A very entertaining laugh riot! I don't know if Fielding invented the form but he certainly mastered it. The story and the circumstances are all very funny, of course, but the author's interjections really make the book a masterpiece. Some are quite simple ("let us now return to the wretched scoundrel we have the misfortune to have made our hero") to some quite sublime observations of the human condition to just remarks about the book itself. Superb!

(btw, if you've seen any of the movies don't use them as an excuse to not read the book. I've seen two and, while fun, neither is a suitable substitute for the work itself. Sure they were funny, but nowhere hear as funny as Fielding in the raw!)