Jitterbug Perfume is my favorite. And the one I read first.
Buffy: Synchronized slaying. Faith: New Olympic category?
'Conversations with Dead People'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
-t - Aug 21, 2005 3:32:22 pm PDT #8980 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
erikaj - Aug 21, 2005 3:33:27 pm PDT #8981 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
"Even Cowgirls get The Blues" cause it's my favorite. And when I was seventeen, the novel I loved best in all the world.
Fay - Aug 21, 2005 3:40:25 pm PDT #8982 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Plus, movie with Rain Phoenix. Who's hot.
I haven't read the book. The movie struck me as being a sort of Russ Meyer film with small breasts.
Daisy Jane - Aug 21, 2005 4:07:00 pm PDT #8983 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Still life With Woodpecker.
Alicia K - Aug 21, 2005 4:16:56 pm PDT #8984 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I can't read three books at once! ::insert winky thing here::
Seriously, though, thanks for the recs.
erikaj - Aug 21, 2005 5:26:51 pm PDT #8985 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
That movie wasn't very good to that book, Fay. But Rain is beautiful. Oh, "Still Life" is great too, though...I have sentimental reasons for preferring "Cowgirls" having seen myself in Sissy Hankshaw.
Jessica - Aug 21, 2005 5:50:23 pm PDT #8986 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I started with Jitterbug Perfume, but Still Life is also really good.
Emily - Aug 22, 2005 4:31:56 am PDT #8987 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I couldn't finish Jitterbug. I loved Woodpecker, though -- it's part of my senior thesis.
Kate P. - Aug 22, 2005 5:45:18 am PDT #8988 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Really, any of his early novels would do you fine. The three mentioned here are probably my favorites. I think I started with Woodpecker.
Volans - Aug 22, 2005 6:11:12 am PDT #8989 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I started with Still Life with Woodpecker and it remains my favorite.