Any recommendations for a good Absurdest Author?
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| I love Terry Pratchett! I love when authors craft such beautiful sentences that you read them over and over to try to imprint them on your brain for future reference. If only my brain had a memory component... |
| Isn't he fantastic, Kim? I fell in love with the Disc world series a few years back. He reminds me a lot of Douglas Adams (another all time favorite)! |
| Neil Gaiman is a person favorite of mine! I assume you've read GOOD OMENS by him and Terry Pratchett? If not, you should add it to your list. Also, Neil's The graveyard Book is a great read. Along these same lines, I really like Tom Robbins as an author. I read Christopher Moore's LAMB, which I loved. But then I read YOU SUCK and was somewhat disappointed. I love a book that treats religion with irreverence and challenges the reader to think larger than dogma. Tom Robbins goes in that direction sometimes. |
| The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is always the book that comes to mind when I think of absurdism. It's a good read! |
Darth Snuggle wrote: Neil Gaiman is a person favorite of mine! I assume you've read GOOD OMENS by him and Terry Pratchett? If not, you should add it to your list. Also, Neil's The graveyard Book is a great read. Along these same lines, I really like Tom Robbins as an author. I read Christopher Moore's LAMB, which I loved. But then I read YOU SUCK and was somewhat disappointed. I love a book that treats religion with irreverence and challenges the reader to think larger than dogma. Tom Robbins goes in that direction sometimes. I loved Good Omens! I also loved Gaiman's Neverwhere and American Gods. Right now I just started the Anasazi Boys. I also agree, I loved Lamb. You may also want to try Fool which is the retelling of King Lear, which is very entertaining. I don't really care for his original pieces, like The Island of the Sequinned Love Nun or Practical Demonkeeping. I also love Douglas Adams; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and Dirk Gently are my favorites. I've always wanted to get Don't Panic tattooed on my wrist in homage to him. I'll have to look into Tom Robbins! I read Metamorphosis years ago. It was a great short story. I think Kafka wrote a book of short stories, I'll have to see if I can find it. |
| I think tom Robbins' best known and highest acclaimed novel is probably STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER. I'd start there if I were you. I also love JITTERBUG PERFUME but some of his later books are really entertaining as well. I love them all. Read Gaiman's THE GRAVE YARD BOOK soon-ish. Adam likes reading it every October; he says its a great Halloween read! |
| Is The Graveyard Book the one with a main character named Nobody? I was looking at that and was pretty intrigued, so I'm glad to know that it's a good book! Josh told me that The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore is a great Christmas read. |
* Capt. Obvious Danger wrote: I loved Good Omens! I also loved Gaiman's Neverwhere and American Gods. Right now I just started the Anasazi Boys. HBO is in talks to develop American Gods/Anasazi Boys into a series, which would be fantastic! I love all things Christopher Moore and, although I think Lamb is my favorite, I actually prefer the ones that aren't retellings. I also love how lots of his characters make appearances in his other novels. |
ButtersStotch wrote: * Capt. Obvious Danger wrote: I loved Good Omens! I also loved Gaiman's Neverwhere and American Gods. Right now I just started the Anasazi Boys. HBO is in talks to develop American Gods/Anasazi Boys into a series, which would be fantastic! I love all things Christopher Moore and, although I think Lamb is my favorite, I actually prefer the ones that aren't retellings. I also love how lots of his characters make appearances in his other novels. What I really loved about American Gods was the section on the house on the rock in Wisconsin. I went there last year with Josh and it was really cool to see the place Gaiman was talking about. So far Anasanzi boys is pretty entertaining, but I've loved all Gaiman's books so far. I'm still willing to listen to more Christopher Moore. I really do think his story telling ability has evolved over the years. |
| Neil Gaiman's Coraline: the book is substantially different from the movie, and worth picking up. If you aren't averse to comics, see if you can find the illustrated version, drawn by P. Craig Russell. heck, if you aren't averse to comics, it opens a whole world of Gaiman's writings that are phenomenal. The Sandman series by DC Comics' Vertigo division is available as graphic novels, and a really remarkable read: http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/ ... an_Summary |
| You could re-read the classic compilation "Food for Thought" opus here. Of course the classic "My tubes is tired" by Eegnor Amos is a perennial favorite too. (I didn't say that) |
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