love this guy. need to read his new one.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
Picked up The Fun Parts yesterday afternoon at the library and was through it a couple hours later. Easily as good as The Ask.
― viacom dios, Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
i'm reading it now, amazing stuff
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
Wow - completely blown away by Venus Drive. this guy rules. fuck any comparisons to Bukowski though
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:10 (seven years ago) link
Newest one was pretty fun, even if the "villain" reads a little heavy handed and all too convenient from 2023 but I like the weirdo LES characters.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
Any recs on where to start with this guy?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 07:40 (eleven months ago) link
home land is great
― flopson, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 12:50 (eleven months ago) link
i didn't love the new one. he's a great writer but it just has the same thing where writers try to write about rock bands where it never feels authentic. maybe it was supposed to be kind of silly bc the whole book was a bit cartoonish but it didn't work for me. having the main characters' band be called "the shits" was emblematic of that, plus all the band members having "band names" - none of that feels like NYC in the early '90s to me.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 13:20 (eleven months ago) link