Do you ever wish a book would anthropomophize so that it could become your BFF/lover? I knew that I was totally gone on this book when I read the following passage:
There is this myth that if you're a woman traveling alone people will instantly want to kill you. This is an example of where you shouldn't listen to anybody. So much of the way we live and the decisions we make in this world are based on fear. It's amazing.
Sure bad things happen. They always have.
Someone once wrote something about one person being cool, but many people are assholes. And that's the truth. A lot of times getting an asshole one-on-one is better than a group of people you love carrying ice cream.
(ICE CREAM = TORCHES)
And check it out - I highly doubt you'll find a traveler pumping you full of psycho-killer fear. No. Only people who stay at home and watch too much TV will pump you full of that shit. How do they know? Look at their doors: they probably have fifteen deadbolts and an alarm system to protect their rhinestone-horse sweatshirts.
Ahhhh! How good is that?! Speaking the truth! Inspiring independence! Referencing sparkly horse attire! I love it so hard!
Flaming Iguanas is the story of Tomato Rodriguez's cross country motorcycle trip, illustrated with pictures of nuns, clams, angry dentists and anything else that took the author's fancy. Tomato is funny and sweet and not so intimidatingly tough that you can't empathize with her.
I am personally much more likely to relate with a biker who's afraid to drive over 40 mph and has to sing Bruce Springsteen songs to calm herself down.
What's your favorite book that no one else seems to know about?
Sure bad things happen. They always have.
Someone once wrote something about one person being cool, but many people are assholes. And that's the truth. A lot of times getting an asshole one-on-one is better than a group of people you love carrying ice cream.
(ICE CREAM = TORCHES)
And check it out - I highly doubt you'll find a traveler pumping you full of psycho-killer fear. No. Only people who stay at home and watch too much TV will pump you full of that shit. How do they know? Look at their doors: they probably have fifteen deadbolts and an alarm system to protect their rhinestone-horse sweatshirts.
Ahhhh! How good is that?! Speaking the truth! Inspiring independence! Referencing sparkly horse attire! I love it so hard!
Flaming Iguanas is the story of Tomato Rodriguez's cross country motorcycle trip, illustrated with pictures of nuns, clams, angry dentists and anything else that took the author's fancy. Tomato is funny and sweet and not so intimidatingly tough that you can't empathize with her.
I am personally much more likely to relate with a biker who's afraid to drive over 40 mph and has to sing Bruce Springsteen songs to calm herself down.
What's your favorite book that no one else seems to know about?
6 comments:
"The Boys of My Youth" by Jo Ann Beard and "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl. Two of my absolute, ultimate, all-time favorites.
I don't know if I can say nobody knows them, but since I have repeatedly found them languishing on the discount pile at Borders too many times to count, I can definitely say that not ENOUGH people know about them!
Apparently I need to go get this book, it sounds hilarious.
Also the book I adore that nobody seems to have ever read is Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. It is totally hilarious and they made a surprisingly good movie of it with a spectacular cast and Kate Beckinsale as the lead back when she still did BBC stuff and not vampire stuff.
"Everything You Need" by A.L. Kennedy. It's haunting and creepy at times, but mind-blowingly well-written. It's about a girl who goes to live on a writers commune off the coast of Wales and all the wackjobs that she meets there.
ahh what a fantastic quote!
unfortunately, most of the books i read tend to be super wellknown...i dont really delve deeply in that aspect of life!
Ahh that book sounds great! I'll have to check it out.
I really love How We Are Hungry, a fantastic book of short stories by Dave Eggers. Eggers is pretty famous, but HWAH is probably his least-known book (and my favorite).
My sister lent this book to me a million years ago and I remember laughing out loud reading it. I'm so glad you posted about it--I'll have to ask her if she still has it.
& for Anne, I loved Cold Comfort Farm! I still have it somewhere.
A book I'd anthropomorphize? White Boy Shuffle. Hands down.
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