I started with Jitterbug Perfume, but Still Life is also really good.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
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."
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
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.
Megan E. - Aug 22, 2005 7:34:02 am PDT #8990 of 10002
Kate P. - Aug 22, 2005 7:41:59 am PDT #8991 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Whoa.
Calli - Aug 22, 2005 7:48:09 am PDT #8992 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Maybe there should be a counter book, where the kids start a lemonade stand and their customers all die from the mercury in the water they used to make the lemonade. Then when they try to figure out where the mercury came from, a Bush Minion accuses them of disloyalty to Corporate American values, and sends them to Gitmo, sans trial.
erikaj - Aug 22, 2005 7:50:29 am PDT #8993 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
That's seriously fucked up. And unfunny. No wonder we dominate entertainment.
Polter-Cow - Aug 22, 2005 8:34:24 am PDT #8994 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Would you let your child read blatantly liberal stories with titles such as "King & King," "No, George, No," or "It's Just a Plant"?
Blatantly liberal? I'm so confused.
erikaj - Aug 22, 2005 8:40:27 am PDT #8995 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I think one is supposed to be a queer reference, one is supposed to be about the POTUS, and one is about (gasp!) ecology.