What else is dark and snarky and anti-authoritarian?
Vonnegut?
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Steph L. - May 23, 2012 12:36:52 pm PDT #18907 of 28359
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Amy - May 23, 2012 12:42:10 pm PDT #18908 of 28359
Because books.
Chuck Palahniuk?
DavidS - May 23, 2012 12:47:58 pm PDT #18909 of 28359
"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 28359
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 28359
Because books.
Oh, that's a good one, too.
erikaj - May 23, 2012 12:50:12 pm PDT #18912 of 28359
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 28359
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 28359
not your mom's socks.
Thirding Vonnegut. On the Road.
erikaj - May 23, 2012 4:01:56 pm PDT #18915 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!
Catcher in the Rye
chrismg - May 23, 2012 8:11:39 pm PDT #18916 of 28359
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
As Gaiman (basically) says in the introduction, there's a reason the title is plural.
Ugh Ugh Ugh. That is really foul. Foul enough that I regret ever recommending the story to anyone, and I think it's been permanently tainted for me.