If you liked Terry Pratchett's Going Postal...
...why not try these two all-time classic comic novels while you’re waiting for the next Discworld to be published?...
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
A classic comedy caper: martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a boating holiday up the Thames in a skiff is just what’s required. But what lies ahead is a litany of troubles with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, cheese, swans and tins of pineapple chunks; not to mention the devastation left in the wake of J’s small fox-terrier Montmorency. Three Men in a Boat was an instant success when it appeared in 1889, and, with its benign escapism, authorial discursions and wonderful evocation of the late-Victorian ‘clerking classes’, it hilariously captured the spirit of its age. The humour is as fresh, funny and genuinely breathtaking today as it was when it was first published. Reading of it is best avoided in public.
Roughing It by Mark Twain
A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.
Humorous and informative, the book is chock-full of social commentary and Twain’s dry observations on everything from stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting.Informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich, he meets a colourful succession of individuals in the process, and endures a number of mishaps along the way, all told with typical relentless Twain good humour.
