I recently read The Year of the Hare (by Arto Paasilinna) and Slaughterhouse Five (by Kurt Vonnegut) after searching for recommendations on fictional novels that are funny or adventurous, that doesn't take itself *too* seriously. But those books felt like a collection of short stories disguising itself as a full book. Like MC would meet someone new, get into a new shenanigan, get done with it in a few pages, and thats it, next substory time. Which is not something I particularly enjoy
I am looking for something more similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams) or The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared (by Jonas Jonasson), where there is one proper overarching story rather than a collection of short substories, but the overarching story is wacky and frivilous and can go anywhere. That's not to say there can't be side tangent stories, just that yeah I don't vibe with it when the whole book is just separated short stories packaged into one book
by Lesbihun