Good suggestions.
I'm leaning towards Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, but I'll compile a list of possibilities.
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - May 23, 2012 12:47:58 pm PDT #18909 of 28635
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
JZ - May 23, 2012 12:49:18 pm PDT #18910 of 28635
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Anything by Flannery O'Connor? (Granted, practicing Catholic and thus not exactly anti-authoritarian in a, well, catholic sense, but she does give the general stink-eye to human authority; the more one of her characters thinks s/he knows it all and has gamed the system, the more spectacular the cosmic bitchslap)
Amy - May 23, 2012 12:49:39 pm PDT #18911 of 28635
Because books.
Oh, that's a good one, too.
erikaj - May 23, 2012 12:50:12 pm PDT #18912 of 28635
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Elmore Leonard. You know I'd go there, though. Carl Hiassen Geek Love was good, though.
Kate P. - May 23, 2012 2:27:15 pm PDT #18913 of 28635
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Catch-22, and I second the Vonnegut rec too.
hippocampus - May 23, 2012 2:54:21 pm PDT #18914 of 28635
not your mom's socks.
Thirding Vonnegut. On the Road.
erikaj - May 23, 2012 4:01:56 pm PDT #18915 of 28635
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Catcher in the Rye
chrismg - May 23, 2012 8:11:39 pm PDT #18916 of 28635
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
As Gaiman (basically) says in the introduction, there's a reason the title is plural.
Ugh Ugh Ugh. That is really foul. Foul enough that I regret ever recommending the story to anyone, and I think it's been permanently tainted for me.
§ ita § - May 24, 2012 4:56:49 am PDT #18917 of 28635
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What makes it feel like Violence Against Women as opposed to violence with female victims?
erikaj - May 24, 2012 6:39:59 am PDT #18918 of 28635
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
Chris, I still read James Ellroy(Even though it makes me feel kinda dirty) so Neil Gaiman would have to rip out a hooker's beating heart and eat it, before I'd think "Argh...too sexist!" He doesn't, does he?