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75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Xombie's 75 Books In 2008		12	xombie, July 15
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What Are You Reading Now? : Books with Dual Time Periods		43	harrietbrown, May 26
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... to say: although this is a love story, it's a love story like The Letters of Abelard and Heloise is a love story; like Geek Love was a love story; like Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a love story. The narrator is forced to constantly reassess both himself and Marianna throughout the course ...

... the Sea. As they dined upon Cod under The Mango Tree, she asked,"Are you Happy?" They All Laughed... It was Love in The Land of Spices.

Sandman Neil Gaiman Agnes and the Hitman Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer Interview with the Vampire Anne Rice Geek Love Katharine Dunn Blood Sucking Fiends: a love story Christopher Moore

Finished Panic in Level 4 and Snuff. I will now head into Geek Love, been looking forward to all the reading free time!

Finally I have a duplicate copy to share! I have a non-virago copy of Love by Elizabeth von Arnim. It's a Washington Square Press softcover, with an afterword by Terence de Vere White, which is the same as the foreword in the Virago Edition. The cover is a bit battered, but the inside is ...

On the back of Geek Love it has a review: ...if Flannery O'Connor had consumed vast quantities of LSD, she may have written like this Although these comparisons always make me cringe, I think I might be reading something by 'Flan' next- Wise Blood ? which would also give me one for my ...

Oh, Surfacing was so strange and topsy-turvy. I have started reading Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn which does not fall into any of my categories, but is a group read over on Babbling Books http://onlinebookclub.myfreeforum.org/about2773.html

... story about George W. Bush to have meaning to people's lives. The most bizarre, out-there book I can think of right now is Geek Love, but in today's pluralistic society, the celebration of difference in that novel was absolutely relevant! I think the appeal of self-help books lies in their ...

re. #9 / 49 - Do you also think the reverse that if I loved Geek Love, I'll like Chuck Palahniuk? I have Lullaby on my TBR pile because I found it at a thrift store, but I've been reluctant to read it.

... book of loosely related stories, but instead Bock has tied them altogether in a way that doesnt quite mesh. 49. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn A family saga about carnival freaks. There is really no way to adequately describe this book. I personally love it to death. However it can ...

Entered Love by Elizabeth Von Arnim The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield

Geek Love, Katherine Dunn Tattoo Girl, Brooke Stevens Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others, Daniel P. Mannix

Just started Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.

Are you Happy? and other questions lovers ask by Edward Koren The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas Love by Elizabeth Von Arnim (wrong touchstone) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen On Top of the World by Luree Miller

... ending. It's so lush, sensuous, erotic, and utterly freeing. The only work of Carter's that I don't really care for is Love.

Cariola, thank you so much for such a kind offer. I have just checked prices though, and Love seems to be available in the UK for less than it would cost you to send across the Atlantic. So maybe it's one for you to pass on to an American Virago lover?

FleurFisher, I just got a copy of Love in the box my friend sent, and I have another copy, different cover (Pantheon edition), coming from a BookMooch member. If and when it arrives, I'll be happy to mail it on to you, if you'd like it.

... that has been waiting for me for almost a week now. Here's what I found: For Love Alone by Christina Stead Love by Elizabeth von Armin Marcella by Mrs. Humphrey Ward From Man to Man by Olive Schreiner The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagmold My Friend Says I ...

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, and After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima. All for 28 dollars, pretty good I think.

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, Fiiciones by Jorge Luis Borges, and After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima. Love my local used bookshop!

I loved your reviews in post 70. I''l certainly be reading Geek love and The book of lost things in the near future.

... I, too have read Brick Lane, The Namesake, The Time Traveller's Wife, and Notes on a Scandal. I've also read Love, plan to read Small Island this month, and will get to Purple Hibiscus, probably over the summer.

... had spent a little less time on how cool the style was and a little bit more time making the characters come to life. Geek Love, in comparison, was amazing. I had just been complaining to my beloved about my lack of emotional involvement in any of my recent books, decrying either modern ...

#136> TerrierGirl, you might enjoy The Enchanted April and Love (wrong touchstone for Love). I found both great readings.

... of substance, but I finished my paid writing gigs last night, so hopefully soon! The reading, however, continues: 57. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Fabulous. I think my modern lit treatise/diatribe/rant/who knows may compare the last three grown-up modern books I've read- Never Let Me Go ...

Geek Love looks like it has potential thanks avaland. I don't think it is so difficult to find someone who is socially rejected. Guess I could look up some American Idol losers. lol (only kidding)

Maybe there is a character in Geek Love that would fit? I haven't read it but only have read about it. The setting of the Hunchback is several centuries ago, right? You might not find a reasonable social equivalent, unless it involves suspected witchcraft.

... the only reward they are taught as worth wanting: the love of a man. The homely but rich Miss Licks in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love best expresses the dichotomy: 'If all these pretty women could shed the traits that made men want them the n they would no longer depend on their own ...

... version) Reading in the Dark Seamus Deane The Imaginary girlfriend A memoir by John Irving Arcadia Jim Crace Love Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

... Not at all like the road that Kerouac traveled, but I think you'll be intrigued by that book. A very odd sort of book is Geek Love by Katherine Dunn which I also want my college-age daughter to read. If you like 60's literature (and I'm from back in "those" days), try Willlard and the ...

Even getting it to ten was rough for me! : / Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Middlesex by Jeffery Eunginides The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Witch's Boy by Michael Gruber American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis ...

... by Margaret Atwood In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Giver by Lois Lowry Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Perfume by Patrick Suskind The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs Blindness by Jose Saramago A ...

... has one main timeline where stuff is happening, but a secondary timeline of people trying to figure out the mystery. Geek Love, Water for Elephants, The Prestige all have the one main timeline with a framing secondary structure, although the two timelines don't interplay quite so much ...

31. Geek Love Pretty sick stuff...I loved it!! If you liked Choke, I think you'll enjoy this. Arty Binewski goes up on my top 3 of most disturbing characters. Anyways, vacation ends today. I'm very sad, as I've enjoyed staying home, and just reading in bed, cuddled up with the furkid. ...

... ich The Boyfriend School by Sarah Bird (also other of her novels particularly The Mommy Club Ugly Girl by Barbara Rex Geek Love by Katherine Dunn The Dark Sister Rebecca Goldstein Life in the Iron Mills, Rebecca Harding Davis A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler Foreign Affairs ...

... Catholic YA JF: The Chocolate War YA CR: Beyond the Chocolate War YA LF: Siddhartha LF: Lost Horizon LF: Geek Love LF: The Wanderers LF: Breakfast at Tiffany's LF: A Clockwork Orange

... pfft! ordered from Amazon today: Beyond the Chocolate War Siddhartha A Clockwork Orange The Wanderers Geek Love Lost Horizon Breakfast at Tiffany's

Love and Mr. Skeffington, both by Elizabeth von Arnim. They both deal with beauty, seen from different perspectives and for different reasons.

#148> nohrt4me, the book is Love by Elizabeth von Arnim, and not Mr. Skeffington, as almigwin says. Both by the same author, but the first deals with an older woman who falls in love with a younger man and marries him, as you describe, whereas the other tells the story of a younger woman who ...

... Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez How to DJ Right by Frank Broughton Geek Love by Katherine Dunn How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard Tick by Peter Sotos 8 down, 67 to ...

... The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover Khaled by Marion F. Crawford Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney Coraline by Neil Gaiman A Secret History ...

64, 65, and 66: Well, all right, then. :) Used to own, had to replace: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Brave New World by Adolus Huxley Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick (This copy says the title is Bladerunner. Gr ...

... Award by Jincy Willett The Miss America Family by Julianna Baggott Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier Love by Toni Morrison The life all around me by ellen foster by Kaye Gibbons Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins

2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899). So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...

... Julia Scheeres The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

... to what is vital. It is a moment of transcendence. Then there is the solidity of love that Shakespeare talks about: "love is an ever fixed mark" unshaken by tempests. So there is a durable nature to feeling as well as a transcendent nature, it seems to me. What do you think?

... & Mrs. Proudie from Barchester Towers. Legolas. Eowyn. Faramir in the book, not the movie one. Arty the Aquaboy from Geek Love. Grandfather Trout (August), Smoky, Great Aunt Cloud from Little, Big.

... Opera, John Barth 20. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow 21. Little Women, Louisa M Alcott 22. Surfacing, M Atwood 23. Geek Love, Katherine Dunn 24. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor 25. Seventh Heaven, Alice Hoffman 26. The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum 27. Nineteen Eighty Four, Ge ...

--> 109 I thought Geek Love was brilliant. I love the message it conveys.

My review of Geek Love is posted here. Good, but very bizarre book. reading_fox - how about a review of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson? My dad keeps recommending it to me, but I'd like a second ...

Geek Love was always one of my favorite novels to recommend to those wanting something 'different', but not too totally off the wall. T.C. Boyle's highly underrated The Road to Wellville has always had its semi-rabid fans over the years, myself included, but seems to be regarded now as one of ...

I'm about 1/3 of the way through Geek Love when I can steal time away from grading papers and lab reports. I can't quite say I'm enjoying it, exactly, but I'm certainly fascinated by it and wish I had more time to read it. I'm listening to The Lost Painting, which is kind of outside my ...

140: wisewoman... thank you for the Wynne Jones heads up. Sounds like fun! 142: fyrefly98... Geek Love, my favorite hug-it-throw-it-against-the-wall book. I'm told Beans of Egypt, Maine will cause a similar love/hate reaction. That one is still "to be read."

... from grown-up books. :) I finished Atonement last night (had to read it before the movie came out), and started on Geek Love, my assignment from the Go Review That Book group. So far, so good, although I'm only about 20 pages in. Still hacking away at The Shadow in the North on ...

I finished Atonement last night (loved it), and started Geek Love for a few pages before bed. I'm also still picking away at the audiobook of The Shadow in the North. Partly I've been busy, but mostly I'm just not that interested, so I'm only listening to maybe 10-15 minutes of it a day. ...

Geek Love, The Collector, Perfume and Lord of the Flies are for sure up there on the disturbing shelf, but I enjoyed them all. Geek Love is a favorite, although I alternate between throwing it against the wall and hugging it close. The movie version of The Collector is ...

hmmm....this changes all the time, but here goes. No particular order. Little, Big by John Crowley Geek Love by Katharine Dunn The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope Aubrey/Maturin seriesby Patrick O'Brian The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Von ...

... not too frightened by "The Establishment" to publish this book. Has anyone else here read it? --> 56 I relished Geek Love, too! I think the author had an excellent point.

Out. Coudn't finish it. Geek Love is one of my all-time favourite books. (My username is a tribute.) It is disturbing, tho.

>198 Nancy- No worries. :) Patience is clearly not my strong suit! I'm excited for Geek Love - I've been trying to read my way through Pajiba's (which is foremost a movie review site) Best Books of the Generation, but I ...

... I was laying awake last night thinking I'd forgotten to pick--and I love the power of choosing for someone else too! Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. I read it years ago and loved it. Not sure if I'd feel the same now.

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. The whole story just makes me shudder when I even think about it.

I'm reading Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, A Degree of Mastery by Annie Tremmel Wilcox, and I just checked out In the Stacks by Michael Cart.

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

... somewhat tall for a woman and well, ok, you can have the geek part. Two of my favourite books are Little, Big and Geek Love, which gives a fairly good idea of my personality.

... that weren't in my stack of finished books because I gave them to my husband to read right after I finished them: 23. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn 24. American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Hhhmmm. Geek Love? Human Croquet? Absalom, Absalom?

Geek Love, perhaps? It certainly fits the bit about "pretty popular a few years back".

... such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing." Geek Love by Katharine Dunn It only gets weirder from there.

... happens. The book was narrated by death, appropriate for the time period. I will definitely read this one again. 9. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. Shock value story. But, still better than Palahnick’s Haunted. Hunchback girl grows up in carnival freak family, subplot involves her ...

... Big (by Haven Kimmel), G.B.Edwards' wonderful novel The Book of Ebenezer La Page (Reynolds Price), Katherine Dunn's Geek Love (Jennifer Weiner), Achebe's Things Fall Apart (Jim Crace), and David Mitchell's wild card Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

... been able to come up with much else so far. There's always Katherine Dunn. Again, I've read just one of her books, Geek Love, but it'd be hard to find more of an outsider than Olympia.

6 ryvre Geek Love is on my TBR list. I don't remember where I heard about it...I just keep adding more and more books to that list. And I liked Middlesex when I read it, a couple of years ago. 4 demonlover It keeps confusing me when I see people mentionn Ill Wind! A few years ...

... are the ones I hope to get to soon. And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave Elantris by Brandon Sanderson Geek Love by Katherine Dunn Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Specials ...

Little, Big and Geek Love.

... til September and I already have a large pile of books I really really want to read, but can't, staring at me). Novels: Geek Love, A Fictional History of the United States, Operation Red Jericho, Moral Disorder, The One from the Other, and The Last of the Red Hot Poppas. Nonfiction ...

I sent off Geek Love by Katherine Dunn today, and I sent for My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir. I am still waiting for In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon and the sender wrote he was delayed putting it in the mail due to a trip to Disneyland. Has anyone else succumbed ...

i thought this was a very well written book. however, im still not sure how i feel about the content. What is Dunn saying about disability. what affect does this book have on communities who don't fully understand what it means to have a disability. my first thought was that Dunn was doing a ...