Your favorite absurd books?

I would say that Catch-22 and Hitchhiker's Guide fall into this broad category. Still the best comedy novels of all time, IMHO.

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Hitchhiker's Guide

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I’ve read that about a decade ago and really enjoyed it. I’ll probably re-read it again soon.

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quote: Sirens of Titan My favorite Vonnegut.

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My first Vonnegut novel. I am looking forward to reading Cat’s Cradle soon.

Space Team and Critical Failures audiobooks

Books like Sirens of Titan and Catch-22, the ideas may be absurd but the writing itself is fairly conventional. I thought you meant something like this:

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The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was like 12,845 telephone booths in a row with high Victorian ceilings and all the doors taken off and all the backs of the booths knocked out.

Sometimes when I went fishing in there, I felt just like a telephone repairman, even though I did not look like one. I was only a kid covered with fishing tackle, but in some strange way by going in there and catching a few trout, I kept the telephone in service. I was an asset to society.

I waded about seventy-three telephone booths in. I caught two trout in a little hole that was like a wagon wheel. It was one of my favorite holes, and always good for a trout or two. I always like to think of that hole as a kind of pencil sharpener. I put my reflexes in and they came back out with a good point on them.

There was a bowl of goldfish next to the bed, next to the gun. How religious and intimate the goldfish and the gun looked together.

They had a good world going for them. He had such a soft voice and manner that he worked as a private nurse for rich mental patients. He made good money when he worked, but sometimes he was sick himself. He was kind of run-down. She was still working for the telephone company, but she wasn't doing that night work anymore.

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I enjoy Christopher Buckley.

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I’ve read that about a decade ago and really enjoyed it. I’ll probably re-read it again soon.

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If you haven't read the Dirk Gentley books, I can recommend them if you are a fan of Adams. He didn't write a ton, but what he did sticks with you.

Edward Whittemore
Sinai Tapestry (The Jerusalem Quartet Book 1)
Jerusalem Poker ( The Jerusalem Quartet Book 2)

On the last day of December 1921, three enigmatic men -- Cairo Martyr, a blue-eyed African who controls the Middle East's supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust; O'Sullivan Beare, a former Irish patriot and gunrunner who has made a fortune selling spurrious, phallic-shaped Christian artifacts; and Mark Szondi, a dedicated Zionist who wagers only fried fish futures -- sit down to a fateful game of poker in the back room of a Jerusalem antiquities shop owned by a 3000-year-old knight errant. The Great Jerusalem Poker Game as it came to be called, would last twelve years and had as its stake nothing less than control of Jerusalem itself...

A clockwork orange.

the rape of the lock