Dana wrote: "I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl by Laurie Notaro. I had a bellyache from laughing so hard. Her books are hysterical. "

I just ordered this book so I am stoked to hear you loved it! Awesome!

Kat don't worry years ago I helped out on a library and we all heard
such funny things regarding books we spent half our time in the back
with tears coming down our face with laughter that we all felt v.
Guilty when we had to shush someone!

Some time ago I was in my local library, and picked up a book spoofing Facebook! I only meant to flick through it, but I ended up sitting there for over an hour reading it because it was so funny, and I'm certain that I must have annoyed several librarians with my chortling :)

I read in public most of the time that I am reading. My favorite are the little hiccup laughs because I try not to laugh loud, and there are always people who are surprised and look over when I do that. good times.

The Harmony Series by Phillip Gulley made me laugh out loud a lot. When I lent then to my mother inlaw to read she called me up and said she was laughing all the way through them too.
Jennifer Echols books make me do the giggle like a school girl while reading (in one part of a book she makes reference to being the flat chested girl in school ,which I could relate to, but it was when she referred to her breasts as "booblets" that I laughed so hard my son asked me what I was reading)

I tend to be an emotional person who laughs and cries at the drop of a hat so I might be reading that is only slightly funny and I'm cracking up, or it could be a not too sad moment yet I will find my self crying. Odd things affect me. its weird...and it's always awarkward trying to explain why a book is makeing me cry or laugh or scream in frustration when the main charicater is making bad mistakes. :)

I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl by Laurie Notaro. I had a bellyache from laughing so hard. Her books are hysterical.

I fid that its not necessaril laughing or crying i do I can talk at a book when the character is doing something stupid or embarrasing!!!!

The City of Bones series
The Georgia Nicholson series...actually, my sister and I were both reading the same book at the same time whilst sitting next to each other (but we each had our own book) and when one of us laughed the other would get insanely mad because we felt like it was giving something away. But then, we would just give each other really dirty looks, so everyone around us thought we were INSANE! Because all they saw were two girls fervently reading, one of us would crack up, the other would shoot dirty looks which would start a "if looks could kill" argument. No talking necessary. Thinking back, I totally understand why people around us left. At the time I thought THEY were the weird ones. Ah yes. Good times.

OMgoodness. While on vacation, this past August, I had brought David Sedaris' book When You Are Engulfed in Flames. I laughed so much. My funny & sad story relating to this book began one evening when I went to bed early to get in some quality David Sedaris time. I was vacationing with a friend, her two children and her extended family. It was a full cottage. Well, I was all snug in my room and was thoroughly entertained. As I had been reading I could hear people going through their getting ready for bed motions and retiring for the night. I was trying to keep my giggles and chuckles quietly muffled, so as to not disturb anyone.

Well, all good efforts...!!

I thought I was doing a good job not laughing too loudly. The next morning my dear friend asked me if I was okay. I told her I was great, but wondered why she was asking. She then told me she thought she heard me crying in my room the night before and she kept waiting to hear a big sniffle. Had there been a big sniffle, she would have come into see what was wrong. She had been worried all night about me. (I had recently lost my grandma and had been having a hard time with her being gone.) I felt so bad for causing worry.

Picking up the book later that day I just guffawed and let it out as loud as I could so it was clear I was laughing and not crying, although Sedaris has brought me to tears of laughter.

A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
Magical Thinking, by Augusten Burroughs
Janet Evanovich, the Stephanie Plum series
Talk to the Hand, by Lynne Truss ***
Dog on It, A Chet & Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn

*** the subtitle is: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. Lynne Truss also wrote Eats Shoots and Leaves

And MOST DEFINATELY Bill Bryson. The man is a genius. Even books you expect to be dry, as in the language history ones, are fantastically funny. I just want to share every second line with someone, and most of the time they want to know why I'm laughing anyway.

Oh, I love the Spellman books - definately LOL stuff. And I remember getting very strange looks when reading The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson, on a flight. Likewise Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty cracks me up, even on rereading for the 3rd time.

The Stephanie Plum series definitely has me busting a gut every time I read them. Another series that is probably even more hilarious is the Spellman series by Lisa Lutz. They include:

The Spellman Files
Curse of the Spellmans
Revenge of the Spellmans

I take a train to and from work and often have the problem of either laughing or crying on the train. Angela's Ashes stands out as one that was noticed by others. The one I laughed at the most was The Last Days of Summer, a wonderful coming-of-age novel.

Hope your Boss doesn't catch you.hee hee!

Lately the audio books by David Sedaris having me laughing in public. Its bad when I start cracking up at my desk!!

Glad to know its not just me then by the sounds of it! im reading a Jason Bourne book at the mo which is good but definately not a laugh out loud and now I have read all these posts I want to change books to something funnier!

Evanovich, Tim Dorsey, Carl Hiassen,....

Definitely Janet Evanovich books.

Kate wrote: "Im with DJ , I LOL so bad while reading P.S I love you. People on the train were giving me werid looks.
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I know,I think people thought I was having a breakdown!!
Worth it though.

Im with DJ , I LOL so bad while reading P.S I love you. People on the train were giving me werid looks.

How could I forget to mention Janet Evanovich! Lula and Grandma Mazur are so very funny. I love those books...they are the best for lightening your mood!

Haha, this happened to me just today. I was reading in the car rider line today while waiting to pick up my kids from school, and I was LOLing at One for the Money. The guy beside me kept giving me funny looks. lol

Best laughs I had while reading in public: Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome and All Creatures Great and Small (volume 1 and 2 especially), by James Herriott. I actually re-read them every time I feel the blues coming.

Yorky wrote: "What books has anyone read lately that has had them laughing out loud in public? Bill Bryson has this effect sometimes and so does Louise Rennison. I love seeing people on a bus or train laughing..."

Oh yes! Definitely Bill Bryson -- If you were born in the 1940s-60s (US) his The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid A Memoir probably sounds just like your own life... It is hysterical and made me laugh 'til I cried! Right now I am in the middle of his In a Sunburned Country (a travelogue of Australia) and find myself laughing out loud in every chapter. My husband doesn't like this kind of book and I made him read The Life and Times... I could hear him laughing every time he picked it up, too.

I am just finishing Everything Is Illuminated. I found Alex's narratives to be quite amusing in the beginning and laughed out loud several times.

Kingsley Amis is one of those writers who never fails to make me LOL. Lucky Jim, Ending Up, and The Green Man are all quite hilarious.

Hi just thought of a really great one which had me constantly laughing until I couldn`t breath"Couplehood"by Paul Reiser-it was so good I even lent it to friends and I don`t usually do that!!

Makes perfect sense but if it`s any help I found the book to be much better than the film!
Possibly not one to read in public though.

I have had that book on my to read shelf for sooo long but I have heard so much hype about it I dont want to read it in case im disappointed if that makes sense.

Had a terrible time with"P.S I Love You"I`d go from laughing to crying and back again in seconds!

What books has anyone read lately that has had them laughing out loud in public? Bill Bryson has this effect sometimes and so does Louise Rennison. I love seeing people on a bus or train laughing whilst reading but I always end up craning my neck as I have to know what they are reading! Does everyone else have books they just cant trust themselves to read in public?