# Books that make you laugh **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911 "2007-02-20T02:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911/101 "2007-03-02T00:48:40Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] The Summoning series by Tanya Huff ( “Never tell Egyptian gods they remind you of cartoon characters.” ) [/QUOTE] Tanya Huff has a new book out in paperback. The Blood Books, Volume Three includes Blood Debt and Blood Bank. Blood Bank is actually a collection of short stories. The last, “So This is Christmas.” written just for the paperback, is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long, long time. [spoiler]The fabric she’d tossed aside [Ghost of Christmas Future] stood beside her now, a hint of features under the drape. “Well, nice to see the Nazgul are getting work.”[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911/102 "2007-03-02T01:09:34Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] See Pratchett, All. [/QUOTE] This man has the right of it. ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911/103 "2007-03-02T03:37:47Z")
It’s more of a novella, but Steve Martin’s **Shopgirl** got quite a few laughs out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911/104 "2007-03-02T14:42:42Z")
[QUOTE=Will Repair] Tanya Huff has a new book out in paperback. The Blood Books, Volume Three includes Blood Debt and Blood Bank. Blood Bank is actually a collection of short stories. The last, “So This is Christmas.” written just for the paperback, is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long, long time. [/QUOTE] I love Tanya Huff. Have you read the series that she spun off of the Blood books, starting with **Smoke and Shadows**? Those are more light-hearted than the Blood books, and very funny. Her Keeper series and Valor series are also good, and funny. There’s a new Valor book due in June. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911/105 "2007-03-02T15:44:43Z")
Have any of you read any of John Swartzwelder’s novels? According to the guys doing the commentary on the Simpsons DVDs, they have the same kind of humor as Swartzwelder’s writing for The Simpsons. I’m tempted to order one from Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911/106 "2007-03-02T15:46:22Z")
[QUOTE=Crawlspace] It’s more of a novella, but Steve Martin’s **Shopgirl** got quite a few laughs out of me. [/QUOTE] Wow. That movie was so unfunny (and great, by the way) that I can’t imagine the book being funny. Not that book-to-movie translation is usually an accurate thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-make-you-laugh/392911.md?page=5)