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Is there an author that writes like this? I would like to read an entire book of this.
A few pages later
Terry Pratchett — The Wee Free Men
Terry Pratchett — Guards Guards
I think Douglas Adams might fit even better though.
Douglas Adams — The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I love Douglas Adams and HHGttG probably did more to inform my politics than any other single source, and it feels completely relevant today. If anything, Adams wasn't cynical enough when writing Zaphod.
Christopher Moore as well! Let me go find some snippets.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Noir
Fluke: or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Bloodsucking Fiends
Depending on what specifically appeals to you, you'd probably like Literary nonsense aithors or Absurdist fiction authors.
The first one instantly made me think of Douglas Adams
I can see the similarity but IMO this isn't that close to Douglas Adams.
Edit: did DA make a lot of puns and wordplay? Specifically taking well-known phrases but using their literal interpretation?
something like these, perhaps? There are probably better examples, I just skimmed through the first couple chapters of Hitchiker's Guide to the galaxy
Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker's guide, there's:
“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”
“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
“You ask a glass of water.”
Which does fit, even if it's not necessarily a "well-known phrase"
I'll take it, and I stand corrected.
Terry Pratchett Discworld books? From memory the ones about witches at least had a good bit of it.
Check out Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice series.
For a long while you're not actually sure what species the characters are, what their defining features are, if they even have gender, and/or how many limbs they have.
You just know what they're like from their cutting remarks to one another.
It's a series that focuses solely on plot and has a very loose definition of identity (and it's awesome)