- Photographing Fairies by Steve Szilagyi
- Henry Miller's Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, Plexus, Nexus)
- Lolita and Pale Fire, Nabokov
- Jude the Obscure and The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
- "Morpho Eugenia" (novella) from A.S. Byatt's Angels and Insects
- She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
- The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
- The Snarkout Boys and the Avacado of Death by Daniel Pinkwater
- Lizard Music by Daniel Pinkwater
- The Quantity Theory of Insanity (short stories) by Will Self
- Running Wild by J.G. Ballard
- A Simple Passion by Annie Ernoux
- anything by Roald Dahl
- anything by Zilpha Keatley Snyder or E.L. Konigsburg, esp. Father's Arcane Daughter (I suspect they're the same person, but haven't been able to prove it yet)
- Shampoo Planet and Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
- A Perfect Vacuum (imaginary book reviews) by Stanislav Lem
- Mermaids by Patty Dann
- The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky
- You'll only get me this to admit this once: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Favourite Canadian Novel: Tie between Girlfriend in a Coma and The Robber Bride
Favourite Jack Kerouac novel: The Town and the City
Favourite J.D. Salinger story: Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters!
4 comments:
As a kid I liked "Starring Sally J. Friedman as Herself" and "The Great Escape or The Sewer Story". The first one was almost like the Diary of Anne Frank. The second was a children's book about alligators who escape New York dressed as people, hijack a plane, and parachute over the Florida Everglades. :)
I think I read Sally J. Friedman. I totally have to read that alligator story - it sounds 70% better than most of the adult fiction I've read lately.
Hmm. Doesn't sound familiar, but I'll bet I could find it with a little work.
Barb: It looks like Hugh found your book - there's an alligator named Silas in "The Great Escape or The Sewer Story" by Peter J. Lippman. I'll post a pic of the cover.
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