Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Need some help here, folks: Am I interpreting this totally the wrong way round or have I only just noticed the really nasty violence-against-women in Gaiman's "Murder Mysteries"?
As Gaiman (basically) says in the introduction, there's a reason the title is plural.
I need some book recs for a high school senior boy who loved Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson and Confederacy of Dunces.
What else is dark and snarky and anti-authoritarian?
What else is dark and snarky and anti-authoritarian?
Vonnegut?
Chuck Palahniuk?
Good suggestions.
I'm leaning towards Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, but I'll compile a list of possibilities.
Anything by Flannery O'Connor? (Granted, practicing Catholic and thus not exactly anti-authoritarian in a, well, catholic sense, but she does give the general stink-eye to human authority; the more one of her characters thinks s/he knows it all and has gamed the system, the more spectacular the cosmic bitchslap)
Oh, that's a good one, too.
Elmore Leonard. You know I'd go there, though. Carl Hiassen Geek Love was good, though.
Catch-22, and I second the Vonnegut rec too.
Thirding Vonnegut. On the Road.