Skippy Dies broke a lot of my rules for literature and still allowed me to love it. I can't stand violence to children in what is, essentially, an entertainment. Really graphic, unhealthy sexual activity is another one that bothers me. Drug abuse is too hard for me to relate to and comes across as a...
What to say, what to say. I really enjoyed this book, and I never really feel like writing reviews of my favorites, probably because it's easier to be snarky while taking the piss (oh British). Writing about something that I found intellectually stimulating, or that made me laugh, or moved me (or al...
Short blurb: Better than Franzen.Ruprecht van Doren, the slovenly fat roommate of the eponymous--and eponymically deceased--Skippy, loves donuts and SETI and string theory's most prominent Stanford-based proponent Dr. Hideo Tamashi and, if you really pushed past the nerdy theory-fixated stiff upper ...
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