Chuck Palahniuk
Kathy just read me Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. It's a series of connected short stories. Fun read, just like Fight Club. I especially liked Guts, which is the story that made no less than 75 people pass out around the country as he read it on the book tour. I've known about the infamous story for awhile now, since watching the Palahniuk writing conference dvd "Postcards from the Future" last year. But this is the first time I'd read it. Well, sort of. I mean, Kathy did all the reading.
That's one of my favorite things we do together. She loves to read out loud (I think it's the 10+ years of radio DJ coming out), and I get to just sit back and close my eyes and visualize the story as it unfolds. We read Cory Doctorow's book Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town the same way. Up next, she wants us to read Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, but we'll see if she still does when she finds out Palahniuk has a new book, Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey. I just put it on hold at the library. I don't think she knows it exists.
You can read Guts here if you want. Also, there's some videos of Chuck reading it over on youtube. You've been warned. :)
That's one of my favorite things we do together. She loves to read out loud (I think it's the 10+ years of radio DJ coming out), and I get to just sit back and close my eyes and visualize the story as it unfolds. We read Cory Doctorow's book Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town the same way. Up next, she wants us to read Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, but we'll see if she still does when she finds out Palahniuk has a new book, Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey. I just put it on hold at the library. I don't think she knows it exists.
You can read Guts here if you want. Also, there's some videos of Chuck reading it over on youtube. You've been warned. :)