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theboattimes posted an update in the group Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months ago

I just started reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and I’m already more than halfway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius because I just really like it. There’s like, a stream of amusingly neurotic jibber jabbering that lasts for what seems like a really long time, because a lot has happened in the book, but has rea…[Read more]

Riese replied 12 years, 5 months ago

i remember when this book came out and my friend jake was like “marie you have to read this book, the narrator’s parents die and he auditions for The Real World” and I was like SOLD! and then i read it and it was so good and then my brother read it and it was so good and then it became a thing and everybody read it which is good because it’s SO GOOD
- theboattimes replied 12 years, 5 months ago
  
  I love how he gets you to join in on him making fun of himself, and then breaks your heart and blows your mind, and then does all of that all over again. I feel like I’m gushing. I also feel like my brother would like it too, and I should go proselytize it and turn it into a thing with all my people.
  - Riese replied 12 years, 5 months ago
    
    YES
Curlew replied 12 years, 5 months ago

I loved this book too
Rachel replied 12 years, 4 months ago

i know this book is good because i didn’t want to like it at all (straight self-involved white guy who talks about himself a lot) but i couldn’t help it.

Riese replied 12 years, 5 months ago

a blog reader back in the day kept trying to make me read “this book will save your life” because i really like AM Holmes and have read most of her other books, but i just couldn’t get into it to save my life (HAHAHA!) but then i modeled through it and slowly my opinion changed and by the end i just loved the fuck out of it.
- Fiona replied 12 years, 5 months ago
  
  I am struggling with This Book Will Save Your Life, despite my usual love of AM Homes. Thank you, you have inspired me to dust it off again :)
  - Riese replied 12 years, 5 months ago
    
    yeah at the start i think my feeling was like ‘oh great another bleak middle-aged rich guy crisis story’, like rick moody/brett easton ellis/etc, but the plot actually gets more interesting as you go on. you just have to get there. let me know how it goes!
    - mon replied 12 years, 5 months ago
      
      i definitely had that feeling at the beginning as well, but it’s starting to get good

Krissy replied 12 years, 5 months ago

sounds awesome, i will def check it out!
Emma replied 12 years, 5 months ago

Devil in the White City was so good! I didn’t realize he had written another book, I am so happy about that news. Thank you!

Ryan replied 12 years, 5 months ago

The Corrections was amazing. Freedom is definitely on my to-read list, but I’m waiting until it comes out on paperback because that fucker is long. You’ll earn so many Tootsie Pops by the time you’re finished.
alicia replied 12 years, 5 months ago

i just finished reading this. it is amazing. in the same raw complicated characters way that the corrections was, well worth reading.
Riese replied 12 years, 5 months ago

I LOVE THE CORRECTIONS AND I LOVE FREEDOM
Curlew replied 12 years, 4 months ago

Okay, I get ALL the tootsie pops, I finished. I liked it a lot but it was somehow not as satisfying overall as The Corrections.
I know that not everything in life is about teh gayness… but I loved the way he did the lesbian subplot in Corrections, and I was disappointed by all the little moments in Freedom where some character or other was…[Read more]

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