The thirty-first book: #31 Tom Jones - Henry Fielding
Comedy can be incredibly time dependent and things that seemed funny once can be bad when you read or watch it later on. On the other hand, some can be ahead of its time and only hit later.
Tom Jones appears to be the former. I can see the links to the stories in some other books read before, but there's little that connects as funny or makes for a good story. I guess I haven't read enough of the works this riffs on, while also having a plot that I never really got a hold on. All the way through, I couldn't get into it, and I more or less gave up after a while and tried to see what I could absorb. It's a pretty sad ending of it all, really.