Complete Nerdity

Tonight is my one night a month where I nerd the fuck out at a coffee house with 2 people my own age and the rest of the demographic: Lesbians and housewives, sometimes you can count on one maybe two dudes showing up (I think they get easily scared off though be the aforementioned make up of the group). I really enjoy going and getting completely different perspectives on books, It also is helping me with the massive affliction I have carried with me most of my life, the inability to choose a decent rental movie and/or book from any store such as Barnes and Nobel, boarders, take your pick. I just always choose (never on purpose mind you) the worst book or movie you could bare to sit though and/or give your attention to for any period of time. I convinced myself that instead of a 12 step program I only needed a 1 step one that only consisted of the rule that I am never to choose either on my own, so far its working. So this works out really well for me that I have an opportunity to read really great books and then talk about them, its also nice since I took predominately British based English courses though high school and because I chose a lucrative career (right!) of an artist and plunged deep into art school which would you believe was not so heavily depending on a English course at all to get you though the degree? Don’t get me wrong it was difficult and time consuming (and sometimes emotionally consuming…although that usually depended on the severity of your seasonal depression in Rochester NY) but it was very light on having any introduction to what most people would refer to as classic books.

This one was a strange book. It tool me a while to get into it and then it takes off in a very intense way, I think I would definitely recommend.


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A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus. It's a solipsistic funhouse world that makes "normal" people seem bland and pitiful. Arturo the Aqua-Boy, who has flippers and an enormous need to be loved. A museum of sacred monsters that didn't make it. An endearing "little beetle" of a heroine. Sort of like Tod Browning's Freaks crossed with David Lynch and John Irving and perhaps George Eliot -- the latter for the power of the emotions evoked.