggest starting with Double Whammy, one of his earliest outings.

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Carl Hiaasen has written some delightfully funny crime novels with casts of extremely whacky characters.  For anyone wanting to check this author out, I'd suggest starting with Double Whammy, one of his earliest outings.

+1000 for Carl Hiaasen. He is also a master of the ridiculous. What's the one where a pit bull bites into the bad guy's arm, so he shoots it and ends up having to cut the body off because it's jaws are locked, and for the rest of the book he has a pit bull's severed head attached to his arm as he goes slowly mad from the spreading infection? Great stuff.

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Spike Milligan wrote a whole bunch of books about his war stories, and they are totally nuts and fun to read!
 

Oh yes Pedro, I have them all and regularly re-read them.
 
The film they made of Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is pretty good, but nowhere near as funny as the book.
 
 
 
 

A Confederacy Of Dunces is the first book I remember that made me laugh out loud:    
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces
 
 

Hiassen also had a woman thrown off a cruise ship by her husband and rescued by a bale of weed that floated her to a deserted florida key....after that is just gets whacky....
 
I was actually reading Hiassen while my wife was driving in the keys on Cardsound road and the character was also travelling on Cardsound road to dump a body or something.

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Hiassen also had a woman thrown off a cruise ship by her husband and rescued by a bale of weed that floated her to a deserted florida key....after that is just gets whacky....
 
I was actually reading Hiassen while my wife was driving in the keys on Cardsound road and the character was also travelling on Cardsound road to dump a body or something.

I heard Hiassen talk a couple of times at a local bookstore.  He's a totally charming and delightful fellow.  One of the things he stressed was that everytime he thinks up something fictional that's totally weird, he encounters something factual in the local news that's even weirder.  Working as a Florida journalist, as he did for many years, he's got a collection of true yet unbelievable stories that most folks would find amusing if they weren't so thoroughly grim.