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Jul 27, 2007 11:36PM
I have read running with scissors recentley and I wondered if anyone had any suggestions of books that are like it. A satyrical book where the main character is gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
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We Think the World of You by JR Ackerley. Really something.
that book looks interesting, thanks for the rec!i haven't read RWS altho i saw and mostly enjoyed the movie. i have read a bit of burroughs beside, though, and he is stellar.
thanks, that seems like a interesting book...i will check it out...
How about anything by Max Beerbohm? No queer main characters, but so good...
I've only read "Zuleika Dobson" and hated it. Do you recommend anything else, Wally?
Just to let everyone know. Augusten Burroughs wrote a sequel memoir called "Dry". It is where Augusten is all grown up, he works for an advertising company, and has an alcohol problem. Some other books of his:
Sellevision
Possible Side-Effects(on my to-read list)
just finished We Think the World of You... absolutely great.
I assume you have checked out David Sedaris, who is quite gifted and extremely funny. He is the go to for funny gay reads (and his sister is a riot too).I read "Openly Bob" by Bob Smith quite a few years ago and found the book quite cute and poignant. I am about to read the follow-up "Way to go Smith", but I can definitely recommend "Openly Bob".
Maybe if you end up liking David Sedaris, you might also like David Rakoff's "Fraud." Very much along the same vein. It's an autobiographical series of humorous/satirical essays by a gay author.
I would like to suggest "The Fran Lebowitz Reader", a series of essays that are absolutely devastatingly funny.
"Anyone who says a dog is man's best friend has never met a good tax lawyer."
"Anyone who says a dog is man's best friend has never met a good tax lawyer."
ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf.Fiction, but the original queer dry humor book.
i loved this book so much that i started all over and read it again! lol
