Watchmen - possibly the greatest graphic novel ever and I thought it was better than V for Vendetta (though the movie version was orgasmic)

Any actually good humour books out there? The only really funny book I've read is Catch-22

I was just about to recommend Catch-22 on seeing your question.

Definitely Terry Pratchett.  Pick a Discworld book at random; it's hard to go wrong.

Douglas Adams's Hitch-Hiker's Guide books are great, as is his less-well-known Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.  The problem with that book is that the humour is a bit too clever sometimes- I don't know anything about Kubla Kahn, or Coleridge in general, so a huge chunk of the story made no sense to me at all for years, until I discovered Wikipedia.

There's the Red Dwarf books as well, written by Rob Grant and/or Doug Naylor.  I'm a fan of the TV series, but the books are better.

And since this is PWOT, there's probably something in the Conditions Of Use stipulating that I have to mention John Dies At The End as well.

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life.

Yes, it is as good as everybody says. And I originally intended to get the other three volumes for christmas, but now I doubt I can wait that long...


And the idea of hiring Edgar Wright to adapt the comic into a movie makes so much sense now, given its peculiar sense of humor.

The Adventures of the Pisco Kid, by Michael Standaert.

Let me tell you, that was one wild ride. Doesn't seem to have gotten as much attention as it deserves, considering it's satirical quality. Found this review at Amazon though haven't seen any others. Anyone else read this book?

From Publishers Weekly
Standaert's unconventional first novel follows Pisco, a disillusioned rodent exterminator and taxidermy enthusiast. The main thrust of Pisco's life is spent killing bats and rats, attempting to coexist with a ragtag assembly of neighbors and lamenting the tragic death of his apartment building's handyman Paul Putty. Pisco's unhinged, naturally suspicious mother (who calls him by his given name, "Moses") is a black Jamaican woman who adopted him; she and her much younger boyfriend, "Fly Boy," add little to his life of joyless annoyances, the zaniness of which is mind-bogglingly excessive: Pisco is bitten by a bat and develops rabies-like symptoms, he's fired then beaten down after vomiting on his boss' shoes, he wrestles emotionally with being an adoptee, then finds his friend Father John dead after a night of drinking and winds up in jail accused of murder (and is then rescued by a great flood)-all while corresponding with a gal named Sarah Ellen Roberts who may or may not be his niece. The author of Skipping Towards Armageddon: The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire (Soft Skull) and a blogger at the Huffington Post, Standaert targets the soulless options for 21st century living in this frenetic, bitterly funny paean to defeat.
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World War Z by Max Brooks. Holy shit. I was expecting a light, kinda funny novel. I wasn't expecting a gripping relentless and moving tale of humanity's war with the Zombies. This was great. All the little vingettes twisting around each other and showing the very beginnings of the outbreaks (with a stereotypical obscure origin) all the way up to the aftermath. Amazing stuff.

Also, Brooks does this awesome tightrope walk of mixing the hoprribly tragic and wrnching stuff with some lighter sequences, and some victories to balance the defeats. I don't know if I could have finished the novel without those lighter passages. That part in the asylum where the girl reenacts what happened to her group .. fuck.

And for obvious reasons, I love the part where the soldiers kill the zombies to the strain of Iron Maiden's The Trooper.

I just finished John Dies at the End. Freaking awesome.

The Dark Tower series takes a while to get into.  The whole first book I found kind of dull.  It really picks up after that though.  Take a break between books to read Salem's Lot and The Stand, which tie in pretty closely with the series.  Short story collection Everything's Eventual has two Dark Tower related stories in it as well- the title story and The Little Sisters of Eluria.  None of that's required reading, but it fleshes out the universe a bit more.

Also, don't expect all the loose ends to be tied up.  I was expecting a few more sections about Roland's backstory after Wizard and Glass, but there never were any.  It's a great series overall, though.

Dispatches by Michael Herr. Great book about his experiences in Vietnam.

Hoping to read Philip Caputo's Rumour of War for a account by some one who took part in the fighting as opposed to Herr, who was a reporter.

If you're still after good humour books, Incompetence and Fat by Rob Grant are both masterpieces.  I want to be Rob Grant's slave.

Huh, I just finished reading Incompetence and rushed in here to post about it, but apparently you beat me to it.  One of the funniest books I've read in a long time.  I was almost crying with laughter at some points.

The bit where he buys a ticket and catches a train sticks out, but seriously, the whole thing is pretty much non-stop hilarity.  I can't recommend it strongly enough.