[it wasn't always easy but i sure had fun]

[minervacat]

Dear Red Sox fans:

Thanks for not burning Boston down, yo.

Love,
Min

P.S. I heard some outrageous rumor that your team beat the Yankees to win the AL pennant; way to go! *grin*

In other news, there is no other news, but there is a Top 5 topic. Top 5 Authors You Think Everyone Should Read. We've done Top 5 Books You Think Everyone Should Read,

Comments

[mellyflori]

Good topic. Of course, you snatched Chris right out from under me. Curse you! So let's assume I started with Chris too, and that I even recommended starting with Lamb and going forward like you did. Let's call these next ones 2 through 6

[minervacat]

You could have said Chris Moore again! There can never be enough reinforcement that he is brilliant and should rule the world! (Also I am waiting patiently for the sequel to Fiends and it can't come soon enough. *wants*)

And if people are reading Gaiman, I have to insist that they read all the Sandman comics, too, even if they "don't like comics". Gaiman's writing with McKean's art is just too much for me to take. It makes my heart hurt, it's so gorgeous.

Read "The Hippopotamus" because no one likes to sit next to the crazy laughing lady.
It's true! It's why reading Lamb on the bus was so often. People edged away from me and left me plenty of open seats. <3

[mellyflori]

Did you read this special Sandman? I swear, I wept.

And for Fry, if you ever find it, try "Making History" ... its theory is "What if Hitler was the best option?" And it makes your brain go all twisty-like.

[minervacat]

I haven't been able to lay my hands on that one yet. I read most of them the summer after my senior year when my friend missingm, who owns all of them, was living down the hall from me. But he didn't have that one then.

I'll look for Fry when I go to the library this weekend. I've been meaning to read him for ages, but when I go to look at books, I never remember him. Writing Making History down right now, so I don't forget.

[mellyflori]

If you don't find it before you come home for next let me know and you can run off with my copy for a bit.

[listersgirl]

I knew there was a reason I loved you. :D

Moore, Gaiman, Willis and Fry are possibly my four favourite authors, and I'm just getting into Palahniuk.

Now, however, I have to rush off and read Pam Houston - how could I not, with the company she's keeping?

[mellyflori]

Fair warning, you'll find Houston not in the same family as the others. She's very much of the introspective chick variety. She's also guilty of writing huge honking Mary-Sues.. I think the way she gets away with calling it fiction is to do a search-and-replace on everyone's names. Her stuff is all about women who make bad decisions.. well, sometimes they make good decisions, but that's rare. It's all collections of short stories and they are exquisite. She has this story in "A Little More About Me" that you'd probably love.. there's this line in it that says "I've never been able to picture myself as beautiful in any way that didn't involve movement." She takes up these hideously dangerous hobbies and dates these TERRIBLE men.. but she's wonderful. If you go to her website pamhouston.com (maybe .net, but I think .com) there are exerpts from her books.

[mellyflori]

http://www.pamhouston.net/waltzing.html

That's one of my favorites of her stories, actually. It's the first story out of "Waltzing the Cat."

[listersgirl]

Oh, wow, great stuff. Her writing is so direct, yet descriptive. I'm definitely going to have to read more.

[mellyflori]

On a completely unrelated note to Mz. Houston.. try Ben Elton too. Start with "This Other Eden" and now i stop spamming Min's comments. :)

[listersgirl]

Ha! I picked up a Ben Elton (Dead Famous) on a complete whim at the ChickLit book swap. Now I feel justified. :)

[minervacat]

Man, I turn comment notification off on the Top 5s. Spam away. <3