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Holley:
- "Coin
Locker Babies"
by Ryu Murakawa
The blurb compares it to Fellini and Gunter Grass, David Bowie and Dostoyevski,
Garcia Marquez and Mike Lee's "Naked." I guess I can see all of that,
but it really sounds pretentious to put it that way. How annoying. Basically,
it's a postmodernist (whatever that means anymore, heh) Japanese book
about two babies left in coin lockers and how they went nuts in their
own personal, wigged-out way. Also starring is a model named Anemone
and her pet crocodile, who she converts a huge room into a swamp for.
Very confrontational and experimental. Not for the faint of heart. One
of my all-time favorites.
- "God Bless
You Mr. Rosewater"
by Kurt Vonnegut
Ah, ah, ah. Vonnegut. Whose picture I had framed in my living room,
propelling a less literate friend of mine to ask if that was my grandfather.
Uh, no. No. Anyhoo, Eliot Rosewater (who makes an appearance, along
with Kilgore Trout, in other books), is the heir to a massive fortune.
His other money-grubbing relatives are determined for Eliot not to have
it, and attempt to devise a plan to prove him insane, therefore defaulting
the fortune. Eliot appears to play right into their hands unwittingly
as he, in a realisation of conscience, adopts a town riddled with the
dregs of humanity and loves each and every one unconditionally, as members
of his own family. Loving the absolutely unlovable, and comforting the
inconsolable--who is insane? Eliot, or the rest of the world? An AMAZING
book. Will appeal to your NF sensibilities.
- "Bridge to
Terabithia"
by Kathryn Patterson
The young adult's book that isn't. Quiet and honest. Please read this.
- "Lives
of the Monster Dogs" by Kirsten Bakis
- "Pillars
of the Earth" by Ken Follett
- "The Dream
Songs" by John Berryman
Heartbreaking.
- "Transparent
Things" by Nabokov
His best, imho
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