You might consider books written with meme-like humor. Two that come to mind are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams) and The Princess Bride (by William Goldman). Both of those books are relatively short novels, so they should go down easy.

Repulsed by vocabulary, but writes a wall of text.

I've never read anything so fucking inane.

Terry Pratchett disc world books are very funny and full of easy to understand jokes.

"repelled by the intense use of vocabulary"

"this kind of expression could very well be possible to implement in a book in a textual medium while retaining the same amount of engagement and creativity."

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Books and meme humour feel like a very anachronistic combination

You might like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

I don't know where you live but the Brooklyn public library has a free service where you can ask something like this, and a human librarian will try to find books for you: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/bookmatch

Have you tried graphic novels? Comic books get a bad rap, but there is dialog and pictures that help you get into the story. Maybe that would help?

Terry Pratchett.

The Discworld books can wrap a particle physics pun in a fart joke. The cheeky cleverness that Patchett writes with, along with the keen eye for making fun of the absurdity of human existence, could be right up your alley. Start with "Guards, Guards!", or whichever one you spot on your local second hand bookstore- they are pretty much all able to be read standalone.

Seriously. Pratchett will scratch your itch.

Only because I haven't seen anyone else say it, but Ready Player One is kinda what you're talking about and pretty accessible.

I haven’t read them myself, but I understand that “Gideon the Ninth” and its sequels are heavy on meme humor. Some reviewers love them for that, others hate them for that, but they all seem to agree that it’s there.

It's only technically a book, but I'm still going to recommend Homestuck. It's one of the most "made for the internet" stories out there when that's what you're looking for.

https://bambosh.dev/unofficial-homestuck-collection/ is recommended since flash died.

Have you considered graphic novels or manga?

Go to a book store. In my experience it is way easier to find book there than with the whole catalog of amazon.

Have a look at the shelves with the gift ideas. Most books there are somewhat funny and are more a casual read.

If you want something funny, have a look at something from your favorite comedian or poetry slammer. They often write similar format like they do on stage. Short, condensed and on point.

Pick up a few books, read the better bart of the first page, run through the pages and read another one in the middle. See if you like the style or try with the next one.

John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin. It's very colloquial

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for - http://hyperboleandahalfbook.blogspot.com/

I also recommend Calvin and Hobbes.

I think you should try Christopher Moore. Suggested starting point: Lamb.

Here's how it starts: six year old Jesus and his little brother are playing a game where the brother kills a lizard with a rock, then Jesus puts it in his mouth to resurrect it.

His humor is irreverent, absurd, and constant. The stories are all grounded in the real world though, so you won't struggle to understand lore, settings, or language. Very easy to read.

This is a bit of a stretch, but Rule 34 by Charles Stross might be up your alley. It's a detective story where the first murder victim is a spammer killed by a sex toy, and it gets weirder from there.

Yes, that's the same Charles Stross who invented D&D's githyanki, by the way.

It sounds like you’re talking about Calvin and Hobbes to me. They’re amazing and full of funny quips, quotes, and jokes. They’re also super approachable, because they’re supposed to be the perspective of a six year old.

http://emojidick.com/

Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji.

Throwing out a vote for "Dungeon Crawler Carl "

Check out Off to be the Wizard by Scott Meyer. It's got a lot of nerdy humor to it. I wouldn't necessarily call it "meme humor" but it might have the feel that you're looking for.

I really enjoy He Who Fights with Monsters it's a lit-rpg with the main character being Australian with lots of off the wall references, mostly to 80's TV shows.

Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Handbook. Other people have heard of this right?

I'm really enjoying Hank Green's Carl novels, although I'd say they're somewhat less meme culture and more social media in general.

When you said meme humor, a couple of Brandon Sanderson (he's a fantasy author) examples came to mind.

(Very minor spoilers for some of his works follow, reader beware.)

There's a scene in one of his books where a young woman is talking with her magical spirit companion about doing something "inappropriate" with her new fiancé, and the most inappropriate thing her spirit companion - who is a logic-based abstract entity - can concieve of them getting up to together is dividing by zero. This happens in the Stormlight Archive series, which is several very weighty tomes of high fantasy.

One of his books, which is aimed toward more of a YA audience, is narrated by one of his recurring characters and is just extremely witty, frequently breaking the fourth wall of the story when he himself happens to show up in it as a character off in the background. There's one passage that I think is a great example of this, it happens when the main character is getting acquainted with all the members of a pirate ship she's stumbled onto, and they're talking about all the different crew:

I’m not going to ask you to remember them all. Mostly because I don’t remember them all. Therefore, for ease of both narrative and our collective sanity, I’m going to name only the more important members of the Crow’s Song. The rest, regardless of gender, I’ll call 'Doug.' You’d be surprised how common the name is across worlds. Oh, some spell it 'Dug' or 'Duhg,' but it’s always around. Regardless of local linguistics, parents eventually start naming their kids Doug. I once spent ten years on a planet where the only sapient life was a group of pancakelike beings that expressed themselves through flatulence. And I kid you not—one was named Doug. Though admittedly it had a very distinctive smell attached when the word was 'spoken.' 'Doug' is the naming equivalent to convergent evolution. And once it arrives, it stays. A linguistic Great Filter; a wakeup call. Once a society reaches peak Doug, it’s time for it to go sit in the corner and think about what it has done.

That one's called Tress of the Emerald Sea. Fantastic read.

Try books by Dril. Yes, the Twitter personality. I hear his newest book, The Get Rich and Become God Method, is his finest work so far.

It's part of a series called the DRIL Collection, though, so it may have quite a few of his tweets. The other books in the series are just his tweets collected in a book.

I also see he has a book called How to Cheat at Casino Games by Being a Bitch, and the sample pages are quite hilarious, so that could be up your alley as well.

...only problem is they're not available digitally, at least not on any storefront I can find.