Good suggestions.
I'm leaning towards Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, but I'll compile a list of possibilities.
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
Mal ,'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."
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."
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
chrismg - May 23, 2012 8:11:39 pm PDT #18916 of 28333
"...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.
§ ita § - May 24, 2012 4:56:49 am PDT #18917 of 28333
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What makes it feel like Violence Against Women as opposed to violence with female victims?
erikaj - May 24, 2012 6:39:59 am PDT #18918 of 28333
Always Anti-fascist!
Chris, I still read James Ellroy(Even though it makes me feel kinda dirty) so Neil Gaiman would have to rip out a hooker's beating heart and eat it, before I'd think "Argh...too sexist!" He doesn't, does he?