After Claude by Iris Owens. Really dark and really funny. Unreliable narrator with full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder which does not prevent her from being really sharp about everything except herself. Early 1970s New York setting, bonus for the last section of the book being set at the Chelsea Hotel.

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I was going to write about The Apocalypse. But I think I will write about The Apocalypse tomorrow and tonight I am going to write about how much I hate Paulo Coelho.

I hate Paulo Coelho more than I hate Forrest Gump and almost as much as I hate Life is BeautifulMy first experience with Paulo Coelho came about because I have fits of vanity ( Read more... )