"Moving Violations" by John Hockenberry is good. Exciting, since he went places most paraplegics can't. John Callahan's "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot"
I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.
Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Jan 19, 2012 7:57:33 am PST #17519 of 28332
Always Anti-fascist!
Steph L. - Jan 19, 2012 8:08:41 am PST #17520 of 28332
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The juxtaposition of the two posts above mine made me laugh and laugh.
Me, too. I honestly thought for a minute that sumi's post was a direct response.
Relatedly, I am going to have to buy American Gods for the BatKindle, because my paperback went walkabout many, many months ago.
meara - Jan 19, 2012 8:11:30 am PST #17521 of 28332
I didn't know you could ahem e-books - a sign of how out of it I am these days. From the usual suspects or e-book only places?
I was mostly getting them from friends (and for the most part things that I already had, or that I wouldn't otherwise buy--which is why I was ALSO spending too much at Amazon, and because it was soooo easy!). But I am pretty sure you can get them the usual places...but I have also never ahemed a TV show or movie, and haven't downloaded music illegally since Napster was big (iTunes is easy enough and legal enough and cheap enough that I don't feel any need) so I don't know the exact processes!
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2012 8:15:35 am PST #17522 of 28332
brillig
I try not to ahem anything from living authors. For somewhat-aheming of old stuff, the Australian version of Gutenberg has different public domain rules than the American version, but they are naturally geared towards the Australian audience.
JZ - Jan 19, 2012 9:18:07 am PST #17523 of 28332
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Seconding erika's vote for Callahan's autobiography. That is some bitterly funny shit.
Waist-High In The World, by Nancy Mairs, is also very good -- she's an extremely eloquent essayist who has lived with rapidly progressive MS that confined her to a wheelchair as a relatively young adult, and severe clinical depression all her life. The jolliest line in Waist-High is about 9000% less fun than the bitterest line in Callahan's book, but it's still very very good. She's just such a gifted, poetic and relentlessly, grindingly honest writer.
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2012 9:21:10 am PST #17524 of 28332
brillig
I'm following Mark Reads LotR and how he's not going to watch the movies till after he's read the books. I wonder if he'll be as pissed at how they changed Faramir as I was.
sumi - Jan 19, 2012 10:32:15 am PST #17525 of 28332
Art Crawl!!!
Valyrian steel says that you can pre-order their Beyond the Wall Survival Kit.
erikaj - Jan 19, 2012 10:32:53 am PST #17526 of 28332
Always Anti-fascist!
I have that one, too, JZ. More thoughtful than fun, but I do like it.
DebetEsse - Jan 19, 2012 10:34:20 am PST #17527 of 28332
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Alrighty, then, I'll go with the Callahan. That looks...different from what my classmates are reading (Someone is, in fact, reading Tuesdays With Morrie)
Atropa - Jan 19, 2012 10:38:17 am PST #17528 of 28332
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Anne Rice has a werewolf book coming out next month.
I don't know if I'll read it, but I am hoping she does a book tour and it comes to Seattle. Yes, I will go wait in line just so I can get her to autograph my 1st editions of Interview and Lestat. I own my cliches.