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 should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
Angel ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
DavidS - May 23, 2012 12:34:44 pm PDT #18906 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - May 23, 2012 12:36:52 pm PDT #18907 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
What else is dark and snarky and anti-authoritarian?
Vonnegut?
Amy - May 23, 2012 12:42:10 pm PDT #18908 of 28333
Because books.
Chuck Palahniuk?
DavidS - May 23, 2012 12:47:58 pm PDT #18909 of 28333
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Good suggestions.
I'm leaning towards Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, but I'll compile a list of possibilities.
JZ - May 23, 2012 12:49:18 pm PDT #18910 of 28333
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
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)
Amy - May 23, 2012 12:49:39 pm PDT #18911 of 28333
Because books.
Oh, that's a good one, too.
erikaj - May 23, 2012 12:50:12 pm PDT #18912 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
Elmore Leonard. You know I'd go there, though. Carl Hiassen Geek Love was good, though.
Kate P. - May 23, 2012 2:27:15 pm PDT #18913 of 28333
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Catch-22, and I second the Vonnegut rec too.
hippocampus - May 23, 2012 2:54:21 pm PDT #18914 of 28333
not your mom's socks.
Thirding Vonnegut. On the Road.
erikaj - May 23, 2012 4:01:56 pm PDT #18915 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
Catcher in the Rye