Read anything good lately? Do you have an all time favorite book or a favorite author? Right now I'm reading Quitting the Nairobi Trio by Jim Knipfel, a memoir of mental illness(my favorite genre). It is actually more amusing than grim despite the subjet matter. My absolute most favoritest author is *David Sedaris*. That man slays me! I can't even begin to tell you how funny he is, so go pick up Naked or Me Talk Pretty One Day and be mindful not to wet yourself. Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was so good it almost lived up to its title. My favorite fiction authors are probably A.M. Homes (The End of Alice), Bret Easton Ellis (Less Than Zero, American Psycho), and Sandra Cisneros (House on Mango Street). What do you reccomend?

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

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This morning I've been reading one of my guilty pleasures, Diana: Her True Story. I've read this at least ten times since it was published, and I just never tire of it. I'm indefensible.

I've also been re-reading McSweeney's Issue 4 (thanks, Wing Chun!) lately, and certain chapters of the aforementioned Naked by David Sedaris.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I just read Naked and I'm currently trying to read Ethan Frome. My absolute fave of all time (for today) is Pride and Prejudice.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Yesterday I read Howard's End. Because I hadn't for some reason. Kid's books I read yesterday included Where the Wild things Are, Madeline, Madeline and the Bad Hat, Madeline and the Gypsies, The Baby Dances (by Kathy Henderson), and a hilarious little book called Guys From Space by Daniel Pinkwater (we bought this on a massive used book buying frenzy last Friday and have read it at least twice a day since).

Today I'm reading The Butterfly Chair by Marion Quednau and so far it's quite good. And Joe just ran in with an old golden book called Tootle which he would like me to read and which I will. but I hate Tootle, it's about a little train who has his own excentricities that are stomped out of him and he's made to get back on track and be the train everyone expects him to be. It was written in 1945.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I just finished Silent Running, a US Navy submarine officer's memoirs of his WWII service. Also read in the last month: A Confederacy of Dunces, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Stalingrad.

Currently reading: Omar Bradley's A Solider's Story. Yes, I do read a lot of military history. I'm also reading Anna Akhmatova's poems (she was a Russian poet), in translation, unfortunately, because I don't speak Russian well enough yet to read them in the original.

Gwen, if you haven't done so, you should read the rest of Jane Austen's books. P&P was my favorite when I was younger, and I still love it, but as I've aged, Persuasion has risen up my list.

All-time favorite books? Hmmmm. Lord of the Rings is high up there. All of Jane Austen. Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. Asimov's Foundation series. Dave Barry's books make me laugh out loud.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I have one chapter left in Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I wanted to finish it last night, but I'd be all depressed if I don't have at least one more fresh, unread David Sedaris fix tonight! It's funny, but I don't think anything will ever top Naked. Has anyone else read it? I swear parts of it were in Naked or Barrel Fever but I could be mistaken.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I read the three Harry Potter books on the planes to and from NZ last week, and they were the best thing I've read for a long time. Seriously, they're really well-written, funny, interesting stories. Check them out.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I read the middle Potter book and thought that it *was* quite good. Is the fourth one out yet? I checked at bookstores and demand for them is pretty high. The hardcovers are twenty dollars each (canadian funds) and while the paperbacks are cheaper, they look pretty flimsy. I can't afford to drop sixty bucks on them right now (the one I read was a lender). I'm thinking that I might check out the really good used book store right after Christmas this year and see what I can pick up for half.

I'm really wanting a hardcover set of the Narnia books for Joe too.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Gosh, this makes me sad, because I haven't been able to get to the library in *forever*. So all I've read lately are books my MIL gives me, which are usually autobiographies, which I'm just not into. But I'm desperate, so I read them. Lately, it was Angela's Ashes, which I enjoyed in spite of not liking the genre, and Falling Leaves, by Adeline Yen Mah, which was well written but totally depressing. I hate depressing books. The last book I actually chose for myself was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. He's supposed to be such a big deal in sci-fi right now, and I read a short story of his that I really liked, so I was excited about it. And it was good and clever, but I was somehow still disappointed, it didn't really live up to my expectations. Before that I read Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. It's considered such a children's classic, but I was disappointed with it too, the writing was really not all that great. It seems to me that the best children's books are those that can be enjoyed no matter what your age.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Speaking of libraries, I just wanted to remind y'all to be thankful if you have one that is halfway decent in your area. I was blessed with five libraries where I used to live (in a relatively small town) in Ohio, and here the libraries are shit-T. There are almost zero new books, and the ones they have are always unavailable. It makes me sad.

Thank God there's a cheap bookstore nearby, but still. I miss being able to sit around the library and read all the magazines I would never subscribe to, as well as have shelf after shelf of new publications ripe for the picking.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Saskatchewan, the 4th Harry Potter book is coming out on July 8. Bookstores all over the US are having huge parties for it. I've read the first three, and they *are* wonderful; I'm looking forward to Number 4.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I preordered the 4th Harry Potter today from Amazon - if you want these books cheap, Amazon is generally cheaper than other retail, particularly if you buy books with a friend and split the delivery charge.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

So that means that in a few weeks it's going to be eighty dollars I can't afford . . .

I do use my library. There's a couple of really good public ones in town plus two university libraries. I like libraries and I read books from there, but I'm a sucker for owning books. I read the books I have at least four or five times. And I find that unless I do read a book a zillion times, I don't really know it. That said, I'm on a pretty limited budget. I buy most of the books I have at used book stores, ask for them for Christmases and my birthday and shop at little indi stores for the new ones that I must have. Any other suggestions from the rest of you book-buying fiends?

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Sedaris' Naked, Christie's By the Pricking of my Thumbs (or something like that) and some mystery novel set in Atlanta called To Live & Die In Dixie which was fair, entertaining and somewhat accurate re: setting but not stellar (and one of the characters was based on the antiques dealer featured in Savannah's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--it was blatant and obvious). Re-read an Anne Rice and a Dean Koontz, and...well, it doesn't really matter which, does it?

If I want junk and entertainment ONLY, I read mystery novels. If I want to feel like my brain isn't turning to mush, I read 'new fiction'.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Being a journaller,I'm a sucker for the character Bridget Jones and that diary style of writing. I just finished the second one: Bridget Jones, The Edge of Reason. I liked it even better than the first one. I found a store at our new mall called Books a million or something like that and was thrilled to find that they had huge tables full of used library books, many of them hardcover, for as cheap as $1.00. I picked up quite a few. The one I'm reading now is called Exposure by Kathryn Harrison. I haven't decided yet whether or not I like it.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I just finished "The Einstein Papers" by Craig Dirgo, who co-authored a couple of "Dirk Pitt" novels with author Clive Cussler. If you've never read a Dirk Pitt novel, it's kinda like action/suspense/comedy/superhero stuff. "Einstein" was pretty good, all about some formula Einstein had figured out before he died that unleased tremendous power in the universe, but he took the forumla to his grave after Hiroshima. Somehow, the Chinese figure out the location of the secret papers and hope to obtain them and figure out the formula to use in a war against Taiwan. The main character in the book is some hunky, unattached, smart and funny dude who doesn't get too close to anyone and never fails at challenges thrown his way. Total fantasy, lovely escape. But certainly not the best book ever written. Sort of literature's version of fast food.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I just finished re-reading A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. I didn't like the ending any better, but this time around, I was really struck by the details.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I just finished Polly by Freya North. I don't think I liked it. Back to non fiction for me!

I also recently read One Day in September(about the 1972 Olympics; good but very upsetting) and Manchester, England (quite enjoyable; who knew the biggest branch of Boots is in Manchester?). I'm working on Discographies now; (sub)cultural theory and dance music, yum!

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

Tracy... I have read them all, except for the secret short stories or whatever. And I just put that one on my wish list so I'd remember to buy it later.

The only one I don't love to death is Northhanger Abbey, really.

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

If you go to Lineone and sign up for a free account (you can use a fake address, name, etc -- it doesn't matter), they email you a #5 gift certificate for Amazon.co.uk a couple of days after you open the account. You can check the account from any Internet connection, so you don't have to dial-up to them in order to get the GC.

In case you can't tell, I've done that a few times...

-- Anonymous, June 20, 2000

I work at a bookstore, aren't you all so jealous? (I'll never tell which one, though). It's good to know I share this forum with a bunch of bibliophiles and fans of David Sedaris. I love to listen to his books on tape after I've read them. And his sister, Amy Sedaris, reads with him on the Naked audiobook. She is the hilarious Jerri Blanke on Comedy Central's "Strangers with Candy." God, I love those two.

Bobbi, have you read Kathryn Harrison's memoir The Kiss? It's pretty mind boggling and disturbing, she had a very screwed up family life, to say the least. She has a new one out, too, a fiction piece called The Binding Chair. And for all you Harry Potter fans, all of his hardback titles are 40% off at your local Barnes & Noble. [Please excuse my lack of italics; I know better but I am lazy!]

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

Oh yeah, one more thing about Ms. Bridget Jones. Those books are so funny! But most of all they really make me feel like I have got my shit together. I mean, I'm single and in my mid-twenties and I'm as screwed up as anybody, if not more. But damn, that Bridget is a neurotic wreck. She's freaking out about stuff I got over years ago, like fretting over worthless men and counting calories. And she's supposed to be over 30, right? Poor fictitious Bridget needs to read Bust magazine or something.

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

yeah yeah back again. I just read Shiva's post on the vices thread where she mentions Lynda Barry and Cruddy. I can't believe I forgot Lynda Barry. Go read Cruddy right now! Read anything of hers. She has an amazing ear for dialogue and she remembers all the weird things you thought you forgot about from your own childhood. Although hopefully your childhood was not as screwed up as the girl in Cruddy, I know you will relate. Now go read it. Hurry!

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

Just finished "Life After God" by Douglas Coupland (good, quick read) and just started "World's Most Dangerous Places" by Robert Young Pelton. Ultra-smart-ass guy describes traveling in the world's less conventional destinations (Afghanistan, Sudan, Nicaragua, etc.). If you like adventure/travel books with a comic twist, anything by Tim Cahill is *perfect.* (I keep losing "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg" because people borrow it and then lend it to their friends). The first few novels by Carl Hiassen are hysterical, skip the new ones.

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

I love travel/adventure books. One of the funniest of any kind of book, is Gary Paulsen's Winterdance. It is his story of training for and then running the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. Hilarious.

I stumbled across a wonderful book a few years ago by Constance Hemericks called Down the Wild River North. The true story of a canoe trip undertaken by Constance and her two teenage daughters in the 1960's in a remote area of Canada. I too have lost this book via lending it to friends, and it is out of print. I have tried Powell's, Amazon, Border's and I don't know who all else :(

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

Yes, Lynda Barry's "Cruddy" is one of the best books I've read in a long time.

I also love David Sedaris, a whole bunch. I have yet to get "Me Talk Pretty...", but I was absolutely slain by "Naked" and "Barrel Fever". I want Mr. Sedaris to be the house band in my bedroom.

I just also read this AWESOME book called "Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt" by Tristan Egolf. It was beyond description, so great. Imagine Mark Twain if he lived like Hunter S. Thomson and had really bad hemorroids and a massive hate-on for the world.

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

So yesterday I gave up on the Butterfly Chair because it has two beginnings. More on that later. Then I read Susan Musgrave's Musgrave's Landing which was a fun collection of her newspaper columns about being a poet and writing in general. She works in funny quotes quite well and I laughed out loud a couple of times. Joe also made me read four Dr. Suess books (in a row!), that stupid Tootles the facist train book, The Hockey Sweater, and a really charming picture book that's an illustration of e.e. cumming's "hist whist". I used to not think about the kid's books I was reading as part of my 'real' reading, but I find that there's a similar influence on my days.

I'm going back to reading The Butterfly Chair. It's not a bad book, it's just that I have trouble getting into books. I'm difficult to pull out of my life and into text without a struggle. I find that I'm really distracted for the first two or three pages of any given novel and then I settle in and am good for the ride. I think this is why I like to read books again. I know by then where the author is going, what kind of mood they're trying to set, etc. and I'm more apt to notice how they estblish that the second time around. So I hate it when a book begins, we get over our akwardness with one another, I'm interested and then -- bam! small climactic moment and the book starts again with a big shift in time and space and sometimes perspective. I resent it more when they don't have the sense to name this a prologue and warn me ahead of time. Fuckers.

This difficulty in getting into books is what I blame when I tell people that I've never read an John Irving book.

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2000

I just read The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank. I liked the main character a lot. She reminded me of people I know, and I liked her relationship with her father.

-- Anonymous, June 26, 2000

Last book I read was The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. It's really not like the musical. I think I liked it. I have so many favorites I can't BGEGIN to list them, but the books I keep reading over and over are The Lord of the Rings trilogy by Tolkien. I read them at 13 and I still love them. I also love Harry Potter...can't wait for No. 4. I wish I could tell all my favorites...1984 rocks too.

-- Anonymous, June 26, 2000

I just finished Terry Pratchett's "The Fifth Elephant". My favorite books are probably the Weetzie Bat series by Francesca Lia Block, even though they're supposed to be of the young adult genre. The imagery she uses is fantastic.

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2000

I've been reading Wild Child, edited by Chelsea Cain, a collections of essays by women who grew up in the counterculture of the sixties and early seventies. It's keeping my attention, which is saying a lot. I'm also trying to read Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a way of life that is outwardly simple, inwardly rich, but although I'm interested in the subject matter, the writing is very dry. I don't think I'm going to be able to finish it.

All time favorites, The Lord of the Rings, Dune, the Narnia series (especially The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Perelandra by C.S. Lewis, Contact by Carl Sagan.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2000

Just finished re-reading Cryptonomicon. It is a FANTASTIC book. Highly recommend.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2000

I thought Me Talk Pretty was eh. Parts of it (the French lessons and the whole Easter Bell part) were great, but parts were just okay.

I'm currently reading "I couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn", by Charlie Chaplin's son Michael, and it is quite the disappointment. I'm halfway through and have yet to get to the promised look at drugs in London's Mod scene. I'm also reading The Kennedy Women, both the Pearl Buck version and the big trashy one. Joan Bennett Kennedy lives down the street from me, and I often contemplate stalking her and making her my new best friend. Then I remember I'm not insane.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2000

I just finished Nick Hornby's About a Boy, which was funny and sweet. I'm almost done reading My Tiny Life, which is sort of a cyberspace memoir. It's about a guy's experiences MUDding back in the earlier days of BBS's and the internet (circa 1994 or so). It's pretty funny and I am relating to it a lot because I used to be a serious BBS junkie back in the day.

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2000

I'm reading Chang and Eng right now and it's very good. I just finished Sidney Poitier's Measure of a Man, which was also good. I liked Nick Hornby's High Fidelity and I just got About a Boy, which I'm going to read next.

Favorites of all time: The Cheerleader, Gone With the Wind, The Color of Water, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Godfather, Postcards from the Edge, lots of Sue Miller, lots of Anne Tyler, lots of Anna Quindlen (who lives in my town, which is cool). I also like Dominic Dunne a lot, People Like Us, A Season in Purgatory.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2000

Okay everybody, go out right now and get a copy of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence.

It is bar none the best piece of feminist thought I've ever read. Which is saying a lot.

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2000

Cunt is indeed rad. Inga Muscio had an awesome Cuntlove website, too, but I've lost it. Help! I wanted a cunt t-shirt!

-- Anonymous, July 29, 2000

Ooh. That does sound interesting.

I kicked Ethan Frome to the curb and now I'm reading Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It's fascinating.

-- Anonymous, July 29, 2000

Gwen, you impress me, reading classics for pleasure and all. But I really posted to say the Oliver Sacks is awesome! I read Man Who Mistook... in junior high shortly after it came out and I probably owe a lot of my fascination with psychological variation to that book. I wish I could go back and read it again for the first time. I just love a well written case study!!!!

-- Anonymous, July 29, 2000

Right on, Renee, re: Gary Paulsen's Winterdance! Oh my God, what an awesome book! It moves along at a good pace, it's laugh-out-loud funny in places and totally tearjerking in others. Easily one of my favorite books, ever.

A lot of you seem to like Tolkien. You might also like Mark Anthony, who is writing a series called The Last Rune. The first installment is Beyond the Pale and also out now is The Keep Of Fire. I love them both, especially the second one. I think you'll like them, too. He's got a web site: http://www.thelastrune.com/.

The good books I've read this year are The Keep of Fire, by Mark Anthony, "I" Is For Innoncent" and "J" Is For Judgement, by Sue Grafton (yes, I'm reading all her alphabet novels - I enjoy them and they're light), and most recently, The Girl Hunters, a Mike Hammer novel by Mickey Spillane. Yes, I love the Mike Hammer novels, I admit. I've gone as far back as the first one and I'm reading them in order. Man, that Mike Hammer is one tough son of a bitch, Spillane's imagination and writing style leave me stunned with every new chapter, and reading these books leaves me feeling gritty and raw. Pretty good for words on pages. :-)

I'm currently reading some non-fiction, Attacking Faulty Reasoning. I've picked up a lot of books on "thinking" lately, because I'm tired of not being able to argue as effectively as I'd like to. :-P

Oh, and I've read tons of Anne Rice, but Tale of the Body Thief and the whole Mayfair witches series utterly left me feeling like she'd completely lost her touch, and now I can't stand her.

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2000

I'm almost finished with Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina. While it is a wee bit predictable (of course the step-father is abusive) it is so beautifully written and characterized I just had to share! :)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Well, this is September, but, since I'm just jumpin into all the topics on this, my first day on the forum...

I'm reading "City of Darkness, City of Light" by Marge Piercy. I read "Gone To Soldiers" by her last month and I'm really digging her writing.

Recently also read "Jambalaya" by Luisah Teish and "Hearts in Atlantis" by Stephen King. Really want to read "The Red Tent".

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

I'm in a big re-reading phase, because I've been reading aloud to Paul. We're working on Naked by David Sedaris, and next we plan to do Nine Stories by JD Salinger, although he's already started that one without me.

Naked isn't 100% laugh-out-loud funny, but DAMN, the parts that are laugh-out-loud funny make me laugh until I choke.

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

I just read The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank.

Ooh, good one! The last story made me tear up. Sweet.

Am reading Cryptonomicrom (Neal Stephenson) for the first time, stayed up way past my bedtime trying to finish it in under three hours. I read fast, but not THAT fast. Thus I was thwarted. Tonight, however, it shall submit.

Re-read Idoru so I'd have it fresh for All Tomorrow's Parties, both by William Gibson.

Lest you think I'm a total cyber-/cypherpunk, I also read Toyer, author sadly lost to the vagaries of my spotty short-term memory, and it was a decent if not phenomenal "female protagonist seeks out psychotic with issues" story. The author actually asked some interesting questions and invented some unique scenarios, so it's not as run-of-the-mill as you'd expect. (But is it art? Hmm.)

Read Professor and the Madman, about the birth of the OED and two of the most pivotal players involved, one of whom happened to reside in a nuthouse at the time.

Also read a Sandman spin-off, the ten-year anniversary story, which was illustrated beautifully by a Japanese artist. Re- tells an old Japanese story that Neil Gaiman felt had startling parallels with his own mythology. (I can't speak to that, as I am stubborn about not wanting to get into Sandman unless I can read ALL of it. I HATE getting into a graphic novel only to find out that the res tof it has been snarfed up by collectors or that I'll have to wait two or more months and make a mental note to add "lurking at a comic book store" to my weekly habits. Nothing wrong with lurking at comic book stores, I just avoid it because I'm too poor to make it a habit. Oh yes--about Sandman. To buy the series--IF they are not sold out--would run me a minimum of $250 for paperback re-issues. IF I can find them. I know it's worth it, based on multiple positive opinions and reviews from people I trust, but I don't have a spare $250-$400 laying about at the moment.)

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

A book called something like Photoshop For Dumbshits Who Don't Know Shit From Shinola About Corpeuwtors in the First Place. Or something like that. But Clancy's nove Patriot Games was the last real novel I read. I read either books about photography and the philosophy about creating art or surfer/Outdoor magazines. James

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

I just finished Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's The Ice Limit. It was very exciting and had an ending that left you wondering but still satisfied. Right now I'm working on Jemima J by Jane Green. Jemima is ok; but she's basically just Bridget Jones. I probably wouldn't finish it if I didn't have to read it for my book club.

-- Anonymous, September 12, 2000

I just finished a great book called "What We Keep". It's by Elizabeth Berg, really good.

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2000

I just finished God's Perfect Child by Caroline Fraser, about Christian Science. Very scary stuff!

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2000

Jill--is your book club online or offline and local?

A friend of mine is considering stating a "salon", which would end up being a combination 'excuse for brunch / high tea' / book club / 'women's professional empowerment group' (as we're mostly creative types working in overlapping areas and fields). If you're participating in something like that, I'd love to hear about it.

I still need to pick up "Me Talk Pretty One Day"...it's on The (must eventually read / buy) List. (When I have the spare $, I can't find anything on The List and settle for other stuff to scratch the reading itch, and when I'm trying not to blow my budget, I see List books everywhere or hear two-three raves a day about books I've Listed. Bleah.)

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2000

Finished Jemima J last night. What a goofy syrupy little fairy tale. Milla, the book club I read that for is local; we meet at the store where I work. Although I recently discovered ChickLit (it's on Gwen's links page) and am going to have to start participating in those discussions, too. Now for my own pleasure I've started in on Change Me into Zeus' Daughter, a memoir about a woman who grew up poor and malnourished with a disfigured face. Here are 2 books I want to read only because the titles are so brilliant (I don't even know anything else about them yet). They are: Why the Tree Loves the Ax and Peel My Love Like an Onion.

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2000

Why the Tree Loves the Ax -- that does sound interesting. You'll have to tell me if it's any good, J.

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2000

Wanna know something cool? I just have to share my good fortune! Anyway, I subscribe to the Borders.com newsletter. Awhile ago they wrote me and told me that I had won some sweepstakes I didn't even realize I'd entered. The prize was a fat stack of books, new titles by women authors, and they just arrived today. It was like Christmas! Some of them I've already read and there are a couple of duds but mostly it is a very choice selection. The funniest part is I never shop at Borders; I work for their biggest competitor!

-- Anonymous, September 15, 2000

Bad-ass! Congratulations, Jill.

-- Anonymous, September 15, 2000

WOO HOO, Jill! Love it. :)

-- Anonymous, September 15, 2000

"Cruddy" by Lynda Barry

-- Anonymous, September 18, 2000

Marisa, didn't it just knock your socks off?! Lynda Barry is amazing.

-- Anonymous, September 18, 2000

Jill - If you like Lynda Barry find a copy of an article she wrote for a special NEWSWEEK edition (July 1991 or 1992) called "GUARDIAN NEIGHBOR." It is one of the best things I have ever read in my life. Simply outstandi

-- Anonymous, September 18, 2000