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    randilynisFINDILYNAnna Merlan
    5/13/16 10:15am

    This year’s annual re-read will be especially poignant. RIP.

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      SguegliasLadyrandilynisFINDILYN
      5/13/16 10:30am

      Every year. Sometimes twice.

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      randilynisFINDILYNSguegliasLady
      5/13/16 10:39am

      It makes the outside world go away.

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    thetallblonde loves twinjaAnna Merlan
    5/13/16 10:15am

    i know we all grieve when people like bowie or prince die, but i’ve never sat and thought about how i’ll feel when my favorite author eventually dies. that might actually hurt worse than bowie.

    time to go re-read geek love.

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      artless.dodgerthetallblonde loves twinja
      5/13/16 10:45am

      When I realize that James Ellroy, John Waters, and Margaret Atwood aren’t spring chickens anymore, I get twitchy.

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      I may have lost my burner but that's just like your opinionartless.dodger
      5/13/16 11:01am

      Seriously, esp. John Waters. As for Atwood, I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, I just can’t bring myself to like most of her books. My Canadians are Alice Munro and Robertson Davies.

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    Celia the Vampire Slaying VampireAnna Merlan
    5/13/16 10:24am

    Nooooooo! I am among her obsessive cult fans! She was an incredible woman and writer. So wicked talented and multifaceted. And now she won’t ever get to finish her Geek Love sequel she was always working on in her wonderful, slow, careful way. What a person! Such a loss. A real tour-de-force person.

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      BuntyPeachCelia the Vampire Slaying Vampire
      5/13/16 11:30am

      A reporter once said to Joseph Heller “You haven’t published a novel as good as Catch 22 over the course of your career...” and he replied “Nor has anyone else”. I feel this way about KD and Geek Love. All books are a disappointment in comparison.

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      Celia the Vampire Slaying VampireBuntyPeach
      5/13/16 11:58am

      Completely agreed. It’s a masterpiece.

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    JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereAnna Merlan
    5/13/16 10:20am

    I especially love how she was 64 at the time of the attempted mugging and she beat the shit out of the 25 year old dude. I would have loved to have heard that kid’s internal dialog at the time when this “helpless old lady” was skillfully pummeling his face.

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      jpomonkeyJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      5/13/16 11:32am

      It was a chick, but yeah.

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    Lana del GrayAnna Merlan
    5/13/16 10:40am

    I need to read this. Is it the kind of book I can read drugged, alone on a transcontinental flight? Or will it freak me the fuck out?

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      jpomonkeyLana del Gray
      5/13/16 11:31am

      It will freak you out in the best possible way.

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      Lana del Grayjpomonkey
      5/13/16 11:46am

      The cover alone freaks me out! can’t wait.

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    sararueful2Anna Merlan
    5/13/16 9:23pm

    Looks like I’m the only one who didn’t like this? I found it gross and disturbing. In fact, despite a lifetime of reading King and Saul and Koontz, Geek Love and American Psycho are literally the only novels I’ve read where I thought the author had something deeply wrong with them. Like, I kind of shudder when I think of either of those books.

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      Paranoid Android (sometimes says dumb things)Anna Merlan
      5/13/16 11:35am

      I freaking love that book as much as I dislike Arturo. RIP Katherine Dunn.

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        agenttrembleAnna Merlan
        5/13/16 1:37pm

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        Geek Love is one of my absolute favorite books.

        Has anyone read either of her other novels?

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          goddessoftransitoryAnna Merlan
          5/13/16 2:01pm

          Okay, I’ll read it. Been on my “must get to this” list far too long.

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            SguegliasLadyAnna Merlan
            5/13/16 10:32am

            When my son was diagnosed with Fragile X Syndrome, I heard Big Al’s voice in my head speaking the words he told Oly when Chick was born: “Go ahead and love it anyway”. That book, that fucking brilliant book!

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